The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-18
Clapper
.. Watches Woshiin,to,
BY RAMOND CIapD,.

1
WASHINGTON, Feb. -
government can't deal y ~, - The
with creation Of an adequeatssp uettspsrly e,
until it can appease tbosa war work
personal pride and prestige ss ,ss Who's.
lvolved. se sfe in.
That mainly is what is h,,,
up this most necessary mova n0aas
Nobody in the whole show s' S,,,,
for an instant that the ,["" go,'o1 oouhs
must steer our labor supply y'iisnsa' u s
production is to have u Fa'
hands to do the work eAo'a
:. Sidney id Hillman, labor dirs,.,,
OF the war production board d'ss's, ,ss.
that to provide the mannoua. says
the presidents production res nre '''
this year, we must add ten p'piIan n,;i'a
workers to the five million .l,.9a aloa
IN war production. Probablv .sac7 .ss
er five million will have IN ba baVa' u,
ded next year. To do that yhiI, DT aa,
the same time supplying NOV Now a. a.
the Army and Navy will ,u4 nn+ s .o'
heaviest kind of strain [r' on NE NE
manpower. vi our
1t can't be done if left to h.,
hazard supply and demand D'p'
Because of new mass prod,,c,;,.
methods in plane building, AN '-v' y,
most unbearable burden vii, i'll d. d.
placed on die making. But vb0s W
you try to get die maksrs ",isa ,!ss
bump into the union rules u.bOa sOa
forbid the using of additional I'-,l ~.
prentice helpers unless the gov.ns
ment guarantees that they will mn.
be allowed to continue at that trad. s,
after the war. That's one irustr.
ton of many.
Hundreds of thousands Of m.,
and women must be trained ',s., nsa
placed in special kinds Of vas ',u
work of a higher grade than bs.
fore. ''' 'e'
The dislocations and Shifting =,
workers from one locality tn aro,b "
er will be tremendous presiSer.
Roosevelt says that the Ford VIII VII
low run bomber plant will reorrs
$4,000 to 100000 workers Imasirs
the shifting of labor supply fs,s
one plant alone will involve Frss
supply and demand breaks dovn
under such dislocations.
| Labor supply ard Army and
Navy drafting and recruhg
are all tangled into one cn
plicated problem of manwEer,
as the British found when Tbey
took men out of industry for
the army and had to return
some of them to their former
jobs later when production fell
down. They placed labor sup.
ply and military manpOwer
under one management in Bey.
ms labor ministry. They call
it the ministry of labor and ma.
. tional service.
Here several agencies have
a finger in the pie in addition
to the Army, Navy and the Sc.
lective service system. There
are the war production boards
labor division the U. S. En-
ployment service, vocational
education, the department Of
Labor's activities and c. c. c,
All agree that some centralized
, administration is necessary. ButN
, erybcdy wants to run it. Paul Me-
! Mutt, head of the Social Security
agency, feels he has prior claim
, because the unemployment AV
ice, which would be the core s@
t labor supply machinery is his
l agency. He has developed NIL
plan which, whoever gets itE
/ probably be adopted.
But Sidney Hillman balks His
, friends say that his former cO-hea
! of OPM, William S. Knudsen, was
: recognized by being made LIEU
, tenant general in charge CT ANN
procurement. They think laoots
representative on the old oPA
should have recognition Laoa
representatives generally feel that
: manpower is their dish and lna'
. labor should be recognized by plsr
t ing one of its own in charge as me
British did in giving that ]oO "
Bevin.
This inside battle has been gong
: on for weeks, with the Army. NAV.
and the selective service oblec'll,s
7 to having their manpoWer Supps
included in the industrial labor SuF
ply scheme. r,.
This week Presidnet Roose's.
is expected to try further 70 ,,'', t.
+, an agreement with his new va
| labor council composed CT a. H., !.
of l.. and C. I. o. representa-. -
who meet with him from 'llA' V
! time. -, h,
AS soon as everybody can ~
nacified the President can y
ahead with this most urgeh' '"'