Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-25
Output Rise
In February
Sets Record
But Production Drops
Short Of Quota
BY PAUL MALLON

10 the Presidents war objec-
tlves, but II was II per cent
over January and registered the
most rapid rise Of any month
since defense started
Total expenditure: $1,000, 000.-
600. Lack of sufficient parts.
scrap and some materials kept
II from being more.
The first quarter will thus be
thrown behind the Presidents
goals, and added speed the next
three quarters will be necessary.
GONE army and navy produc-
~ ton officials assistant sec
retarieS Patterson, Bard. etc.
have met with Labor Secretary
Perkins 10 try 10 start a state
ment of government labor policy.
They not getting fafs.------------
Miss Perkins thought about
the only thing she could put in
such statement, is that strikes
last week involved only one
thrce-hundredths Of per cent
of defense workers something
like IS men).
This is true, but il so hap
pens these men were making
precision parts for bomb and
gun sights.
One reason why labor discus
sion has reached such a high
pitch al this time (aside from
the few slow downs and strikes)
is that many large wage and
hour contracts are coming due.
IT is the custom of fulminators
L now 10 explode daily with
fears about what AXIS propa-
ganda is doing 10 us, but a swift
analytical look al what is COM
ing out Of Berlin, Rome and
Toxic will show il is mostly rat
cheese. Lift your nostrils to
these following typical excerpts:
NAZIS-"The North Ameri-
can continent stands today I'M
der the menace OF a cataclysm
horrendous In Its potentialities.
The cataclysm Is Jewish boil
shevism communism" (Same
old stuff.
There Is yet an eleventh
hour chance to tear the FIVE
pointed star Of Moscow from
the dome of the Capitol and to
purge our splendid land of Its
traducers."
tHo hum, there are still AZ
stars in the flag on the Capitol
dome.)
DOME: 1.-THE spirit Of the
~ American people reminds
us Of the spirit OF France I'm the
Winter OF 80 and 40 Con-
gress refused to modify the law
limiting the work week to 40
hours"
Notice this is exactly oppo-
site what Berlin broadcast and
enormously claims work is
limited to 40-hour week.
JAP COMMENTATOR: "Your
country would have done better
to have followed Hoover: There
was security In his policy of
moderation"
THE only thing significant In
l. all this is that il would not
fool a 2-day-old mouse and its
import is altogether different
from the domestic objections
you hear from critics of this gov
eminent in this country.
More serious than this type Of
Axis propaganda, TO the success
OF our production war effort. is
the better-intended misinforma-
ton circulated by some of our
own hair-triggered Zealots.
The following is an example
from the New York newspaper
PM, in an article signed John
A Rice:
THE revolution Is on now.
Donald Nelson began IL when he
announced that I'm defense indus
tries the bOss-worker relation
ship was over. that IL would no
longer be one bossing and the
other bossed, but both working
together as equals
IF THERE is one thing which
could tear down our war eff
fort faster than any other, il is
the acceptance of this unfounded
doctrine. Nelson never said any,
thing like it. He said the oppo-
site.
He has repeated al least three
times in speeches and elsewhere
that his labor-management COM
mitteeS are not designed TO let
labor invade the management
field or the management invade
labor'S. but were solely designed
TO promote cooperation for pro.
duction
Extreme caution has been
practiced by Nelson 10 keep this
erroneous impression from en-
couraging the suspicious of some
managers that they might be
losing control of their business
by following this program.
II such contrary statements
inspired workers 10 try TO be-
come bosses instead of producers
and teased our soldiers OF pro-
duction into trying TO become
generals. they would cause more
trouble on the production battle
line than the Axis has been able
10 do yet.
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