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...Portland, Henry Kaiser's burgeoning shipyards hired so many workers that department stores have taken quarter-page ads for clerks; the draft takes 1,000 men a month from Kaiser's yards. Last week, impatient of waiting for Washington to act, Kaiser set up his own manpower system, went to New York City (whose 400,000 unemployed are one of the few real labor pools left in the U.S.), signed up 4,000 men in three days, shipped them across the continent...
...Detroit, the auto industry's new war plants have no shortage yet, expect to lose soon about half the men now deferred by draft boards-just at a time when Michigan factories, newly tooled up, will need 290,000 new workmen by June. The U.S. Employment Service, searching through draft files for skilled workers in civilian-industry jobs, has talked only an "infinitesimal" number into changing to war plants...
...Manpower is just around the corner. The nation has let experienced farm hands follow the lure of higher wages to the cities, to become rank apprentices at a new trade. It has let draft boards pluck skilled and infinitely precious war workers from industry. It has let the Navy's busy recruiting trucks roam the nation, picking and choosing, skimming off the cream of American manpower with hardly a thought to national policy. Now the month of crisis is at hand...
...ersatz, that he has authority to make policy but none to carry it out, that in all Washington there is hardly a man willing to lift a finger to give him that power. He cannot yet give orders to any worker. The nation's 6,500 independent draft boards take men without a thought to WMC. All McNutt can do is persuade Major General Lewis B. Hershey, National Director of Selective Service, to issue directives-which the boards can then blithely ignore...
...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 yet for giving him similar power over...