Evening star., 1941-01-14
Martin Urges
Labor, Industry
Draft Power
Aircraft Maker
Backs 6-Doy Week
= At House Hearing
3, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Glenn L. Martin, the airplane
manufacturer. told a congressional
committee today the Government
should have power to draft both
labor and industry for defense pro-
duction.
Testifying before the House Naval
Affairs Committee. the Baltimore
industrialist said efforts to speed up
the rearmament drive should be
undertaken in stages. but with the
possibility always in mind that the
drafting of labor and industry might
prove necessary.
81 think you should have the
power to draft them if you need
them" he said.
"If you just want the present pro-
gram, I believe the Army and Navy
could obtain the present number OF
planes desired without confusion
But we don't know the future and
we must look ahead to the bigger
show
Favsrs Six-Day Week.
Previously Mr.. Martin had told
the committee that a SiX-day week
was "by all means necessary in
defense industries and could be
achieved without loss of pay or
health to the workers.
The witness said his company
concentrating on production tor
defense. already had organized work
so that it could 60 on six-day week
as soon as it can obtain "a CO.
ordinated flow of material
1--WE will do it under the present
labor law" Mr.. Martin testified
by paying the men time-and-one-
half for all time over five days"
CUnder the wage-haur law the
basic work week is a five-day.
4O-hour week. Overtime work
must be compensated for at the
rate of time and one-hafD
Should the Government see flt to
revise the law in favor of slX-day
work week, Mr.. Martin said an
adjustment of wage scales could
easily be effected so the workers
would get approximately the same
weekly pay as under the overtime
system.
Is Per Cent Output Boost Seen.
The six-day week would not
weaken" the working man in any
way. Mr.. Martin declared, and II
would increase the weekly output OF
his plant by Is per cent.
The Martin company is in process
of trebling it's capacity for making
Army and Navy planes, the witness
related, adding that it would be
April l, 1912 before the plant would
use a full working force OF $4,000
men.
With 1000 men now on the job,
Mr.. Martin said, the plant is making
31l patrol bombers for the Navy,
exclusive of its orders for Army
planes such as the new B-26 medium
bomber.
The new facilities, he said, will
give the plant a monthly capacity
of 80 naval patrol bombers-three
times what it was before the eX-
pansion-and a similar increase in
the rate of Army plane building.
Coordination Urged.
Questioned by Chairman Vinson,
Mr.. Martin said there was great need
for strong coordination of all in
dustry, both defense and CONNER
cial."
I'm some non-defense plants" he
said by way of example, they have
machine tools working part-time or
not at all, but industry doesn't want
to give up those tools.
"Co-ordination is so important
that it ought to be strengthened
right away.
"A co-ordinator can find places
that aluminium is now going that
could be curtailed without hurting
that industry"
Representative Vinson wanted to
know about the possibility of stand
ardizing types of military planes
now being produced in order to speed
production
You can Standardize standards
but you can't freeze the types" Mr..
Martin said. you've got to win
the race or not be in it and you
have to change your ship so that
you become the winner. The time
taken in making changes must
be kept at minimum. You must
be prepared to make changes in
q fighting plane"
Fourth of Work Diverted.
The witness said his company had
about Is per cent of its work done
by subcontractors and the Navy
contributed in supplies another 25
per cent.
II am very satisfied" Representa-
tive Vinson observed, that you can
speed deliveries if a corporation
would adopt a policy of getting as
much material from subcontractors
as they are able to furnish. 1 am
glad to know that you are doing
so much subcontract work. Every
subcontractor that can help should
be called into the picture"
Mr.. Martin said that in the overall
picture of future supplies, there were
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