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...months of war Washington officials are at last calling for an effective use of manpower. Faced by the staggering problem of providing 13,000,000 additional persons for the war industries and the armed forces in 1942, and a further 6,000,000 in 1943, Chairman Paul V. McNutt of the War Manpower Commission has urged the adoption of a universal draft. His proposal calls for an act of Congress authorizing the government to allocate manpower wherever the need is greatest, whether it be on farms, in war plants or in the armed forces. In the past, all such proposals...
...hope that within the very near future certain recommendations will be made," McNutt said. "This whole problem has been the subject of very careful consideration for several months...
Between a speech at Omaha and a speech to the American Legion convention at Kansas City, Paul Vories McNutt returned to Washington to keep another speaking engagement with the House Committee on Defense Migration. Said Man-powerman McNutt to the committee: "It is my considered judgment, based on the best available knowledge of the manpower situation, that some type of national-service legislation is inevitable...
These glimmerings did not mean that the Government had adopted a consistent policy. The day before Paul McNutt asked for a national manpower law, Secretary of Labor Perkins, attending a Plumbers & Steam Fitters meeting in Cleveland, told reporters sharply: "I disagree that it is inevitable that Congress must enact legislation which will enable the War Manpower Commission to regulate the movement and assignment of workers in war industry...
Last week Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt said that 5,000,000 more women will be needed in war factories next year. Meanwhile old men help; children leave school. The Social Security Board reported that since Pearl Harbor, 24,000 men over 65 who had retired on Social Security had given up their pensions for the time being and gone back to work. Of the 825,000 men over 65 now eligible for Social Security, 70% have deferred their pensions and remained...