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Show Selective Service NOTES Ex-Service Men and Nation Defense De-fense Industries: Speeding and ensuring the flow of ex-service men with mechanical mechani-cal skills to undermanned National Nation-al Defense industries, National Selective Service Headquarters announced completion of arrangements arrange-ments to classify all such men before be-fore they are discharged from the Army so that they may be employed em-ployed immediately in priorities production. This will accomplished, said Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service, by the establishment of "referral offices'' in Army camps where the men will be interviewed personally per-sonally and given suggestions as to how they best can contribute to National Defense when they return to civilian life. These "referral offices," he explained, will be operated by the U. S. Employment Em-ployment Service Division of the Social Security Board, in cooperation cooper-ation with the War Department and the Office of Production Management, Man-agement, Labor' Division, for the Selective -Service Reemployment Division. Pointing out that all arrangements arrange-ments for the establishing and operating the referral offices were completed by the four government govern-ment divisions involved within one weekafter their nedd became one week after their need became ed this was "an excellent example of the ability of a democracy to do high-speed teamwork without violating democratic principles or discarding normal governmental governmen-tal safeguards for setting up a new operation." He said. "The need to control the flow of skilled ex-service men to critical criti-cal defense in dustries became apparent ap-parent October 6 because of urgent ur-gent requests from plants seeking seek-ing addional help to carry out schedules of National Defense production. pro-duction. On October 13, the plans for these referral offices in Army camps had been completed at conferences con-ferences with representatives of the office of Production Management, Manage-ment, the war Department, and the Social Security Board. It is noteworthy that there was no interpostition of red tape'; no disputes concerning details. The procedure was that of teamwork between the four governmental divisions concerned, with each working out its part of the program pro-gram as rapidly as possible." |