Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-28
Work Day Loss
By Stoppdges
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tanks are worth about $4,000
each or a total of S486, 10000
This is the industrial output,
and the value of it, which has been
lost by stoppuges so far this year
as irrevocably as though sunk by
torpedo. mine or bomb during
transit of the Atlantic. And the
stoppage tempo is increasing.
The National Association of
Manufacturers reported that dur
ing the first three months of this
year 3,022, 918 man-days were lost
by stoppages.
Since then 100000 soft coal
miners. who furnish fuel for the
furnaces of defense factories have
added 100000 man-days to the
idle side of the labor ledger. The
strike of 5000 Ford workers and
other stoppages have brought the
April figures to about 10000. 900
and the 1871 total to date to ap-
proximately 100000 man-days.
The mushroom increase in
Stoppages is shown by the n. A. NJ.
figures disclosing that in all of
last year only 6-500.009 man-heuFs
were lost and in the first three
months of 1910 the loss was only
905.000 man-hours compared to
the 3.022 .91S in the first three
months of 1871. England, the
n. A. NJ. reported. lost only $40
900 man-days by stoppages in the
whole of 1910. In the AXIS coun-
tries there were no such losses at
all because stoppages are not al
lowed in the totalitarian nations.
TABLE SHOWS GAINS
The loss of man-days of labor
shows a steady and increasing
gain during The present year. as
evidenced by the following table:
January 693 600
February $40, 76S
March 1.4S0. $50
April testim'td to date) 100000
Total 1902, 91S
In announcing labor losses due
to strikes for the first three
months Of thn-Iear.- which have
been greatly increased since then,
the y. A. NJ declared:
"Strikes in strategic indus
tries are a major bottleneck In
defense production"
The first six months Of actual
defense production. which was
roughly HE first half 81 1910.
showed a Ga per cent increase in
loss from strikes. the y A. NJ
disclosed. Since then the rise has
been increasingly rapid.
In denounC1ng strikes as major
defense bottleneck the y. A. NJ
said
MANY recent strikes in de-
Tense industries have been
caused by labor union demands
that employers who receive de-
Tense contracts require all
employees or applicants for en-
plOyment to join a labor union
as a condition of employment.
"In addition many labor
unions have in recent months
demanded that employees work
ing on defense contracts or work
directly related thereto pay to
the unions so-called 'work-per-
init fees that is, payment of a
specified sum to the union be-
fore they will be allowed TO
work on particular projects.
HIT UNJUST TRIBUTE
1T Is unjust TO require the
emplOye TO pay tribute as the
price of securing or holding a
job on a national defense project
as basic principle no
American citizen who j. other
wise qualified should he pre-
vented from work king on
contracts for national defense
because of either membership or
non-membership in any private
organization"
Calling for additional changes
IN the National Labor Relations
Act TO reduce labor stoppages in
d g ense work. the association
stressed the necessity for national
cooperation IN the defense pro-
gram.