Evening star., 1943-04-19
McNutt Will Modify
Job Controls 10 Allow
Further Transfers
Appeal Rights Will Be
Extended to Areas Not
Covered Originally

War Manpower Commissioner
Paul V. McNutt disclosed today
that his job-Wage control order
would be modified to permit es-
sential workers to take higher
paying jobs with new employers
anywhere in the country, pro-
vided the VINO first approves.
The original order made effective
yesterday, made no provision for
such job transfers outside the go
areas where the VINO has put en-
ployment stabilization plans into
effect.
The notifications, Mr.. McNutt
told press conference, will author
ize United States Employment Serv-
ice offices outside these areas to
approve such transfers just as Offices
in those areas may do under the
original order.
The interim instructions, which
will stay in effect until the areas
go on stabilization plan, will con-
sist mainly of giving workers who
want to transfer the right to get
a statement of availability" and to
appeal to their local United States
Employment Office.
Gives Workers Equal Rights.
In some regions in the country
he said, regional stabilization plans
will go into effect until area plans
are perfected. The interim instruc-
tions, Mr.. McNutt explained, will
give individuals who feel they have
a legitimate right to transfer to
h1gher-paylng jobs the same rights
as workers in areas covered by
stabilization plans.
This is the first contemplated re-
vision Of the new regulation that
has been announced. In the regu-
latlon. it was provided that workers
in essential activities could not
transfer to other essential activities
in areas not on stabilization plan
II it meant an increase in wages.
In areas under stabilization plan
workers can make a transfer re-
gardless of a wage increase if they
can get statement of available
lty." They get this statement from
their former employer or from a
| VINO representative if they are dis
charged, laid off or can establish
that their present job does not
utilize their full skill. Under the
. interim instructions, workers in spe-
clal cases would have the same right
In areas not on stabilization plan
that workers have in areas on the
plan, it was explained.
Provides Temporary Procedure.
Mr.. McNutt told his press con-
ference today of the contemplated
interim instructions after number
of Hardship" cases were cited by
reporters.
The interim instructions were de-
scribed as temporary way to handle
cases until stabilization plans, which
Mr.. McNutt hopes to make Nation
wide, can go into effect. At present,
80 areas have stabilization plans.
When Mr.. McNutt was asked how
he squared" what he described as
voluntary program with provisions
| for criminal prosecution, he said
that the voluntary part was the
stabilization agreement, but that the
statutory provisions had been in
serted ito accomplish the purpose
OF the Presidents order"
Praises News Stories.
Asked about the failure of his
labor -management-ag pol
icy committee to approve the new
regulation, he said:
THE policy was set by the Presi-
dents order. I am responsible for
carrying out that policy. 1t is not
a matter for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
agriculture committee to decide"
Mr.. McNutt admitted that the
Presidents order did not specify
the controls he has placed on the
transfer of workers but "the order
certainly indicated It,"
Mr.. McNutt commended the
newspaper reporters for their cover
age Of what he admitted was a diff
cult story. He referred to the an
nouncement of the new regulations
| which appeared in SUNDAYS y,anere