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...paid by the amount of coal dug often cannot earn county minimum wages while working bad seams. With the war, thousands of Britain's 700,000 coal miners have left their noxious slums and dismal wages for better-paying defense jobs or the fighting services (the draft and volunteer rate has been 25,000 a year). Among those who remain, strikes have been constant, the Mineworkers' Federation (union) demanding a national minimum weekly wage of $17, an average increase...
This emergency plan is only for these who are about to be caught in the draft. For these who have already received notification of their induction date, Perkins admits he can do little, but says it is up to the local draft board...
Actor Ladd, 24, is Paramount's other male find of the wartime season. Like his studio mate, he is also 1-A in the draft...
...young Carey moved into his first Broadway role as Gertrude Lawrence's leading man in Lady in the Dark. Paramount, which had previously tested and rejected him, took him when it bought the play. Now it can do nothing but weep over its new find. His draft rating...
...President, the U.S. Office of Education and Paul McNutt's War Manpower Commission were deeply concerned last week because a quarter of a million men, physically fit, had been rejected for illiteracy, lack of education, low mentality. Draft boards had turned up 177,000 more who did not know whether a boat would float in water, but who were not physically fit, either. Largest group of ignoramuses were neither aliens nor Negroes, but native whites...