The first fundraising goal was set at $5,000. Milt Dohner, a local businessman, agreed to head the new branch and begin a fundraising campaign. Hayward’s branch of the United Service Organizations (the USO) started in March 1942. The USO: “Hayward Hospitality House” During WWII This essay explores some of the ways the Hayward area was impacted by World War II. Other consequences were decidedly negative, especially the incarceration of Japanese Americans for no other reason except their race. Residents donated rubber and metal toward local scrap drives and gave blood to the Red Cross. On the home front, wartime rationing and restrictions had major consequences for residents. Like the rest of the country, Hayward area residents served bravely, both at home and abroad. Some local women also volunteered for service as “Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service”, better known as WAVES. Hundreds of local men served in the armed forces during the war and many were killed in action in Europe and Pacific. When Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, it immediately changed how Hayward area residents lived their everyday lives for the following 4 years. Written by HAHS Staff | Download a PDF of this article Introduction And compel individuals to register and provide information about themselves.The World War II Home Front in the Hayward Area.Power to direct any person to leave one employment and engage in another.Restrict the right of the employer to dismiss his employees.Prevent employees from leaving their employment.Restrict the right of employees to engage in the employment of their choice.Prevent employers from engaging labour not authorised by the directorate.Power to exempt a person from service or prohibit their enlistment.The powers under the Manpower Regulations included: The government had the power to say what every man should do whether in the armed services, war industry or civilian industry. From March all labour required by unprotected establishments needed to apply for labour through the National Service offices and all unemployed persons were to register within seven days of becoming unemployed.įrom the first of April 1942 all engagement of male labour was controlled and a national registration of both male and female labour was completed. The Director-General of Manpower was able to exempt any person from service in the armed forces to declare that industries were “protected” and require that a permit be obtained for any change of employment. In March 1942 the list was replaced by a Schedule of reserved occupations and industrial priorities. So, in January 1942 a Manpower Directorate was established and took over responsibility for the List of reserved occupations. The list of reserved occupations was not strong enough to administrate the demands of the services against the demands of industry and a labour crisis began to emerge. In early 1942, however, during the crisis of the Japanese advance in the Pacific, more than 100,000 men were called up for full-time service. The list was not mandatory and it was open to anyone to seek release from their reserved occupations. The list was devised to prevent the voluntary enlistment of skilled workers from essential services, such as munitions production. In 1940, the Minister for State of Defence Coordination published a List of reserved occupations (provisional) to ensure maximum manpower for the war effort. Occupations reserved were those which were essential for the production of equipment and supplies for the war effort. The first significant regulation introduced during the first two years of the war was to reserve occupations from military service. Manpower regulations affected the individual liberties and touched the day to day activities of Australians perhaps more than any other executive operations of government throughout this period. Labour controls were introduced during the Second World War to meet a crisis in manpower and to administrate between the needs of the armed services and industry.
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