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Rail Union Advocates
Longer Work Week
In Critical Industries
Suggests Possibility Of
Sc Hours; Monpower
Report to President
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not been as effective as he would
like them to be. He said he had re-
ceived widespread complaints that
the directives we're not being fol-
lowed.
The committee is reported to have
taken the position that occupational
deferment machinery must be in
tergrated into a unified system and
that this could be had by placing
the Manpower Commission in COM
plete authority inasmuch as it has
the responsibility for directive COM
pliance.
It has reported that the committee
recommended cessation of voluntary
enlistments and that training in
schools and colleges be co-ordinated
under the commission. This means
that in the event authority Is granted
that training of students in all in
stitutions of higher learning, which
is now under military supervision,
would be directed by the VINO.
Informed sources say the commit
tee had recommended that the Man
power Commission be given recog-
milton by the chiefs of staff and
lease lend authorities to obtain mill
tary and lease-lend estimates of
manpower requirements.
Mobilization Demanded.
Meantime, new demand for
compulsory manpower mobilization
came from Senator Hill, Democrat, of
Alabama and DR.. Frank Leahy, chief
OF the Procurement and Assignment
Service of the commission, sketched
for the Senate Education and Labor
Committee a picture of a Nation
striving for utilization of its human
resources under guess work" sys-
tenn lacking coordination and au-
thority.
The former president Of the Amer
lean Medical Association placed the
blame for a shortage OF doctors In
some sections Of the country on
the appeal Of patriotism and the
pressure Of wartime public opinion.
In many areas too many doctors
were volunteering, he said. In order
to keep them in their home COM
munity there should be some way
whereby responsibility for the de-
cision would be taken off the indi-
vidual physician"
The statement of the railway as
ISOLATION asserted that the organi-
zation was opposed to freezing"
any worker in his job. 1T is unnec-
essary," the statement continued.
land will destroy production, wipe
out free labor and inevitably result
in abandoning our system OF free
enterprise, ideals of human freedom
and democratic processes"
12-Point Program Presented.
The organization did not ampIfy
its proposal for an increase in work
week hours. This was part of a r.
point program which would meet,
the statement said, "our national
requirements without resorting to
compulsion. The proposals include:
ITO extent military manpower
needs will permit, Immediately and
indefinitely defer from military
service all workers IS years of age
and over who are engaged in critical
war industries, services and agri-
cultural production. Make tenn
porary deferment of all such work.
ers under IS years of age who are
presently liable for military services
and provide plans for quick and Ger
tain requirements and release Of
these workers for military services"
The association also suggested an
inventory OF the Nations human
resources and prompt determination
of manpower requirements of the
military establishments, occupa-
tional deferments, labor turnover
regulations and a cessation of "busi-
ness as usual" policies.