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...Harvard Liberal Union last night advocated the immediate lowering of the draft age to 18, in a meeting which also featured the election of a new executive council...
Quotas and Human Nature. In the past even though guided by a 150-page book of regulations and countless mimeographed releases from headquarters, the 6,443 local draft boards have interpreted the law 6,443 different ways. This week's directive still left much to the discretion of draft boards, and inequalities are still bound to crop...
...away on ice until after the Democrats have won the November elections is the final draft of a National Service Act that will give Paul V. McNutt's Manpower Commission power to cope with "labor emergencies" akin to the powers now held by the British Government...
...British laws (which the British are still chary of invoking) give the Government power to 1) draft both men & women from 18 to 51 for war industry-either from other jobs or from their homes, 2) keep every essential worker at his job, 3) move workers from their homes to sections where labor shortages are acute, 4) forbid employers to dismiss essential workers, 5) force employers to hire through Government agencies. The U.S. bill is slightly milder, but Government officials admit that it will give McNutt "distributory control over the labor supply" and "power to freeze labor...
This week the Commission is setting up local joint committees in 64 key industrial centers to harmonize the conflicting demands of local industry and the draft boards; and to get labor, management and the Government to work out a local manpower program on a less platitudinous basis than the Commission's eight hopeful but toothless "directives" have yet achieved...