Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor faced the wartime loss of the most basic of all its economic rights-the right to quit a job and go to work elsewhere. The McNutt Manpower Mobilization Board put on its fright wig last week and announced that war workers were going to have to stay put. would have to quit changing jobs to get higher wages in other labor-short war plants. The Board's reason: pirating of workers by manufacturers who offer higher pay impedes production and upsets wage scales which the Government is trying to stabilize...
...McNutt announcement blocking labor's right to change jobs seemed a little too tough and too sudden to other Washington officials. By week's end there were some hasty assurances that it would not happen yet, that the announcement was premature. It would happen though, observers were certain, if the labor shortage became acute...
...Probably WLB's Davis, OPA's Henderson, Labor Department's Perkins, Manpower Commission's McNutt...
...McNutt's Manpower Administration, newcomer to the War Cabinet, is potentially the biggest bureau of all. When things get bad enough, it will in effect give every citizen a number and tell him where to work...
After Repeal, when Asher broke with Paul V. McNutt's local politicians, his noisy cafe, the "Wig-Warn," lost its liquor license. When HOLC foreclosed on him, he broke with Roosevelt and started X-Ray ("A Beacon for Taxpayers and Honest Labor"). In its five years its circulation has wavered between...