AWOL

After 2 1/2 months of manifestoes and loud demands for a voice in the country's mobilization councils, the United Labor Policy Committee chalked up an important victory. It got the right to name a slate of union officials to serve in defense agencies. According to George McGregor Harrison, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and one of the highest paid officials (recently raised to $76,000) in the American labor movement, it was "very hard for labor to find a top man for one of these jobs." But labor managed. It found George M. Harrison.

And so George M. Harrison became consultant to the Office of Defense Mobilization. That was six weeks ago. Since then, Harrison has shuttled between San Francisco, Cincinnati and Washington, attended union meetings, helped to redraft his union's bylaws, met with the Railway Labor Executives Association. Not once has he hung his hat in the office set aside for him by Mobilizer Charlie Wilson. Fortnight ago, Harrison got around at last to doing something about his new responsibility. He stopped by for a chat with Wilson, and asked to be formally sworn in. That didn't mean he was now ready to work. After the oath he said that he was about to take off for Europe to attend a labor conference, would not be available for duty until the end of July.

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