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OCR Page 1 of 9Release on Delivery
10:00 A.M. Tuesday, Jan. 11
New York, New York
MANPOWER AND THE RETAILER
Mr. President, and members of the National Retail Dry
Goods Association, I appreciate the honor of speaking before your
Wartime Conference. Conferences such as this have a very important
part in the war effort because they enable members of industry from
widely scattered areas to gain an understanding of the many new
problems created by the war, and the best methods of coping with them.
Today you are particularly concerned with manpower. Quite
understandably, the War Manpower Commission, from the outset, has
classified retail stores as non-essential activities, and under
Selective-Servic regulations, it has listed an increasing number of
store jobs and positions as non-essential, thus subjecting men between
the ages of eighteen and thirty-eight in retail stores to a change
TRUMAN APCHIVES "NATIONAL AND
in draft classification unless they transfer to activities listed
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as more essential.
I know that you all appreciate the necessity of providing
sufficient men for the armed services and workers for the plants directly
producing war goods, and that you have been glad to make your contribution
despite the trouble that it has created for you.
But sometimes, we in the Government are apt, in our anxiety
to provide fully those things which most directly contribute to the
winning of the war, to forget that war today is total war. Almost all
activities, however remote their connection may seem to be, contribute
something. The task of Government today is to distribute scarce materials
and manpower to all activities in accordance with a just understanding
of their relative contributions.
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