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“Section 6 (h) of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, is further amended by adding after the first proviso the following* ‘Provided further, That no person otherwise found, on his individual status, to be eligible for deferment because of his employment which is determined to be necessary to the maintenance of the national health, safety, or interest, as herein provided, shall be granted a deferment on account of the existence of a shortage of any agricultural cominodity, or denied a deferment on! account of a surplus of any agricultural commodity.” -j . . ,,
Mr. Harrison of Virginia. Mr. Chairman, for several years now the Selective Service System has been denying deferments to agricultural workers otherwise entitled thereto when local draft, boards think that crops raised by these agricultural workers are in surplus. The purpose of my amendjnent is to put a Stop to that.
Mr. Chairman, under the law industrial and agricultural workers are deferred when their employment is necessary to the maintenance of the national health, safety, or interest. That must be determined upon their individual status and the President is authorized and directed to draft regulations to carry out the intention of the Congress with respect thereto. The regulations that we have had in for£ for years provide three criteria for determining whether or not an agricultural or an industrial worker is entitled to deferment.
The first is that he must be actually engaged in a necessary occupation. Second, he must,show he cannot be replaced and, third, that his removal would cause material loss of effectiveness in such activi
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