Word: slackers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, World War I's slick slacker, lashed himself into an offensive fury. The butler on his Downington (Pa.) estate told police all about it: when he demanded $150 in back pay, fat, 52-year-old Bergdoll gave him a quick sock in the head, then grabbed a shotgun. "I'll shoot you down like a dog," said Bergdoll. Wife Berta Bergdoll stepped in, ruled out a shooting war, let it go to law. The butler's charge: assault & battery and pointing of firearms...
Other G.I.s demonstrated in Honolulu. In Paris several hundred paraded down the Champs Elysées waving magnesium flares and yelling "scab" and "slacker" at soldiers who declined to join the mob. In London 500 soldiers met in Grosvenor Square. When a sergeant bellowed: "Do you know who we got on this side [of the Atlantic]?" they roared back: "Eleanor!" A delegation marched to Claridge's Hotel, where Eleanor Roosevelt had arrived for the UNO conference, and demanded that she help them. They said she promised...
Bricklayer Stanley Jamrozy, 38, obdurately refused to work in the Apriority industry to which Canada's National Selective Service bosses assigned him. Instead he got a job on a tobacco farm. In Oshawa, Ont., he was fined $25 as a slacker...
...Fighter. In Belleville, lII., husky (6 ft., 180 Ib.) Edwin Taylor, 4-F because of poor vision, put the blitz on four sol diers who taunted him as a slacker. The results : two in the hospital, one runaway, one crawlaway...
Against the millions of men called up, there have been so far only 6,036 convictions for draft evasions in World War II. By quiet prowling, without the public emotionalism of "slacker raids," the FBI has quietly nudged some 200,000 other delinquents into uniform...