The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-11-19

ciated by the various organizations
through the Labor Management Pol
| icy Committee of the War Manpower
Commission points the way to effec-
tive use Of available manpower and
womanpower to perform all work
necessary for the war effort and for
vital civilian services through sys-
tenn of voluntary controls.
The first elements toward a prac-
tical approach to solution of man.
power problems were listed in the
statement as follows:
(D Accurate determination of the
facts as to manpower needs and avail
able supply. (2) Decision on the rel
ative urgency for products and serv-
ices by those in Government respon-
sible for procurement and production.
| (3) Determination of the relative
needs of employers for workers in
each area. (4) Removal, by cooper
ative community and Government ac-
ton, of the causes for failure to meet
dlld Ifdliitdlu ICduilCd CIlpiOyiUCIiI
levels in individual establishments.
| 60 Guiding of the flow of available
manpower, by the VINO with labor
management cooperation, to points
where it will contribute most to the
war effort. CO. Balance volume of pro-
duction in any area with the ability to
to supply necessary manpower. (7)
All of these actions must be based
on the initial conceptions that the
agencies of government 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 are the ones to determine
how it shall be done.
The declaration conceded that man
power still is being wasted through
Ineffective usages, through excessive
ly high turnover and through restric-
tive practices. Large numbers of
workers who should do so have not
yet transferred to essential employ
ment, it stated. 1t also declared that
vast unused manpower resources,
especially of employable women, are
still available
The organizations subscribing to
the declaration said they are con-
vinced that the american people will
provide greater output under volun-
tary system than under one of com
pulsion and RECOMMENDATION" They
ascrlbed existing critical situations to
dislocation, mal-distribution of con-
tracts and ineffective use of manpow-
er, rather than to inadequate overall
supply.
"The solution depends upon leader
ship, coordinated and understood
plans and efficient administration; not
upon broadened control and regula-
tion," the statement emphasized.
The seven point program previously
summarized was then proposed. In
addition, the declaration made specific
recommendations to the Government
as follows:
That overlapping agencies and iur-
isdictional interferences be removed
that overall plans and related policies
be formulated at single point and in
such manner as to permit decentra-
llzed administrations that Selective
Service Withdrawals from a State,
county or community be gauged and
timed with the ability to effect re-
placements in activities necessary to
war production or to fulfillment of
| basic civilian needs; the tremendous
numbers of personnel now engaged in
Government red tape be transferred
to useful work by the elimination of
unnecessary forms, reports and in
vestigations; that the War and NAVY
Departments facilitate the return to
war production of those in the armed
services who are overage or qualified
for only limited service or whose spe
clal skllls are more urgently needed
in essential activities; that State Gov
ernors initiate publicity programs
calculated to stimulate maximum com
munity action in connection with pro-
duction and manpower problems.
For their part, the organizations
pledged to produce to the limit, to re-
move basic community causes for
turnover, to reduce absenteeism, to
eliminate manpower boarding and re-
strictlve practices, to improve per-
man productivity, to train workers in
new skills and upgrade them, to
lengthen hours of work when neces-
sary and to enlist every possible
source of new labor in shortage areas.