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and class l and class tractors:
research and development work
specifically assigned by the technical
services; certain airplanes to be list
ed in detail later.
Navy list-Landing craft: rockets;
submarines; aircraft carriers: high
capacity ammunition: radar: MAIN
tenance Of ships and aircraft for
the fleet; certain airplanes to be
listed III detail later.
Maritime list-All tanker con-
struction; combat-loaded cargo and
transport ships.
Parts Production Included.
Production of components parts
In critical short supply for the above
listed programs shall receive the
same consideration as the end prod
uct listed, to the extent required in
each plant WPB said in tele-
gram to its regional directors.
Men under % were not mentioned
In the announcement and it was
INDICATED that those in that age
group will receive little if any con-
sideration for further deferment.
The large number of war manu-
featuring programs not listed by
WPB also apparently were out in
the cold as regards Government
spport for deferment of any work
erS under 26.
Even in the programs listed, the
telegram made it clear that indrose-
ment of employers requests for de-
fermentS must be limited to specific
individuals whose work requires an
extreme or specialized skill or
knowledge or high educational or
specialized qualification. and then
only when the individual emloye
is irreplaceable from other less
urgent work within the plant or by
recruitment"
Job Is to Prune Deferments.
The specific job of the committee
Is to prune to a minimum the ap-
proximately 100000 young men now
holding industrial deferments so
that the armed forces demand for
young combat manpoWer can be met.
Only those youths held to be "irre-
placeable" will be retained by in
dustry.
There are nine Government
agencies designated as claimants"
for young manpower and each is
represented on the committee. Pre-
lin1inary estimates place total de-
ferment requests of claimants at
100000 or more, figure believed far
above the maximum to which the
Army and Navy will agree. In that
event, the members of the group
will have the difficulty and highly
controversial task of pruning their
own lists of "irreplaceables."
A battle over the way the COM
mittee will function appeared likely
from statements already made by
members. Manpower Chairman
Paul V. McNutt, who heads the
1nter-Agency Committee, dclared he
would have the final say and that
other members will be purely ad-
visory. Assistant Secretary of Navy
Dbl VI Sdlu ltc ullucISlUOu bIlS COLL
mittee would act by majority vote
and that the whole question would
be lroned out at today's session. A
selective service spokesman said Mr.
McNutt would have no more say"
than any other member.
To Ask Miners Deferment.
Meanwhile, an official said the
Solid Fuels Administration, one of
the manpower claimants" will ask
deferment for coal miners from %
to 26, but will not seek protection for
miners under %.
While exact figures are not vet
available, estimates were that 10000
coal miners of draft age are under
26, with 25,000 of these in the 22-to-
26 age group. 1t was believed un-
likely the armed services would ap-
prove deferment for so many young
miners, whom STA term as indis-
penSable to the Nation,s war effort