Evening star., 1943-03-07
Orders 10 Defer
Farm Workers
Issued by VINO
Drafting Will Stop
Even II Quotes
Are Not Filled
D. HE Assoeiatad Prsss.

~ tNS A&1O0Aet90 EIV3S
The War Manpower Commis-
sion told local draft boards last
night to keep farm workers in
deferred classifications-even II
the quotas for the armed forces
cannot then be met.
The commission also issued three
other new instructions designed to
help meet the farm labor shortage:
l. Any man with farming experi-
ence who Is now in other work
should be classified Is farm-deferred
(class &c or SCI II he goes back
to agriculture as . regular job be.
fore notified to appear for induce
ton.
2. State and county war boards Of
the Agriculture Department may re-
quest the deferment Of 4 necessary
farm workers even though the
worker himself or his employer do
not seek the deferment. The boards
also may appeal from decisions Of
local draft boards.
3. II draft board finds that .
farm worker IS not producing enough
to justify his deferment 1t must re-
fer his case to county war bnard
and allow 80 days for him to be
placed in another job before It can
draft him.
Output Formulas Prepared.
TO gain draft deferment 1 farm
worker y required to prou,lc. .
minimum output fixed By formulas
prepared by the Agriculture Depart-
mez1t. Cases Of workers failing to
meet these requirements heretofore
have been referred 10 tn United
States Employment Service. Tho
new order Is designed 70 give local
farm boards greater iniiuence..
Meanwhile :. H1ase appropriations
subcommittee slashed By morn than
50 per cent the funds sought BY tie
Agriculture Department to recruit
farm labor. The action was aimed
not at the recruiting program Itself
but was designed to hiring the ad-
ministration's program more in Line
with congressional views.
The VINO issued this memoran-
dunn to draft boards:
Having mAde - decision that IN
individual n Sr1nt h necessary TO
ana resular IA n asrcul-
tural occtpAEon u endeavor e.
sential to tn ~. eRrrt ~ local
board has no further discretion and
mus Aefer the re6iltS6lnt. !;
M desire to iaeet c1lIa ~ man@
power should IA any manner inS
flueace the local boards -d6eisicE
Calls which cannot Be met without
taking resistrants considered ne
cessary to and regularly engaged IN
agricultural occupations or en-
deayors essential to the war effort
should be left unified" q
81, - Reelassihed.
The Selective Service Bureau said
nearly 100000 farm workers. hA0
been placed In &c and sc IN re-
cent weeks. Approximately III 100
were transferred to those classes ID
January alone.
oyer half of these men, had
they not been transferred. would
in all probability have been induct-.
ed into the armed forces. deprivtng
agriculture Of their services, Selec-
tive Service said.
It estimated that more than 81.
0O0,O 600 farm workers will have re.
ceiyed agricultural deferment By
the end OF this year. Some S,50e
farm workers are being reclassaf3ed
daily into deferred status.
The House Committees action
followed hearings on the Aericul-
ture Department program for re-
cruiting farm workers chiefly
through the Farm Security Admin.
istration.
The department wanted $65 ,Oo0, 900
to recruit and transport labor to
farms. OF this, 90, 900 900 would have
been allocated TO the Agriculture