Evening star., 1945-04-29
ii More Controls
Over Industry Are
Revoked by WPB
~ the Associated Press.

Inc war production Board re.
voked Il more wartime industria
controls yesterday as reconyer.
sion activity surged ahead in ster
with developments in Europe.
AT least a score more orders
limiting various types of civilian
manufacturing activity, are sched.
uled for the scrap heap within the
next week, preparatory to create,
relaxations- after We day.
WPB announced 18 of yesterday s
revocations but its information d.
vision was unable to keep up with
the flow. Twenty-three more ac-
tions were filed with the Federal
Register, official gazette, just before
1t closed its books for the day.
Little Aid to Civilians.
The effect on civilian supplies
will be slight, however, since none
OF the major curbs, like those ban
ming automobile and refrigerator
production, were lifted. Still an
other obstacle will prevent manu.
facturers from getting full benefit of
the, relaxations-the all-important
system for rationing materials re-
mains in effect.
Major result of these initial steps,
therefore, was to put manufacturers
In position to 60 ahead with expan-
sion OF peacetime products as soon
as munitions cutbacks make mate
rails available, at which time the
WPB can relax its materials alloca-
ton machinery.
Twelve of the revocations filed
late in the day affected steel mills.
They removed wartime restrictions
on the size and type of that many
types Of steel products, including
railroad rails, pipes and reinforcing
steel for construction jobs.
Another one cancelled the order
controlling manufactured gas pro-
duction and delivery, under which
supplies to some consumers have
been restricted and utility COM
panies require to produce their
maximum output.
Taking cognizance of possible un-
employment during the partial shift
Of the Nations economy to peace
time production, WPB also an
nounced two-month series of con-
ferences here with some 300 labor
leaders in "all fields of American
industry" starting May 7. Discus
sions already are underway on
reconversion with management
spokesmen for 10 major manufac-
turing industries.
WPB Chairman j. A. Krug an
nounced that his co-ordinator of
automotive reconversion, Henry p.
Nelson, would open meetings in
Detroit Tuesday with the CIOI
United Automobile Workers on prob
lens which will arise when war
production is scaled down to al
one-front war basis.
This problem was highlghted
yesterday when an Army Air Forces
spokesman disclosed, after a meet
ing with UAW leaders, that no
production is now in sight for the
giant Ford Willow Run bomber
plant at Detroit when the making
of B-24 Liberators stops August /.
Production, meanwhile, will be on
. reduced basis. The Ford Co.
said yesterday it would inaugurate
. single-shift,. 40-hour week sched-
ule tomorrow
Many Orders Arriving.
The Detroit parleys will stress
steps taken to shorten the period
Of unemployment and plant shut
downs during retooling and recon-
version.
The machine tool industry, newly
authorized to take orders for peace
time plant equipment, meanwhile
reported that many orders" al
ready were arriving. The tool max
ers expressed doubt, however, that
they could boost output beyond the
high level of last month, when they
were busy with military work al
most exclusively.
The WPB started its job of un-
taflgling the web of wartime con-
trolls at the highest speed possible
In view of the complexity of its
regulations governing the manufac-
ture, sale and distribution of civil
Ian goods.
The agency dispensed with its
normal 72-hour waiting period"
during which officials may file OBJ
lection before an order Is can
eelled.
The regulations revoked were
minor ones, for the most part, in
point Of the volume of civilian pro-
duction concerned and employment
IN the affected factories.
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