U.S. FARM WORKERS TO BE DRAFTED
Deferred Classes To Be Re-examined NEW YORK, January 4. The Washington correspondent of The New York Times says that the Director of the Selective Service System, Major-General Lewis B. Hershey, has acceded to the request of the Director of War Mobilization, Mr J. J. Byrnes, on behalf of Mr Roosevelt, to draft farm workers. State draft directors have been instructed to re-examine all deferred farm workers aged from 18 to 25. This will affect 364,000 men. Mr Byrnes said Army and Navy demands for men would exhaust all eligibles in the 18 to 25 group at an early date.
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Southland Times, Issue 25564, 6 January 1945, Page 4
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