OCCUPATION
DETERMINES DEFERMENT
Family
Status No Longer Basis for Draft Deferment
WASHINGTON,
D.C.—New regulations issued just two weeks ago by the War Manpower Commission
(WMC) have shifted the focus of draft deferment from a man’s family status to his
occupation. Starting on October 1, the question becomes one of whether a man aged
18 to 38 can better serve his country in
the armed forces or in war production. According to WMC chairman Paul V.
McNutt, the goal is to “hold essential workers on war-useful jobs, to assure
transfer of workers to jobs aiding the war effort, and to supply men needed for
the armed forces without cutting war production.” Lawrence A. Appley, executive
director of the WMC, also stated he hoped the new regulations would “…make an
outright labor draft unnecessary.”
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