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Leader of the workers' holiday was rash, 30-year-old Harold J. Gibson (married, childless, draft classification 26), president of Seattle's Aero Mechanics' District Council. At week's end, A.F. of L. International officers cracked down on Gibson, warned that there must be no further work stoppage. At week's start the crisis passed. Instead of round-the-clock mass meetings, only a dozen officers of the district governing council sat around a table in Seattle's old Labor Temple. Loudspeakers in the Boeing plants broadcast union warnings to workers to stay...
Merchant sailors are automatically eligible for deferment from the draft, and can be sure of earning much more pay per month, once they have gone to sea, than buck privates. During the four month preliminary training period they will receive $50 a month, and once on a merchant ship basic pay, plus overtime, war bonuses, and harbor bonuses, adds up to well over one hundred dollars...
Meanwhile, at Radcliffe-glutted Harvard, vague rumblings were heard against the modern a draft-wolding female. Last week many a draft-anxious, Hanford-barried 'undergraduate sighed for the by-gone one of delicate feminiuity, wished mightily for a return to normaley in their traditional stamping ground...
...files of draft-dodging cases were growing mightily in the Department of Justice; but it was nothing to get excited about. One reason was that the induction rate was rising swiftly to 12,000 a day (roughly equal to the strength of one armored division). Another was that in the rush for men, Selective Service was now reporting the carelessly delinquent, along with those who really meant to refuse military service...
There was no indication that real draft dodging was on the rise. Selective Service figures last week showed that since the draft began only 11,730 real cases of draft dodging had been reported. In these, 4,023 dodgers were convicted, sent off to prison...