Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-02
Mcclellan Accepts
Hi||man Central. Job
Recruiting Proposal
Abolition of N. Y. A.
Not Meant, W. P. B.
Labor Director Insists

Sidney Hillman, labor director
of the War Production Board,
told the Senate Labor Commit
tee today that since the National
Youth Administration had fur
niShed IAN appreciate part OF
our trained man power" for war
work and was going concern"
that should not be abandoned.
1.-THE man power training program
cannot afford the delay which will
result If we slow down or stop one
of our training agencies and transfer
the important load 1t carries to an
other organization" he said.
He did urge centralized control
of recruiting and placing" workers
for war industries without abolishing
the agencies that help in the train
ing, however.
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat, of
Tennessee, author of the pending
bill to abolish N. Y. A. and transfer
its vocational training to the ONCE
of Education, promptly embraced
Mr.. Hillman's suggestion a 900 per
cent"
NY. A. Abolition Not Meant.
Mr.. Hillman insisted, under cross
examination, however, his recon-
mendation did not contemplate
abolishing N. Y. A. or the United
States Employment Service, but
merely giving the Labor Division OF
w. P. B. or some other one agency
the power by executive order or
legislation to direct the activities Of
various agencies.
Mr.. Hillman said 17,72o N. Y. A.
trained workers had gone into
private industry last month alone,
most of them into war plants.
Two million men have been added
to the assembly lines in war indus
tries since the attack on Pearl Har-
Dor. and 100000 more workers will
be needed before the end of 1912, he
adde.
Counting those hired since Pearl
Harbor, 100000 are now at work in
war industries, Mr.. Hillman testi-
fed.
Weston Also Opposes.
The Mcclellan bill also was op-
posed by S. Burns Weston, director
of the National Advisory Commit
tee of the N. Y. A.
Mr.. Hillman said, Our labor sup
ply and training records reveal that
the production program has not
been held up for lack Of qualified
man power for war industry.
Indeed, the principal stumbling
block to the fullest utilization both
of our machines and of our workers
by means of around-the-c clock OPP
Grafton of our equipment-arises
from material shortages. Manage
ment and labor. as well as Govern
ment officials concerned, have recog-
nized this situation. and are seeking
to overcome it as rapidly as pos
sible"
There were growing indications,
meanwhile. that the Senate Appro-
priations Committee may be called
on to settle the fate of N. Y. A. and
". ". w., Wy ilAili6 oiiS o'Ao" Va
money to be allowed each agency
for the coming year.
Chairman Thomas has an
nounced the education and labor
group will suspend its hearings next
week and resume with more wit
nesses April 49,
Use of Tools Defended.
Aubrey Williams, N. Y. A. admin
istrator, testified yesterday that very
few of the machine tools used in
his agencys vocational training
shops are of types that might come
within the list of critical materials
for war production.
He also told the committee that
his Office. began a checkup of its
equipment in cooperation with the
War Department nearly month
before the issue was raised in the
newspapers. beginning March 81.
Mr.. Williams testified that on
February 20 N. Y. A. obtained list
of critical materials from the Ma
chine Tool Committee Of the Army
Ordnance Department, and q week