Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-18
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IN HIS second discussion |of war production problems
| within wees NJ Donald Nelson said there are two
ways for An,crios - wiz ,h.s war
One way : 81 have management and labor bend
conceiyaoe eaar ~ achieve maximum production
THAT" ss.t NJ N5's7r. is the AMERICAN way"
and is what We arr fighting maintain in this country
The other WAY ara ;he ONLY other way. IS the way
III 49, - NJ Ts,r Sss the way az our enemies"
And NJ Nelson i richt that there Is such rnten-
sv II feeling about the among the American people
that they gong 20 WIN H. and have the production
which necessary WIN II, "one way or the other
But Of course this very intensity of feeling
among the people that best that II is the
AMERICAN WAY which Will be employed
TT Is nconccivabe that the Other way desired by
| any considerable number of people, and equally
inconcei,able that it will be necessary
Mir Nelson himself seems 10 be completely confident
that maximum production is attanable by truly
free and democratic people, and by the tme-honored
democratic American methods.
He warns however that time is short and that this
may be our last chance to show that free economy can
survive and be strong"
IF free men in America can't use the strength which
freedom gives" he concluded "tO turn in far better job
than the slaves of enemies then freedom dies and
that includes the freedom of enterprise TO which
looking to deliver these goods
Full production for the purpose of winning this war
Is wholly matter of FULL EFFORT.
A MERICA has already made, and is now making ire
a mendous efforts to not merely match the pro-
duction of enemies but to gain the margin them
which will victory.
However, these tremendous efforts not enough.
They have not produced enough planes tanks guns,
ships and munitions halt the advance of the enemy let
alone defeat him
So must do the things CAPABLE Of
doing, and that enemies NOT capable of doing.
Partial production by factories and shipyards and
farms must become TOTAL production
Partial work by artisans scientists, tradesmen and
laborers must become TOTAL application of talents and
energies.
WYE CANNOT have full war effort and full
w production, with idle par-time assembly lines.
We cannot have these essential things with halfspeed
factories mills and yards
We cannot have them with strikes or lockouts, with
suspension of work while controversy its with
debate the terms and conditions under which the
tools and weapons of will be produced for and de-
livered to the men who are fighting the war.
The seven-day week, the 24-hour day and the 60
minute hour the measurements of the TIME available
and should make not merely good partial
of that vital time but total of il from and
UNTIL THE VICTORY IS WON.
And let us remember as Mr. Nelson pointedly says
that this element of time has been bought at the price
of American boys fighting lonely islands, in seaming
junges by American boys aboard sormtossed warships
wardng of the death that strikes from the clouds and
from beneath the waves; by American boys fighting in
the best warplanes in the world planes of which must
make and more fast"