Evening star., 1943-03-01
McNuh Denies Need
For Manpower Draft
Urged by Stimson
Defends Voluntary Plan;
Says He Will Garry On
Although Refused Funds
FATHERS BEING DRAFTED, NC
Mutt says; selective service ban
denied. Page B-1
BY JESSE o. IRWIN.

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Mutt says; selective service ban
denied. Page B-1
BY JESSE o. IRWIN.
Manpower Chairman McNutt
took issue today with Secretary
Of War Stimson by declaring en-
phatically that national service
legislation to get more men and
women into war work is not
needed at this time.
II think my own position is clear"
Mr. McNutt declared The Man
power Commission is determined to
try out the voluntary method and
will, with all sincerity, attempt to
make it work"
I'm time of war, however, any
thing can happen he added.
Mr.. McNutt said he did not care
to get into a controversy with Mr..
Stimson. The War Secretary, in
letter last week to the Senate Mill
tary Affairs Committee, expressed
his personal views that the Austin
Wadsworth national war service
bill should be enacted because of
the chaotic condition of the man
power situation.
Voluntary Plan Defended.
Mr.. McNutt pointed out that the
commission had not as yet COM
mented on the Austin Wadsworth
bill and that when the commission
does its views will be sent to the
committee through the Budget
Bureau. He pointed out that Mr.
Stimson, in expressing his personal
views, did not have to clear through
the regular channels.
The manpower chief said he
thought his voluntary plans were
working very satisfactorily" and
cited Louisville, KY, as an example
A labor stabilization plan has been
in effect there for two months and
according to Mr.. McNutt, labor
turnover there has been reduced by
so per cent.
People respond when they are
asked to do so, particularly in time
of war" Mr.. McNutt said.
Mr.. McNutt said he would be able
to carry on his voluntary program
despite refusal by Congress to grant
him funds to make the United
States Employment Service more
efficient.
Funds Refused Third Time.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee last week, for the third time
during this fiscal year, refused Mr..
McNutt funds to raise the salaries
OF employment service employees.
The House approved the committees
stand in passing a deficiency appro-
priation bill.
Mr.. McNutt said he sought this
fund because he wanted to attract
into the employment service more
efficient workers.
He added that those now work.
Ing in the service were efficient and
that 1t was unfair to these people
to ask them to work for the Fed
eral Government at a lower wage
scale" Mr.. McNutt explained that
a raise In salary would act as a
morale builder and that the lack
of funds for this purpose would
retard the overall manpower effort.
We'll do the best we can with
what we have" he concluded.
Saturday Deputy VINO Chairman
Fowler v. Harper said that if war
production was delayed by an in
efficient United States Employment
Service the responsibility would not
be that of Mr.. McNutt's but would
belong to Congress. Mr.. Harper
said he was expressing his personal
views.
Meanwhile, an official ruling as
to whether work-hour restriction
clauses in management-la con-
tracts are abrogated by the Presi-
dents 48-hour work week order and
the regulations promulgated by
VINO was expected today to be for
mulgated soon by the WINGS legal
department..
Bernard Gavit, the commissions s
general counsel and dean of law at
Indiana University, in an extempora-
neous opinion, has held that the
courts probably would hold that
where Government regulations step
(See MANPOWER, Page A-4J