Show LABOR UNIT LEADERS RESIGN WASHINGTON April 22 UP The bulk of the top personnel of the labor division of the war production production production pro pro- board has offered a blanket blank blank- et resignation to War Production Board Chairman Donald M M. Nelson who refused it- it W P B sources disclosed Wednesday The offer was made by a small group of spokesmen for key officials officials officials of the division abolished l last st Saturday by President Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt in order to give Nelson a free freehand freehand freehand hand in organizing a new labor production division with abbreviated abbreviated abbreviated powers Associates of Sidney Hillman whose post as director the labor division was abolished along with that unit said he was planning to take a vacation of three weeks to toa toa a month at least due to ill health before assuming any official duties Hillman was in a Washington hospital receiving treatment for I arthritis his asso associates i tes said but has informed his aides to continue functioning as usual pending creation creation cre cre- creation of the new division No director has been appointed for the labor production division division division divi divi- sion nor have its duties been clarified It was ordered created by Mr Roosevelt in his executive order establishing the new manpower manpower manpower man man- power commission headed by Paul V. V McNutt The old labor divisions division's functions functions functions concerned with labor supply and training were ordered transferred transferred transferred trans trans- to McNutt's jurisdiction However the transfer has not taken taken taken tak tak- en place and morale in the orphaned orphaned orphaned or or- W P B division was reported report report- ed low because of uncertainty as asto asto asto I to the future Nelson was said to have assured the labor division executives who offered to step out of the picture a group of spokesmen which included in included included in- in Erick Nicol and Maxwell Brandwen executive assistants to the deposed Hillman that he wished them to continue carrying on pending completion of the re re- re- re organization |