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Backed by a blunt Naval edict, West Coast shipyards began summarily discharging loafers last week, asked draft boards to speed their induction into the Army, sent their names to U.S. Employment Service for the blacklist...
...Washington agrees that copper is one war industry whose wages (87.5? an hour) are too low to compete successfully for labor. Half a dozen agencies have plans to do something about it. The War Manpower Commission is talking about giving copper miners extra special draft deferment; and last week there was new and stronger talk of closing U.S. gold mines and diverting their workers to base metals...
Perceiving their unique position as pacifists in a war-torn world, the men plan to record their reactions and opinions for future reference. Members are to contribute essays, articles, and copies of their filled-out draft forms to build up a collection which will be bound and placed in the Widener archives...
According to the Hutchins plan, this manpower reservoir would pursue a liberal arts course for two years and then branch out into more specialized training. Those who had not maintained a minimum standard would then be subject to immediate draft, he said...
...between the belief in progress, characteristic of the last century, and a slowing down in the actual advances of the world. This divergence of ideals and realities has led to four marked crises; crises of democracy, of self-determination, of economic affairs, and of ethics. The author does not draft a new faith to close the gap, but he does indicate some of its necessary aspects, such as an emphasis on obligations rather than rights, and a centering of economic life around the consumer, not the producer...