The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-03

There is much to commend the plan which Presi-
dent Roosevelt is reported to have worked out for
unifyno monpower control. Indeed the need for
oconin this field is greet thot almost any positive
pion is better Than none.
The Department Of Labor would seem to be the
roturoI place N which to concentrate machinery tor
co-ordinotng the use of labor in industry And the
nniIitoy drot is nterreIoted with industrial man.
power thot the two belong together.
Few teors will be shed if Madame Perkins is NOV
ed out of the oobinet post she has held since 933.
Most of them will come from Womens Ri9hts-ers,
Who have beer uncrtcolIy happy about having one
OF their sex in the cobinet. Neither employers nor
organized labor nor the general public will grieve if
labor secretary with veor, imagination and toct is
oiven opportunity revvify that moribund bureau.
But there are unfortunate features, too, about
the proposal II preliminary reports we're intended
os triol boIIoons to test public reaction, then the
President may be interested to learn what the public
Would think about having Honest Harold Ickes, Mas
ter Of BlIingseote q, secretary Of labor.
y The grapevine soys that Presidents Green and
Murray Of the two major labor groups have accepted
lckes, though they prefer President Dan Tobn Of
the Teomste,s Union.
1t is hard to see how the public could accept eth
o. without strong protest. Tobin himself is clean,
hold for some Of the most vicious fockeeering poct-
~ But in reaction against Madame Perkins, official
euIness it would be dangerous to assume that
at honesty viecr and imagination is all that the lo-
bor Department needs to handle industrial monPow-
d control and the m|itor droft top of its routine
functions.
.-ro,ee is needed ord toct Restraint is need
c.. ond the willingness to give thought to both sides
az subject before Ieopino into the froy with every
vituperotive weapon blazing.
81 Perhops no fioure in New Deal officiodom has
approached difficult osks with better intentions than
Harold ckes or with greoter devotion to the public
welfare. Yet probably none, unless it be Mrs. Per-
kns has Hoped so doorousIy in everything except
preventing CROFT.
The United Stotes has thousands Of men os hon.
est, as vigorous, as imaginative industrious as
ickes, who possess those quofootions-obsoIuteIy
vitoI if monpower control is to work-which he would
not recognize if they to confront him in his Of
flee.
Cont we have one Of those better balanced gen.
tIemen for Mon-Boss in the new setup?
COFFEE RATIoNING
Government explanations Of coffee rotioning still
do not sotsfy doubts Of large sector Of the public.
UndouDtedy they are true Out tney ore nor ooeQuole
There is exponotion-one Of logic, not Of in
side informoton-whch could be made and would be
onple If we told thot coffee is being rotioned
because from ROW on much more shipping must be
diverted to support q Of continuous offensive,
almost everybody would be satisfied
Isn't that the real reoson2
FASTER LIBERTY SHIPS
Liberty ships being redesiened to give them
more speed This is welcome news for two reasons
u The speed of convoy is controlled by thot Of its
siowest units. Sluggish vessels hold conveys to q
speed that gives the Uboots greater opportunity for
striking Foster Liberty ships will croft, cargo
and soIors' lives.
II Moreover, the slower vessels ore purely wartime
carriers which could hardly compete in postwar