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...this merely deepens the gloom which has enveloped the whole manpower program. That issue has provoked a first-class jurisdictional battle which rages through Washington. The Department of Labor, the War Labor Board, and General Hershey's Selective Service Headquarters have been bickering ever since Pearl Harbor. Paul McNutt and his Manpower Commission sit idly on the sidelines, eager to go in as substitutes but lacking authority from the head coach. The fireside chat does not unravel this tangle. Still unanswered is the central question: Who is to decide when what workers go where...
...last fortnight has brought a promising new burst of activity in McNutt's air-conditioned offices. He worked out the voluntary freeze of Western miners and a similar plan for the Northwest lumber industry. He set up management-labor committees in cities where shortages are worst. He persuaded the Army & Navy to check with draft boards before accepting enlistments, and set up a drastic manpower plan for Government employes (who henceforth are subject to being moved to new jobs anywhere the Civil Service Commission sees fit). And before the House Tolan Committee, he made the strongest, clearest case...
...question is whether Americans like Paul McNutt, and American families like his, have the will to see a tough war through. Britain's will was prepared for the drafting of all war manpower by the shock of Dunkirk. In this war it may be that nations have the choice of steeling themselves to hard decisions in order to avoid disaster or being steeled when Dunkirks give them the willpower...
...McNutt succeeds in his job, WMC may-more than any economic theorists or post-war planners-set the shape of things to come for America. His problem is the problem of the Administration, of Congress, of the nation. All of them may go down to defeat unless they master the will to tackle the ugly, painful...
Whether or not the nation has manhandled its manpower, it is doing a smart job of mobilizing its boy-& -girl power. Last week Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt sent a directive clear-as-a-school-bell to the nation's 28,000 high schools: No boy or girl was left in doubt about his or her place in the war effort. The directive launched a High School Victory Corps, complete with uniform (a service cap) and specific military assignments. National chief of the Corps is popular Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. ace in the last war (26 planes) and head of Eastern...