Evening star., 1942-02-10
Best Efforts Of All
Seen byMcNutta as
Vital 10 Victory
Forum Speaker Points
To Methods to Assure
Monpower Efficiency

Monpower Efficiency
The best efforts of every American
citizen are needed to protect hom
and heritage against the enemy, Pau
v. McNutt, Federal security admin
1strator, said last night in the Ma
tional Radio Forum, sponsored b,
The Star
Mr.. McNutt's talk was broadcas
over a Nationwide hookup of tn,
blue network and was heard locally
over Station WMAL.
The text of his speech follows:
America needs every man on tn,
famparts Of freedom.
Sweating through steaming Jun.
giles with leaden packs.
Plotting fortresses into the strato.
sphere.
Planting their feet firmly upor
the decks Of mighty ships.
Diving into the dark depths IL
submarines.
Tending lathes, driving rivets.
Filling the land.
Planning and supervising.
From the Commander in Chief te
the humblet manual worker, our best
ehort is needed to protect home and
heritage. In such a cause every task
is worth doing well. If your work is
not publicized. that does not mean
that the laborer Is not worthy OF
his hire.
America Is its men and its women
and the Nation is no stronger than
their combined power.
Gigantic Man Power Supply.
The gigantic task of supplying man
power for the war industries, for the
armed forces and for the essential
civilian production must be assigned
in the most productive way to the
appropriate people. This will save
precious time and time Is the essence
Of victory.
Our goals for 1912 are set: 10000
planes, $4,000 tanks, 10000 anti
aircraft guns. 100000 tons OF
shipping.
These are just the large orders
ne also have set goals for anti-tank
guns machine guns, rifles, munitions
and the myriad other items neces-
Sary to wage war.
What does this mean in terms
OF the men who will produce these
sinews Of war?
We are told that it means 10000 900
more workers In war industries BY
the end Of the year than there were
In December. This increase must
come at the same time that we are
adding substantially to the numbers
IN the armed forces. That is a goal
as definite as the number of planes
or tanks or ships.
In December there were So, 900 900
workers in the labor force. The num-
Der OF people of working age in
creases about 100000 every year
This Is the general man power
framework with which we have to
do the job.
Several Limited Sources.
The labor force can, to a limited
degree, be increased. We can abb
sorb the remaining unemployed and
should bend every effort to do so.
We can bring more women into
war work and farm work, but there
Is a limit beyond which the employ
ment of women will endanger sound
family life.
We can employ larger proportion
OF young people, and in many in
stances colleges are shortening their
courses to put students to work
sooner; but, from a longtime view
point, 1t is important that certain
groups of students who are preparing
for essential professions should re-
main In school until their training
Is complete.
We can postpone the age of re-
tirement to some extent, but this
source of extra labor is limited by
nature.
We can and should rehabilitate
FOR industry as many handicapped
people as possible.
All Of these measures, however,
will not add the number required for
this desperate drive for production.
should add that in areas surround
ing many centers Of war production
these extra sources OF supply have
already been used up. Millions of
the workers needed for war pro-
duction will have to be shifted from
civilian production.
Voluntary response of Uncle Sans
sons and daughters, whether for
the battle line or the assembly line,
has been most satisfactory. But
there are complex problems involved
which cannot be solved by the ran
dom efforts of millions Of undirected
individuals.
Drastic Readjustment.
The dilemmas which we have al
ready faced will pale beside those
which we are yet to face in mobil-
izing all man power. There are
many questions of broad policy to
be worked out Last year America
followed the path of easy expansion.
We speedily put to work idle men,
idle plants, Idle stock piles. We
experienced boom conditions. This
year the going will be tougher. We
enter a period of priorities, of bot
tlenecks, OF tremendous shifts from
civilian to military employment. The
readjustment will be drastic and
self-sacrifice will be called for in
many instances.
The early days of war preparation
were days Of rapid movement. First
came the builders-men who built
machine tools, expanded factories
or raised barracks. From the four
corners Of the Nation they came
together to live in shacks, in trailers,
in tents, in anything which would
keep off the rain while their scream
ing saws and pounding hammers
erected the structure for war.
Then came the laborers-men and
women who tended machines. who
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