The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-19
Manufacturers Leader Sounds
Battle Cry; Have 10 Months
To Turn the Tide, He Says

Exhorting all industry TO recognize the specsr Of
defeat in communicates, William p Wtherow. presi-
dent of National Association Of Manufacturers today ehal
ensed manufacturer rise the supreme test Of
the nation" and turn the tide Of war in the next 10
months.
" A. presidents message TO the associations
oershp written in sober appraisal Of Donald Nelson's
warning that have 10 months TO GO called for end
to all but one fght-against the enemy from without"
I'D rather he without plant. private enterprise or
wealth than to take my orders from Tokyo Witherov de-
eiared. The full text Of the message follows:
There world of meaning in Donald Nelson's
warning that we have 10 months to so-thst the war
would be lost in that time Because my contacts
in Washington this week have only served to emphasize
this warning as most sober appraisal, address this
appeal to our membership:
Members of n. A NJ
The war news isn't good
Only We back home make II better.
"An the heroic MacArthurs in the world can't the
war without guns planes and ships.
only manufacturers can make those materials Of
"0urs is only the responsibility of protecting
homes but the responsibility for the human lives that
stand between and defeat
For the specter of defeat very definitely shows itself
in each communque.
Let's not await another Pearl Harbor before hard
headed realism to that this Ia the supreme
test of the naon-a test American expected to
face:
Manufacturers have responded in this crisis but the
purport of my appeal as your president 10 to say that
Every vespe of business in the ordinary sens. must
fade before this demand Every machine must make its
maximum daily output in constant operation Every plant
that can make anything for war must convert NOW or
neither plant nor country will survive.
81 know the hindrances and the drawbacks but in
all obstacles must be hurdled Whatever the handcaps
let be said that management caused them stood
aside in idle heplessness because of them.
Some day the efforts of this moment will be tried in
all their nakeness before the jury OF the people
let not the verdict of anything less than best soil the
reputation of manufacturers patriotism
This is the moment when experience orderiness ef
fciency and managerial know-how prove themselves
against whatever confusion might prevail
Personally think might just Is well give
all in personal energy, plant production and taxes
10 lose all eventually I'd rather he without plant. private
enterprise wealth than 10 take orders from Tokyo.
mo group has fought vigorously than the manu-
facurers for the preservation of the ideals of freedom
when the attack from within Today those ideals
assailed from without
This is the time for but fght-against the enemy
from without
Save the nation and fight like troopers afterwards
for what you believe that nation should be-
COMPETENCY, born of wealth and q peace minded
people, is today greatest single enemy.
Fellow manufacturer you the behind the
behind the gun.
This is down alley of production.
"Our production chief Donald Nelson, has laid
down the challenge to IL is He has
10 months to meet IT, Ten short months TO turn the
tide to shape the whole Of history for thousand
years. and shape il TO way of life
Never in history has great task been set. But
American industrial management has a long history Of
accepting and meeting challenges
1T will meet this one"