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War in the Workshops

Stone, I. P. | November 8, 1941 issue

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The Tolan committee was set up by the U.S. House under a resolution to inquire further into the inter-state migration of citizens, emphasizing the present and potential consequences of the migration caused by the national defense program. It takes its name from its chairman, Congressman John H. Tolan of California. The committee, at hearings in Washington and in Detroit, Michigan, recently found itself going into the basic problems of the defense program. If civilian capacity can be converted to defense and orders spread widely enough, defense migrations and their attendant dislocations can be averted. Workers can find jobs at home.

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COMMITTEES; UNITED States. Congress. House; MILITARY policy; SOCIOLOGY, Military; TOLAN, John H.; NATIONAL security; UNITED States
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