Evening star., 1942-03-01
Nelson Will Reveal
Victory Production
Plans in Broadcasts
Every Possible Step
Ordered by President in
Letter to w. P. B. Chief

Ordered by President in
Letter to w. p. B. Chief
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
Keyed to the commanding
theme that "to win we must
fight" a new and. harsher blue
print Of tte Nations wartime
economy, including a projected
new management-labor relation
ship, will be spread before the
American people tomorrow night
by Donald M. Nelson, commander
in chief Of the production effort
1t will be q program demanded
Of Mr.. Nelson and of the Nations
productive capacity by President
Roosevelt in an urgent note to the
War Production Board chairman,
made public yesterday by the White
House simultaneously with Mr.. Mel
sons responding assurances that
'every possible step" will be taken
to match the great task ahead.
First of a series Of four radio out
lines of what is being newly planned
for 130,000,000 people behind the
fighting lines, tomorrows address is
to be directed primarily at manage
ment and labor already engaged in
war contract work.
Included may be further details
Of the plan for joint labor manage
ment war plant committees, de-
veloping project which was revealed
by Mr.. Nelson in his answer to Mr..
Roosevelt and which may herald an
unprecedented distribution of re-
sponsibility between these two domi-
nant and often conflicting forces in
the production field.
Critical Months Ahead.
Advanced plans for utilization of
production machinery 1853 hours per
week-seven days at "a hours each
and for speedier conversion of fac
tories toswar usages also may be
outlined.
The extreme urgency Of this pro-
posed intensification of the Nations
industrial effort was made unquaH-
f1edly clear in the Presidents letter
to Mr.. Nelson.
THE months just ahead are the
critical months of the war" the
Chief Executive wrote. Victory oe-
pends in large measure on the in
creased war production we are able
to get from our factories and arse
mails in the spring and summer Of
1912.
What has been done so far must
be exceeded. This is total war. We
are all under f1re-soldiers and civil
ians alike. No one is a spectator, we
are all belligerents. To win we must
fight.
THE urgency Of today must be
felt in every shop and factory pro-
ducing war goods, in every home
and on every farm. Then we shall
achieve the spirit and cooperative
action that carries team to VIC
tory. -.
Auto Plant War Output Near.
II therefore direct you to take
every possible step to raise produc-
ton now, to bring home to labor
and management alike the supreme
Importance of war production this
crucial spring."
The White House exhortation CO.
incided with release by Representa-
tive Bell, Democrat, of Missouri, Of
letter which the President had
written him, assuring him that the
automobile industry would be COM
pletely harnessed within so days
for war production"
Already, the President said, the
three larger companies OF the in
dustry have war orders calling for
production valued at 12O per cent
of their civilian products in the
peak year of 1941, and that by
September of this year their employ
ment will exceed the personnel rolls
Of last December.
A preliminary survey of lib
smaller companies also shows they
had orders four weeks ago which
would tinvolve 90 per cent OF their
1941 employment and SO per cent
Of their 1941 production value, the
President added.
100000 Trained.
On the subject Of personnel for
war production, the Federal Security
Agency announced last night that
1t had trained 100000 men and
women for war work between July
/, 1941, and January 81, 1912. Most
OF the training was done at 164 col
leges and 2.109 vocational schools.
That Mr.. Nelson and the War Pro-
duction Board are recognizing no
limits to the extent to which in
dustrial facilities must be employed
in this undertaking was indicated
from his reply to President Roose-
velt that the following already are
being undertaken:
"A continuing national drive, de-
signed not merely to increase pro-
duction at once but to keep stepping
1t up further as the war continues.
"The principal aims of this drive
are to increase production immedi-
ately in plants which now have war
contracts and to convert other
plants to war production as speedily
and as completely as possible.
Variety Of Methods.
This will be made effective in
great variety of ways, including:
81. Greater utilization of plants
now producing war goods. aimed at
bringing us as close as possible to
the theoretical maximum of 168
hours work per week for every ma