Evening star., 1943-02-13
G|amor Injected
In Campaign for
War Workers
Show Methods to Be
Used; 48-Hour Week
Rules Nearly Ready

AS War Manpower Commission
attorneys claimed they had al
most completed drafting regula-
tionS governing the 48-hour work :
week, the commission moved to-
day to place in effect a plan to
inject glamor into the program
to get men and women out of
nom essential work into war
plants.
Show business personalities and
media will be used by the VINO,
said Philip S. Broughton, informa-
ton director. to put over the man.
power recruiting campaign in vari-
Gus industrial cities early in March.
Actresses like Helen Hayes and
Betty Davis, Mr. BrOughton said,
will be engaged to stress the I'M
portance of war work.
He said Baltimore had been Sc
lected to start the program and the
campaign there would be centered
on obtaining women for industries
in and around that city. The pro-
gram for the District has not yet
been completed it was said.
Idea Is Explained.
The Get a War job" local drive,
it was explained. will be supervised
jointly by the VINO, the Office of
War Information and a committee
of Government and show business
representatives The idea is to use
local newspapers, radio stations and
nationally known theater and radio
performers in each industrial COM
munity where there is a manpower
shortage
No campaign is planned on
national basis. but WINGS head
quarters here will provide materiA
such as posters, pamphlets and radio
scripts to be used locally, Mr..
Broughton declared.
Each local campaign will be OF
a weeks duration, and the activ-
tiles in each city will be climaxed
with huge show at which cit
izens will be urged to visit the
Offices of the United States En-
ployment Service and sign up for
war jobs. Non-employed women
and all people holding jobs not
classified as essential will be par
tlcularly sought, it was said.
Until the 48-hour work week reg
ulations are issued, VINO officials
explained, the commission will not
be able to give definite or authori-
tatlve answers to the score of oues-
| tlons which are being asked by
employers in t1e 80 areas in which
the order will become effective first,
Task Complicated.
Regulations drafters said their
task is being complicated by the
great diversity of business firms and
operating schedules within a city.
1t was pointed out that the Presi-
dents order was aimed principally
at manufacturing plants in which
most of the workers are being paid
by the hour and work in regular
shifts.
But. they said, it also applies TO
hotels, laundries, retail stores. news
papers, railroad Offices and countless
other establishments, which have
salaried employees, irregular shifts
and small specialized groups of
workers Official said they have
found out that many of these estab-
lishments have their own peculiar
problems and. because of them, are
uncertain about what is expected of
them.
They said the regulations will cover
as many of these problems as pos
sible.
Some VINO regional directors are
urging industries to voluntarily adopt
the 48-hour week at once, saying it
would become mandatory in many
of the critical shortage areas by
July l. Louis B. F. Raycroft, re-
gional director for Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, declared that Philadel-
phia would need 10000 additional
workers by midsummer. and I'VE will
continuously attempt to squeeze as
many men out of less essential in
dustries as possible"