The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-06-04

Speaking before large group of sportsmen and conservationsts the occasion of the annual din ner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America, he declared that if he could have his way, every man and woman the war production line would be compelled to spend every seventh day in the out doors hunting fishing preferably, but out in the open where they best can recharee their mental and bodily batteries
 He also charged that much of the present day absenteeism in production plants is directly due to failure of mental and physical energies brought on by too many hours and too many days spent on the job without the proper kind of rest
 He declared that there was actually a. very small percentage of willful abseneesm in our war produc tion and that this kind of absenteeism speedily be checked by prompt and drastic measures such as immediate discharge following due warning and the turning over of the names of such men to their re- spective draft boards
 Getting back to the greater problem, that of keeping men and women on the job and at the top of their production energy, he declared that for the long haul no war worker should be permitted to re- main at his job more than six days week and ex- cept under very special conditions should not be per mtted to work on that job at a maximum of more than 48 hours week
 Only under such plan, he asserted, can the top production of war materials be reached in this country.
 Explaining further why absenteeism is to result if such plan is not followed he said that if on the production line be allowed to work for many days on a stretch, they finally reach point where neither mind nor body will function properly and as a result you can expect both mistakes, some of them costly to the effort, and accidents brought on by refexes that have been slowed up by fatigue
 Such men, he explained must then take a day off and too often they this period of freedom, not seeking renewed energies out in the open where they best recharge both mental and physical energies but in places of amusement where only is the air far from pure but where overindulgence is brought on primarily by the very exhaustion of their mind and body.
 Too often, he explained when their day of lib- erty is over. they unfit in either mind body to return to the job Not only do they fail to do a actually become a menace to their fellow workmen and the whole effort
 Because of this break down in energy, the next step extending their absence from the job first two days and then three and soon they wholly undependable and of little actual worth to the pro- duction at which they work.
 In closing, MT. Martin declared that forced to take each seventh day as a holiday from their war job and taught how best to utilize their time away from the job to keep them fit, these would soon be hanging up records for production in their plants and absenteeism would cease to become factor in war production
 MT. Martin concluded his remarks by declaring that the Congress of the United States and the machinery of the country had not yet learned this lesson but that they must speedily do so if they are to see their manpower geared up for full pro- duction the long period stretching ahead.