HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS

UNITED STATES SENATE

SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 36

A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 5 (K) OF THE SELECTIVE

TRAINING AND SERVICE ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED

AND

H. R. 1752

AN ACT TO AMEND THE SELECTIVE TRAINING AND

SERVICE ACT OF 1940, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

FEBRUARY 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, AND 16, 1945

[House hearings, bearing same title, were held on
H. R. 1119, January 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 1945]

Printed for the use of the Committee on Military Affairs

UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1945

COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS

ELBERT D. THOMAS, Utah, Chairman

PAUL L. BADGER, Clerk

WALTER I. SMALLEY, Special Assistant

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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CONTENTS

FEBRUARY 6, 1945

Texts of the bills-

Page

S. 36 as introduced by Senators Bailey and Brewster..

H. R. 1752 as introduced by Representative Andrew J. May and as

passed by the House on February 1, 1945-

1

2

S. 36 with proposed amendment in the nature of a substitute, Com-

mittee Print No. 2, February 3, 1945.

5

H. R. 1752 as ordered by the committee, February 22, 1945, to be

reported to the Senate..

Letter of January 16, 1945, to the President by Admiral King and

General Marshall

General Marshall on critical shortages.

Congressional authorization to mobilize industry for war.

Statutes affecting property in wartime.

Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, section 9..

War Manpower Commission: Letter addressed to the chairman of the

committee, signed by 25 Members of the House of Representatives,

urging "that the War Manpower Commission continue in its role as

mobilizer of the Nation's manpower".

Hon. James V. Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy.

Hon. Ralph A. Bard, Under Secretary of the Navy

Hon. Paul V. McNutt, Chairman, War Manpower Commission

Inserted or quoted materials:

Why This Nation Needs the Bailey-May Bill, by Mr. Bard.

War Manpower Commission Program for Meeting the Current Man-

power Emergency.

Report on employment at Allentown, Pa.

Statements of-

FEBRUARY 8, 1945

Hon. J. A. Krug, Chairman, War Production Board.

Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Director, Selective Service System...

Mr. Ira Mosher, president, National Association of Manufacturers___

Letter from Staff Sgt. Charles V. Foreman, United States Marine

Corps Reserve

126

Telegram from Steamfitters Local 590, San Francisco, Calif.

133

War Production Board release of December 7, 1944, regarding critical

programs (cited).

140

War Production Board release of January 15, 1945, regarding prelim-

inary estimates of new construction volume in the United States in

1945-

143

Table showing decline in employment in industry.

151

Letter from Mr. W. H. Wheeler, Jr, president, Pitney-Bowes Postage

Meter Co., Stamford, Conn__

152

Memorandum by General Hershey regarding procedures in connection

with employment....

159

Inserted or quoted materials-Continued.

Page

Stars and Stripes editorial, February 7, 1945-

121

Absenteeism and Lateness: Extract from British Information Services,

revised to March 1944.

182

Civilian labor force of the United States by age and sex.

Telegram sent by the National Association of Manufacturers to its

members and telegrams received in reply.

191

197

FEBRUARY 9, 1945

Statements of-

Mr. J. G. Luhrsen, Railway Labor Executives' Association

207

Mr. Eric Johnston, president, United States Chamber of Commerce..

Inserted or quoted materials:

237

Samuel Gompers, quotation from

207

Adjusting Your Business to War, book by Leo M. Cherne, 1939 (cited

and quoted).

208

Go West? Job Search Futile to Local Trio, article from Champaign

(Ill.) News Gazette...

209

216

Editorial Causes Protest, article from New York Times, February 9,

1945, regarding the Stars and Stripes editorial of February 7, 1945.

The Merchant's Point of View, article in New York Times for January

21, 1945, quotation from, also citation of a statement by Hon. Ber-

nard M. Baruch in his book, American Industry in the War

When Democracy Breaks Down, article by David Lawrence, in United

States News, February 9, 1945.

Administration Policy Responsible for Workers Leaving Defense

Plants, statement by Representative Robsion (Congressional

Record, February 6, 1945, p. A514)-

Fifty-six thousand workers disabled in month, Unitde States Labor

Press Service release, February 5, 1945

Federal Steel Orders at Record Now Subject to Sudden Cancelation,

item in Wall Street Journal for February 6, 1945.

250

FEBRUARY 13, 1945

Statements of--

Hon. O. Max Gardner, Chairman, Advisory Board on War Mobiliza-

tion and Reconversion..

253

Mr. W. R. Ogg, American Farm Bureau Federation_

262

Mr. James G. Patton, president, National Farmers Union.
Mr. Fred Brenckman, National Grange... -

276

281

Inserted or quoted materials:

War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944, section 102..

Resolution of the Advisory Board on War Mobilization and Reconver-

sion, January 10, 1945.

United States Can't Take Pride in 1944 Strike Record, article by Mr.

Letter by Edward A. O'Neal to Gen. Lewis B. Hershey.

Letter to Edward A. O'Neal by Gen. Lewis B. Hershey.

Letter by Edward A. O'Neal to Hon. James F. Byrnes.

Letter to Edward A. O'Neal by Hon. James F. Byrnes.

Tydings amendment to S. 36..

Effect of the minimum wartime workweek regulation_

White House statement regarding the Voorhis bill..

Leo Wolman in Washington Sunday Star, February 11, 1945...

Hon. Clinton S. Golden, United Steel Workers of America and Vice

Chairman of the War Manpower Commission and the War Produc-

tion Board.

289

Mr. Lewis G. Hines, American Federation of Labor.

311

Mr. Ernest L. Bell, Jr., counsel of the Citizens Committee for a Na-

tional War Service Act__

333