Evening star., 1942-09-13
New Hershey Order
Puts Teeth in McNut
Job-Quitting Ban
Deferred Men Foce Call
If Director Finds Failure
To Support War Effort

To Support War Effort
Deferred draft registrants now
face induction whenever the selec-
tive service director considers they
are not supporting or are adversely
affecting the war effort or the ma
tional health, safety or interest. ;"
This policy is authorized In an
amendment to the selective service
regulations ordered yesterday by Sc
lective Service Director Lewis B.
Hershey.
Draft officials explained that the
amendment, which became effective
with its publication yesterday in the
Federal Register, enabled Gen. Her
shey to send out a directive to local
boards in the IL States recently de-
clared a critical area" by War Man
power Chairman Paul v. McNutt.
Already sent out to local boards
IN the II States, the directive, 1t was
understood, informs the local boards
that deferred loggers and miners of
non-ferrous metals who quit these
activities for other jobs should have
their classification changed.
Under the former regulations. 1t
was explained, the matter of clas-
siflcation rested strictly with the
local boards and not with the selec-
tive service director.
Teeth for job Quitting Ban.
The virtual threat of induction
was considered a method of putting
teeth into the War Manpower Com
MISSIONS ban on unrestricted job
quitting in the lumber and non
ferrous metals industries.
Without legislation of its own to
enforce the ban, the Manpower
Commission has already announced
1t would ask all affected agencies,
Including the procurement agencies
which deal with war plants, to do
what they could to cooperate in
Keeping loggers and miners on their
Jobs.
Presumably. Gen. Hershey would
use his new authority wherever
the Manpower Commission set up a
"critical area" or an area where
shortages of certain labor due to
labor piracy and other causes be-
came acute.
& A draft official emphasized that
the directive to the local boards in
the II affected States did not specify
that the men had to stay on a
particular job to keep their de-
ferred status, but in the same
activity.
Could Cover Job Change.
The amendment can be inter-
preted to cover movement from job
to job, it was stated, because local
board could decide logger was ad-
versely affecting the national inter-
est If he left an activity in which
there Is already shortage serious
enough to affect the flow of raw
materials into war factories.
Under the War Manpower Com
mission ban, man may leave one
OF the industries under the ban only
II he has certificate of separation
from the United States Employment
Service. If he had such. a certifi-
cate, the draft spokesman said, it
could be considered concrete evi-
dence that he had good reason for
changing jobs and his deferred
status might not be affected.
Many of the deferred men af-
fected by the order also are deferred
because of dependency. In that
case, the draft spokesman said their
classification would be changed
from 3-B to ga, stepping up their
chances of induction since 3-B men
are the last of the dependency group
to be called.
McNutt to Visit Coast.
The wording Of Gen. Hersheys
new section OF the regulations
follows:
whenever the Director of Selec-
tive Service advises a local board
that a deferred registrant or group
of deferred registrants is not sup
porting or is adversely affecting the
war effort or the national health
safety or interest, the local board
shall Immediately terminate the de-
ferment and consider anew the
classification of such registrant OF
registrants."
There was other evidence today o1
the Governments concern over the
manpower question. Mr.. McNutt
disclosed he would visit the West
Coast in about month to check the
effectiveness of the ban on unre-
stricted job-quitting and also to gel
q closeup view of the Vests man.
power situation generally.
Legislation May Be Asked.
Informed sources said the ban, af
fecting upward of 100000 workers ir
the IL Western States, would tes
whether wartime job stabilizatior
can be achieved without Legislation
authorizing the Government to des.
ignate what work everyone shall do
Some even predicted that legisla'
tion giving the Government full job
control would be sought eventual,
in any case because of an increas
ingly critical manpower shortage il
essential war work.
These persons pointed out that il
agriculture, where greater produc
ton is being sought and labor short
ages are becoming acute, there is in
sufficient organization to make ef
fective manpower commission or
der such as was issued in the mine
and logger case.
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