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...week's start Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt announced that his commission had drawn up another plan-this time for occupational deferment, which would go into effect "soon." Details were vague. He also gave a routine plug for the enactment of a National Service Act, providing for compulsory service for all citizens. Details of this were vague...
...committee that the manpower crisis would be grave between December and February, and that with enough funds the Selective Service could handily handle the whole problem. His chief, Major General Lewis B. Hershey, had made this warning many times, usually while giving the back of his hand to Mr. McNutt...
Next day Mr. McNutt "froze" manpower in the dairy, livestock and poultry industries, and sent a directive to Selective Service to send a directive to local draft boards to defer all such farm workers. (Week before the Tolan committee noted the testimony of General Hershey: "Of course, the local boards need not pay any attention to 99% of the things which we send out. It is a good thing they do not have...
...McNutt's Black Hallowe'en. Next day the New York Times headlined: MANPOWER MOVES BY MCNUTT ARE HIT FROM THREE SIDES. What made this really newsworthy was that one of the main groups crunching Mr. McNutt was the Manpower Commission's own main policy-making body, a committee of labor and industry spokesmen. The committee was now in revolt against McNutt's pressure for a compulsory service law. Boss McNutt had already said that he deemed this group to be merely "advisory...
...unsolved fundamental in the war effort is, as everyone knows, manpower. The President conferred with his silver-haired Manpower Commissioner, Paul Vories McNutt. At a press conference the President speculated long and earnestly on the situation, pointing to the big batch of letters and telegrams he had received on farm labor shortages (see p. 22), suggesting that it might be wise for the Army to furlough some of its 35 -to -45 year-olds for work in factory and field. Forthwith, the Army began to furlough 4,000 miners to go back to copper, lead and zinc fields...