The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-13

the way to solve production prob lens is not through such unWork- able measures but by conference of labor, agriculture, management and government leaders.
 Such a conference, he said, could determine where production is lag ging, where ample facilities and manpower are located and whether increased wages would boost pro- duction.
 Today Murray and spokesmen for most of the big CIO unions met with military and civilian govern ment leaders to give specific recom- mendations and to list certain prac- ticeS which they said were wasting labor and should be corrected.
 The CIO Auto Workers Union, for example, charged the Curtiss- Wright plant at Columbus with fir ing many employees for petty viola tions of the rules
 It said the Yellow Truck and Coach division of General Motors Corp. at Pontiac was trying to get all the women out of the plant and replace them with men" And it said the Army and Navy were not providing work for 700 workers laid off by the Fleetwings division of Kaiser Cargo, Inc, Bristol, Pa.
 Murray and Lewis G. Hines, AFL legislative representative, are sched- uled to bring their stories to the house committee next week
 A joint AFL- Railroad Brother hood conference last night author ized Hines to present to the con- mittee evidence of fragrant vast age of manpoWer and money by federal government agencies and by private industries engaged in war production"
 Chairman Ebert D. Thomas, D., Utah, of the Senate Military Af- fairs committee said he thought the Senate version of the May bill, in- troduced by Sens. Josiah w. Bailey, D., N. C., and Ralph O. Brewster R.. Me, would be considered by his committee although he did not specify date.
 Thomas said he intended to find out Of there was real need' for National Service legislation. I'm going to learn just as much as was told the president when he recom- mended it." he declared.
 T have always opposed National Service, and I think we can turn to it only if it is necessary
 Sen. Edwin c. Johnson, D., Colo, formerly foe of National Service legislation, told reporters he now | favored it to work fight law which he said would do violence | to 4-Fs.'
 It. Gen. William s. Knudsen, Army director of production, told the May committee yesterday he thought workers entering closed shop plants would be bound to join the unions involved.
 May declined to say what he thought about union membership, but some committee members pre- dicted a rousong floor fight over the issue and possible rejection of the entire bill by the house unless the matter is cleared up in com mittee.
 Meanwhile one production off, cial said that on the basis of news paper reports of 4-Fc Hooking to war jobs. many of the 100000 men needed in war plants might be re- cruited voluntarily.
 If a substantial number of avail able 4-Fc get into war work, he added, manpower no longer will be the controlling factor" in muni- tionS production.
 While all this was going on at home, war manpower chairman, Paul w. McNutt, who has been touring the European battlefront, said in Paris that it would be easier for him to fill future manpower peeds If I had a National Service law to help"
 McNutt previously had been op- poshed to National Service legisla- tion, feeling that voluntary meas ures were adequate to supply needed nanpoWer for war production.