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 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 480-OCT. 3, 1944 experience in the matters with which it will deal under this Act, three members of the Board shall have had experience in business manage- ment, three members shall have had experience in matters relating to labor, and three members shall have had experience in agriculture. The President shall designate one of the remaining three members as chairman of the Board. (b) It shall be the general function of the Board to advise with the Director with respect to war mobilization and reconversion and make to him such recommendations relating to legislation, policies, and procedures as it may deem necessary. (c) Members of the Board shall receive a per diem allowance of $25 for each day spent in actual meetings of the Board or at con- ferences held upon the call of the Director, plus necessary traveling and other expenses incurred while so engaged. TITLE II-DEMOBILIZATION AND RECONVERSION POLICIES SEC. 201. The War and Navy Departments shall not retain persons in the armed forces for the purpose of preventing unemployment or awaiting opportunities for employment. SEC. 202. Any contracting agency shall terminate prime contracts for war production whenever in the opinion of the agency the per- formance under such contracts will not be needed for the prosecution of the war, and shall not continue performance under such contracts merely for the purpose of providing business and employment, or for any purposes other than the prosecution of the war, unless the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion finds that the continuation of some or all of the work in process under any such contract will benefit the Government or is necessary to avoid substantial physical injury to a plant or property. SEC. 203. Curtailments of war production or terminations of war contracts shall be integrated and synchronized with the expansion, resumption, or initiation of production for other war purposes, and, to the greatest extent compatible with the effective prosecution of the war, of production for nonwar use. To effectuate this policy- (a) the contracting agencies shall continuously survey their product and material requirements and report to the Director, in such form and detail as he may determine, on current and antici- pated changes in requirements and on all anticipated curtailments of war production or terminations of war contracts; (b) the executive agencies exercising control over manpower, production, or materials shall permit the expansion, resumption, or initiation of production for nonwar use whenever such pro- duction does not require materials, components, facilities, or labor needed for war purposes, or will not otherwise adversely affect or interfere with the production for war purposes. Such pro- duction for nonwar use shall be permitted regardless of whether one or more competitors normally engaged in the same type of production are still engaged in the performance under any con- tract which is needed for the prosecution of the war, and shall not be made dependent upon the existence of a concern or the functioning of a concern in a given field of activity at a given time; (c) the Director shall- (1) establish policies to be followed by the contracting agencies in selecting individual contracts or classes of con- tracts for curtailment, nonrenewal, or termination; Qualifications of members. Chairman. Function. Per diem allowance. Restriction on re- tention of personnel in armed forces. Prime contracts for war production. Curtailments of war production. Survey of require- ments. Production for non- war use. Policies in selecting contracts. 787 58 STAT.]

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