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Woodrow Wilson set up a National War Labor Board to serve much the same purpose. It had no more authority than the present board. President Wilson backed it up with a threat to take over recalcitrant companies, withdraw draft exemptions from stubborn workers. In two instances the U. S. Government actually took over corporations (the telegraph companies, Smith & Wesson). On one occasion Wilson sent the organized machinists of Bridgeport scuttling back to their jobs with Wilsonian words that Mr. Roosevelt may have pondered: "I desire that you return to work. ... If you refuse, each of you will be barred from...
...draft law has its faults. Biggest trouble is that the law is a wartime statute, put to pre-war use. Its pool of 17,000,000 registered men is unnecessarily large, will soon be bogged with middle-aged registrants. Men who were 35 when they registered last October remain technically subject to the draft until May 15, 1945. Yet the law has no adequate provision for taking in the 1,250,000 young men who turn 21 each year...
Last week the father of the present law concocted a remedy for these defects. He was Brigadier General Lewis Elaine Hershey, acting draft administrator, whose civilian chief, Dr. Clarence Dykstra, resigned last week to join the President's new National Defense Mediation Board (see p. 14). General Hershey proposed to narrow draft registration limits (now 21-35), conscript only men between 18 and 23. He would also let the trainees in the new age brackets choose the year when they would serve. Many Congressmen would like to correct the law now. But General Hershey would put off making...
Next day ten women volunteered in London, 189 in Newcastle. A Women's Consultative Committee, appointed by Big Ernie in the expectation that they would throw feminine weight benind his labor draft, pounced on the Labor Minister instead. They said he was using the wrong method, should have appealed to women emotionally instead of giving them orders and regulations. To reporters, hulking Ernest Bevin said in sonorous nasals: "It don't do anybody any 'arm to work a little...
...Detroit figured out a way of supplementing the National Roster's approach. They were members of the Engineering Society of Detroit, which is an engineers' clearinghouse affiliated with the local sections of 16 national technical societies, from ceramists to welders. They had several fears: 1) the draft might get too many technicians; 2) private pirating might disrupt defense work (as it has); 3) if industry fails to get full efficiency out of its engineers, the Government might commandeer everybody's specialists. To work out an orderly procedure for getting the right brains into the right spot...