there are a hundred million of us men and women of working and i think i need to fight this war ten million more people must go to work by the end of nineteen forty three before the war half of us work the other fifty million kept house went to school played or look forward to the day employment offices are deserted for every machinist available for example twenty two are needed  to workers here rumors of high paying jobs fail to ask what skills are required and rush to critical areas uprooted homeless they are an added problem places to live are so scarce that men sleeping ships in what are hotbeds plain late such confusion will not speed up war industry we are going to have ourselves for this war we set up an agency headed by paul vi mcnutt one of my first steps as chairman of the war manpower army experts decide that such production centers have a new labor sources to run cover before calling in migrants businesses labor and government meet union delegates plans to curtail job switching among there is no time to train men in skills that take years to develop manpower's next move is to list all non war enterprises which can be called upon to give up skilled workers the commissioner and farms a department store manager  and experience machinist breaks down his job so that parts can be handled by a new man the second phase of manpower is program is to find and train people for the millions of jobs that do not demand long time skill especially affected areas learn in a month or six weeks a man can go to work as a welder on ships tanks gun at the beginning of the war ten million were working in war towns all over the united states women are called upon to leave their homes and take jobs among our young unmarried women and among older women whose children are grown we have a large reserve they discover that factory work is usually no more difficult than housework employers find that women can do many jobs as well as men some jobs better training schools are open for women is an aircraft are aircraft being added as fast as they apply this solves the breadwinning problem for many families whose men are at war the government's policy is that women should get the same pay that men get or similar work to take back the job the army assures them this will not necessarily affect the draft status of their husbands long as they're maintaining a bonafide family relationship in the home by the end of nineteen forty three one out of every three women will be at work when married women with small children have to take jobs everything possible will be done to provide care for the children in the meantime as men are brought in from the farms into our armed forces america's youth finds its place in the war effort that's the manpower commission utilizes a voluntary means to organize our entire population for war but we've already indicated through a national poll that we willing to have such a program enforced by law today a vast network of government employment agencies act as our war manpower clearinghouse if you are retired your local u s employment office may arrange to train you for work right in your own community should you be physically handicapped you will find your country is making special efforts to adapt your abilities forty five hundred local offices of the united states employment service guiding us to our places in the war effort don't move around on your old consult a government agency first if you are a woman who has never worked you will find crosses ready for you prepare and know you will be needed by the end of nineteen forty three with every muscle only at that point can we say that all work is