Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1939 — Page 8

AGE 8

REGIMENTATION OF LABOR ISSUE IN DRAFT PLANS

- Federal Machinery Could Be ‘Used to Destroy Unions, Writer Says.

(Last -of a series) | By BRUCE CATTON

‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (NEA).—

Unless plans now on file in‘the War Department ,are profoundly modified, American labor will go under a regimentation potentially as strict and far-reaching as anything existg in Europe if the United States gets into another war. + Steps to meet labor’s objections to these plans are now being taken By the War Department. It has orked out a program for wartime labor control, plans to submit it to leaders of the C. I. O. and A. F. of L. as well as to the Government's various labor agencies for discussion, and hopes that it can eventully come up with a scheme which will get organized labor’s approval.

- Conscription Is Basis

| But while the Department’s officials are sincere in saying that they want a plan which can enjoy organized labor’s hearty co-operation, the basic fact is that any such plan ill rest on the foundation provid y the department's famous Inustrial Mobilization Plan. | The crux of this plan is the part which relates to conscription for the army. | Under this plan, registration for the draft would proceed much along the lines of 1917-18. Men between 21 and 31, inclusive; would be registered first; the ultimate limits would be 18 to 45. On registration, a person would be classified in one of four groups 1. Those immediately available for military service. 2. Those whose drafting is deferred because they hold essential jobs in war-essential industries. 3. Those whose drafting is deferred because they have dependents. 4. Those whose drafting is not desired for any of several reasons— because they are aliens, because they are in prison, and so on. Local draft boards would do the classifying, and their decisions would be final . Suppose, now, that a worker claims deferred status under Class 2—as an essential worker in an essential industry. No industry would get blanket exemption such ~ as was conferred on the shipyards in the last war. -

Limit Set on Delays

Instead, the worker would have to present his draft board with two affidavits, one from his immediate superior and the other from the S3teutive head of the firm he worked or. These affidavits would have to state, first, that the firm was enaged in war-essential activities, and second that this particular worker was essential to its operations. Suppose that the worker gets his deferred status, in Class 2. He would not get it for the duration of the war, but for some specified period—three months, six months, a year, or whatever the board might determine. At the end of that time he would have to come in- again. On top of this, the plan specifically authorizes the President, if he deems it in the national interest, to over-ride draft board classifications and call up men from Classes 2, 3 or 4. How this machinery could be used to destroy a union organization and regiment labor is obvious upon a little reflection. One group which did a good deal of reflecting on it is the famous Nye Munitions Committee. In 1936 it issued a report on the Industrial Mobilization Plan, stating .that if this sort of draft act were followed “this country.will have for all practical purposes a draft of labor.”

Compulsory Jobs Forecast -

The Industrial Mobilization Plan contemplates an employment service under a War Labor Administrator, its object being to place unemployed men in jobs. Studying this part of the plan, the Nye committee concluded that in practice it would probably mean

that an unemployed worker would |

be forced to take whatever job the agency offered him. It ought to be made clear, of course, that the War Department is not made up of men who are out to subjugate labor—or industry - either. The Industrial Mobilization Plan was drawn up to enable a war to be won swiftly and efficiently; the strictness of the controls it sets up for labor are, so to speak, incidental. And it should be emphasized that the department is now trying to work out a formula which will be acceptable to laber.

No Passage— | Sign as Crew

GALVESTON, TEX. Oct. 8 (U. P)~Eleven women and a 4-month-old baby, legally constituted crew members of the Lyke Line freighter Eglantine, were “discharged teday after an exciting passage frof=Liverpool. They had, Po et the offices of the Re ood signed on at ol as crewmen when they were finable to book passage on a liner. The freighter has no license as a pasenger carrier. The women said the Eglantine was stopped by a German submarine two days out of Liverpool and that the U-boat commander came aboard and examined her papers before allowing her to iprocecd,

GUNMAN ROBS LIQUOR STORE

Man Found in Alley With $35 Missing Only Recalls ~ Boarding Streetcar.

Whisky, $53 in cash and $115 in checks were included in the loot in crimes.reported to police overnight. : A young gunman wearing a raincoat entered the liquor store at 1115 E. 10th St. today and robbed Burnice Hatchett, clerk, of $13 in cash

and a bottle of rock and rye. Found lying in an alley near S. East and Caven Sts., Paul Pardieck, 43, of 325 Caven St., told police he remembered nothing after boarding

:|a streetcar. His pockets were turned

inside out and about $35 was missing. His glasses were broken. ¥Police said they believed he had been slugged. A 24-year-old girl accused of stealing. $5 in cash and checks totaling $115 from the automobile of Norbert O’Leary, 3327 E. Michigan St, was held on a vagrancy charge. The theft, police were told, took place while the car was parked in the 700 block, Pierson: St. A case of whisky valued at $21 was stolen from a Hayes Freight Lines truck while it was parked in the rear of the Murphy Building on S. Pennsylvania St., police were told.

STUDENTS, FACULTY AT 0DDS it EMBARGO

Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Oct. 8.—Wabash College students favor retention of the Neutrality Law, while their professors favor its repeal, a poll conducted by The Bachelor, student newspaper, revealed today. The poll showed that four students out of seven queried thought the United States could stay out of the war more easily by retaining the present law. In contrast, eight out of every nine faculty members polled thought the arms embargo should be repealed. The professors almost unanimously expressed the opinion that the embargo is aiding Hitler and that, if it were repealed, the war would end more quicékly, thus with less chance for us to be drawn into the fray, the student paper reported.

SEVEN ARE UNHURT AS "ELEVATOR FALLS

HUNTINGTON, Ind. Ind, Oct. 68 (U. P.).—Seven persons escaped injury yesterday when the elevator in the Court House fell from the third floor, hit steel springs at the bottom of the shaft and bounced to a stop less than ‘three feet from the first floor. The elevator had been out of service for several days and had

been in use only a few minutes when

it fell.

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