...turn-over, and they increase our present and future housing needs and social problems for defense workers. All holders of defense contracts are urged to examine...available source of labor capable of producing defense materials must be tupped in the present emergency. Yours very truly, SIDNEY HILLMAN, Associate Director...

...April 1 1 , a major policy initiative was undertaken. Hillman issued a letter to defense contractors, '"to examine their employment and training policies...whether or not these policies make ample provision for full utilization of available and competent Negro workers."39 The letter represented a more direct...

...extremely wasteful of our human resources and prevent a total effort for national defense." Consequently, "all holders of defense contracts are urged to examine...training policies at once to determine whether or not those policies make ample provision for the full utilization of Negro workers." This was hardly a stirring...

...Executive of the Nation, I place the full support of my office behind your statement to the effect that "all holders of defense contracts are urged to examine...available source of labor capable of producing defense materials must be tapped in the present emergency." "No nation combatting the increasing threat of...

...need for unity and placed "the full support of my office behind your statement to the effect that, All holders of defense contracts are urged to examine...utilization of available and competent Negro workers.'" Roosevelt stressed, "Every available source of labor capable of producing defense materials must be...

...stated to the Director of OPM : "... I place the full support of my office behind your statement thai 'all holders of defense contracts are urged to examine...for the full utilization of available and competent Nestro workers. . . .' " The President's next step, coming one week later, was issuance of the executive...