Evening star., 1943-08-12
VINO 10 Promu|gate
New Jobs Program 10
Spur War Output

Drastic revision of the man.
power program-believed to be a
final effort to avert national
service legislation and to force
fathers into war industries-will
be announced here Sunday.
Amid growing indications that the
administration is leaning toward a
labor draft to solve the tangled man.
power problem in vital war indus
tries, the War Manpower Commits
sion has put the finishing touches
on a new program.
Here are its major provisions:
l. Extension of the nondeferrable
list to a large group of nonessential
occupations. Fathers who stay in
these jobs after the deadline about
mid-September will be subject to
the draft ahead of fathers in more
essential work.
New Job List Suggested.
2. Granting special consideration
for draft deferment to men on a
new list of critical jobs.
3. A revised program of controlled
hiring" channeling men in certain
critical occupations to the jobs
where they are needed most.
A. Revision of the job-wage freeze
to permit workers to change jobs for
higher pay where an employer is
paying less than the going rate"
This is in line with changes in War
Labor Board regulations.
While the program was being pre-
pared for announcement congress
sional protest against the drafting
of pre-war fathers broke out in an
other quarter. Senator Davis, Re-
publican, of Pennsylvania recon-
mended removal of the Selective
Service System from "the domina-
ton of the War Manpower Commits
sion," by restoring its independent
status, as one of six steps toward a
fair and efficient use of manpower.
Senator Davis described the order
for the induction of prewar fathers
after October l as ''one of the most
ill-considered, arbitrary and un-
necessary directives that has ever
emanated from Government
agency"
The new manpower program, re-
garded as the ultimate VINO move
short of a general labor draft, uses
selective service as a lever to force
draft eligibles into war industries by
setting up four draft classes on oc-
cupational lines.
AS far as occupations are con-
cerned, men whose jobs fall in the
new non-deferrable list will go be-
fore other men with the same de-
pendency claims. In other words, a
prewar father in a non -deferrable
job will go ahead Of a prewar father
who is not on the non-deferrable
list - unless the non -deferrable
father can claim extreme hardship
for dependents.
The second group are the men
whose jobs are not on the nom
deferrable list but also are not
considered essential After October
l, they would be called as their
order numbers are reached-but
after non -deferrable fathers.
The third group are the men
whose jobs are considered essential.
They are entitled to occupational
deferment in IA or 2-B as previ-
ously.
The fourth group are those on
the superintendent list, the new
list of critical occupations. While
no deferments are permanent, these
men are considered as holding jobs
so critical that they could not be
replaced.
List Aroused Protests.
VINO officials have never given
out figures to indicate how effective
the original nom -deferrable list was,
outside of saying that a number
of men changed jobs. The first
such list drew strong protests from
Capitol Hill because it was the
first time that work or fight"
policy was applied to fathers.
One difference between the new
list and the old one is the inclusion
as nondeferrable of some jobs for
skilled workers in order to get men
using those skills out of nonessential
work and into war industries.
In addition to proposing that the
Selective Service System be divorced
from VINO, Senator Davis made
these recommendations