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Conrao cooper, assistant vice
president of the Wheeling Steel
corporation; Frederick C. Craw-
ford, president of the National
Association of Manufacturers:
and Eric A. Johnston of Spo-
kane, president of the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce; for la
bor-H. w. Frazer, president of
the Railway Conductors of Am
erica; William Green, president
of the ALL; and Phillip Murray,
president of the CLIO; for agri-
culture-Albert S. Goss, master
of the National Grange; Edward
A. O'Neal, president of the Am
erican Farm bureau; and James
G. Patton, president of the Ma
tional Farmers Union.
Last July this committee was
delegated to study national war
service legislation "by way of
preparation should such legisla-
ton become necessary to the
successful prosecution of the
war" The report is submitted to
Montana USES offices through
Q. c. Lamport, state manpower
director.
The findings the summarized
as follows:
Manpower Is being wasted
through ineffective usages in
some quarters, through excess
sively high turnover in others,
and through restrictive prac-
tices in still others.
! Large numbers of workers
who should do so have not yet
transferred into work necessary
in time of war.
Vast unused manpower re-
sources of longer hours of work,
improved performance of work
ers and employable women are
still available.
The American people will pro-
vide greater output under a
voluntary system than under
one of compulsory regimenta-
ton.
The present critical manpower
situations are results of dislo-
cation, mal-distribution of con-
tracts and ineffective manpow-
er utilization rather than an
inadequate overall supply of
labor.
The solution depends upon
leadership, coordinated and I'M
derStOOd plans, and efficient ad-
ministration, not upon broad
ened control and CIRCULATION.
BY implication the committee
report approves the methods
and efforts of the VINO and its
head, Paul v. McNutt, saying
that out of the experiences of
the commission has emerged a
practical approach that is basic
to the solution of any critical
war manpower problem, whether
it be local or national in char
acter."
Elements of the approach in
clude:
Facts of manpower need and
supply must be determined-co-
operation of the VINO, manage
ment and labor has developed
toward reasonable human &C
curacy in this field.
Relative urgency for products
and services must be determined
in light Of actual war needs;
localized study of this urgency
by procurement agents and pro-
duction managers is indicated.
Relative needs of employers
for workers must be determined
by area, through consultation
of VINO with management-la-
Dor representatives and with
procurement and production ag-
encieS.
Identify and remove causes
for failure to meet and to main
tain required employment lev
els in individual establishments
involved in war production.
Guide the flow of available
manpower to the points where
it will contribute most to the
war effort.
Allocate or retain production
volume in balance with ability
to supply required manpower in
the given locality.
) Correlation of government &C
! Invites to these ends should be
based upon the initial concep-
tons that these agencies are to
serve the people by informing
them what has to be done, when
and where it must be done, and
that the people of the nation
then determine how it is to be
done.
.five-fold program is suggest
ed, including assignments to the
Office of War Mobilization, to
the VINO, to Selective Service
to the war and navy depart
ments and to the governors of
the several states.
In essence this would include:
Continuing ~reapraisal by the
OWN Of national production re-
! Quirments as related to man
power supply for information of
the nation, continuing explor-
alton of functions of govern
mental agencies concerned with
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