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provide for the following:

1. A Director of National Service (a Cabinet officer).

2. The Director of National Service would be advised by a Policy Committee appointed by the President and composed of representatives of industry, labor, agriculture, and the public.

4. Local boards.

5. Economic stabiliation, including price and wage control, rationing, limitation of salary and profits, labor control.

6. Penalties for quitting of jobs and absenteeism.

7. Control over construction of war plants.

8. Labor individual regulations including seniority, union rights, transfer expense, etc.

9. Hours of work.

10. Inventory and classification of all persons between 14 and 65 years of age. [[footnote]]12

This National Service Act would empower the government to:

1. See that unemployed or partially employed workers are directed towards employment in essential war industry.

2. See that workers in non-essential industries are distributed in orderly manner to essential war activities.

3. See that workers employed in essential war activities remain at work in these activities and are used at maximum effectiveness.

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[[footnote]]12. [[underlined]]Manpower Controls in a Future Emergency[[/underlined]], Industrial College of the Armed Forces, p. 34ff.

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