The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
AMERICANS NEED
HARD JOB AHEAD
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Planned and directed: executed,
managed and toiled to produce this
result.
Our plans call, however, for
something more than great armies,
surface fleets and an air force that
is the master Ct the skies in every
theater where it is now operating.
Our plans call for an air force
which can reach the heart of our
two enemies and strike them NOR
tally. That is why the aircraft in
dustry Is not yet on its ultimate
basis. That is why the problem of
the aircraft industry is to get a
still greater expansion. That is
why, though we produced over T.
zoe planes in July, we are calling
for 5000 and 5000, and then 10000
planes of increasing size and fire.
power by the end of this year.
Once we see this, we see that
our problem is in fact how to carry
out the great enterprise of form
ing quickly, and therefore at the
smallest cost in lives and treasure,
IN absolutely crushing air power
which will fall, aas a sailor put 1t
who saw Pantelleria bombed, like
the wrath of God upon the shud-
dering earth. If it Is to be done,
then from the bomber stations to
the assembly lines, men must know
what they have to do. And they
must know why.
There will be needed in the next
few months an additional $4,000
men and women for aircraft and
aircraft parts. Let US realize what
We are asking Our schedules for
the second half of this year call
..or planes which in materials and
in hours of work to make them
are over 80 per cent larger than
The planes made in the first half
Of the year. No industry has ever
made such a demand in so short
a time upon the organizing genius
of its managers and upon the work
ct. its men.
They are entitled to and they
raust Eave ttc intelligent support
# our people if they are to master
their task. Those additional work
ELS must come from somewhere:
we have no slave labor to draw
upon, we have only the labor of
or own people. We need, there
fore, much less denagogic ad-
rainistration Of the selective Serv-
ice law, not for the purpose of
drafting fathers pell-mell into the
army, but in order to bring it about
tnat men deferred because they
are fathers ave also induced to do
necessary war work at home. 1t
is desirable to defer fathers from
The army as long as possible. But
II is not necessary or desirable to
give them a blanket deferment
from war industry as well.
We need, also, a revision Of the
banker deferments of whole
classes of workers SO that men
classified as essential can be
drawn IN an order of priorities into
these industries which, like the air.
craft, are mole essential than 9TH
ers.
We need also to recognize that
ine managers and the workers in
the war industries should be pro-
tected as far as we can against
personal anxiety. 1t is beyond
dispute that no man here at home
is making any sacrifice compara-
BILE with that ct the man who leave
his family, goes abroad, and risks
his life. But it is also true that
those VINO wcrk in the war indus
tries are taking greater risks than
those Of us who continue in our
ordinary jobs.
They have had to make greater
effort: they live, most of them, in
great discomfort; they get more
brickbats from those who do not
like business or do not like labor
than they get bouquets from the
people they are serving so well;
and they do not know what will
happen to them if, suddenly, the
War ends.
We should at once take definite
measures to put their minds at
ease.