The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-15
Lobor SeIfishness Loshed
in Searching Analysis
Government Agencies Accused
Government Agencies Accused
Of 'Bursouerotie Red Tops'

tary production even attempted.
4. That q concerted effort
should be made to use al the
facilities Of small manufacturers
in defense production.
VOICE CONFIDENCE
Expressing full confidence
that the war could be won II
proper remedial steps were TAX
en-. the committee asked . re-
organization Of the office Of
production management TO do
away with the "dollar-a-year"
officials. This recommendation
was already In type Tuesday
when President Roosevelt an
nounced reorganization Of the
war production system with
Donald M. Nelson, former mail
order executive, at the helm.
Made public by Chairman
Truman (D-Mo), the report
warned that:
"Carelessness and inefficiency
have already cost US grea (
deal and, if continued. can cost
US much more, even though in
the long run we will win the
war because Of the sheer extent
~ MN rasn,,r~o~
The committee said prospects
for future airplane production
were mot too good" and added
that radical changes In methods
must be made to meet the mill
tary demand.
Apparently, there never has
been and is not now any real
planned and coordinated pro-
gram for the production of air
craft" the report said.
ROUTINE PLANS
"Our services (The Army and
Navy have merely purchased
what the manufacturers had to
offer instead of planning to use
available facilities to produce
what they needed At maximum
capacity"
The committee reported that
the Army and Navy, always
|" extremely reluctant to
accept and develop new ideas, +"
were tardy in adopting multiple
machine guns. bullet-proof gas
oline tanks. modern gun tur-
refs and other wartime avia-
ton developments.
ION the drawing boards we
have many h & h-performing
pursuit ships" the report said.
"But in January 1912 very few
will be produced which can be
considered better than mediocre,
and there will be no long-range
pursuits, q type 50 vitality need
ed for our present operations"
The committee complained
that 10 favored manufacturers"
of airplanes had received the
bulk of orders and loans, with
so other aircraft companies un-
able to get any substantial con-
tracts.
In asking reorganization Of
the OPM, the committee said
that "the practise of diffusing
responsibility commonly refer
red to as The Old Army Game
must not be tolerated" II
said that as of Jan. 5 there
were 255 dollar-a-year men
working for the OPM, and 631
others employed without COM
pensation.
TERMED LOBBYISTS
Because they dealt with mat
tiers involving the class of
clients by whom thew were
formerly employed and by
whom they naturally expect to
be employed in the futuree,"
the report said, they could be
termed lobbyists "in q new real
sense"
"The committee believes that
the government should not con-
tinue to accept the loan of dol
lar-a-yeax and VOC. without
compensation men by compan-
les with so large a stake in the
defense program
mo man can honestly serve
two masters"
Observing that the defense
program has been handicapped
by unnecessary strikes, the
committee reported that there
was currently less obstruction
from this source than in an
earlier period, it added, how
ever:
Labor, as well as industry,
must assume responsibility for
the meager production Of de-
Tense articles. Both labor and
industry have been too much
concerned with their own in
terests and too little concerned
with the national welfare. Larg-
er wages and profits will be OF
no use to either labor or in
dustry X the war Is lost"
CITES DISTRUSTS
In urging greater use OF the
facilities of small manufacture