LABOR: Manpower Shortage Next?

Put away on ice until after the Democrats have won the November elections is the final draft of a National Service Act that will give Paul V. McNutt's Manpower Commission power to cope with "labor emergencies" akin to the powers now held by the British Government.

The British laws (which the British are still chary of invoking) give the Government power to 1) draft both men & women from 18 to 51 for war industry-either from other jobs or from their homes, 2) keep every essential worker at his job, 3) move workers...

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