Word: conscripts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just how much previous military or technical experience will aid the conscript when called to arms is one of the major problems presented by the Selective Service Act. It touches college directly in determining the worth of the Student Defense League's proposed training program...
...increased from 26 to 30 shillings for man & wife, from 35 to 41 shillings threepence for a family of five. A new wage scale and more liberal workmen's compensation rates had been obtained. Labor also took credit for the Emergency Powers Bill granting the Government power to conscript property...
Rent. Since the U. S. can allot a conscript's pay for rent of his dependents, most real-estaters see only the rosy side of the draft picture-many pre-conscription marriages. But if a rent payer is drafted, a War Department bill now in Congress says his dependents cannot be evicted (if his rent is $80 monthly, or less) for at least three months...
...Nobody can pay a forfeit to escape the draft, pay a substitute to serve for him, or buy his way out once he is in service. Nor can the U. S. offer special bounties to any conscript or volunteer. Reason: the Army's doleful experiences with bounties, substitutes, and attendant corruption in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars...
...After a conscript or one-year volunteer has had his twelve months of training, his employer must give him back his old job "unless the employer's circumstances have so changed as to make it impossible or unreasonable to do so." Returning trainees who are not rehired can appeal to U. S. district courts, get the free services of Federal attorneys. Net effect of this provision: draftees will have to depend more on the prosperity, good will and patriotism of their employers than on the expressed (but weakly implemented) good will of the U. S. Government...