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Nobody paid much attention to a report four weeks ago by the House Tolan Committee urging a single high economic commander with full power to coordinate supply (Donald Nelson's job), manpower (Paul McNutt) and economic stabilization (James F. Byrnes). Nor did bills to set up the command, quietly dropped into Senate and House hoppers, set Capitol Hill or the Administration on fire...
...last week a little group of Congressmen got together to crusade for their idea. Joining forces were Harry S. Truman and Harley M. Kilgore (of the Senate's Truman Investigating Committee), John H. Tolan (of the House's Tolan Investigating Committee), James E. Murray (Senate Small Business Committee) and Claude Pepper (Senate Labor Committee). New Dealers all, they went ahead this time without White House approval. Said they: "In eight months this war can be won if we tackle now a resolute overhauling of the war-production machine...
...Washington last week one of the prettiest displays of conflicting statements and general-refusal-to-face-facts in quite a few weeks. They centered in the grave problem of a coming "shortage" of U.S. manpower. (The problem, as the Tolan Congressional committee had indicated, was partly a shortage of U.S. brainpower in using the available manpower. But there was abundant evidence of genuine shortages...
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...
...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 yet for giving him similar power over all American workers...