The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-01

ket.' Yet it is recognized too much
speed might create an interim OF
unemployment.
To forestall shutdowns, RFC
board member Sam Husbands says.
The RFC has already allowed
some war paints. for an interim per:
iod not to exceed 80 days, TO con.
tinue manufacturing while pros
pective purchasers or lessees are
deciding on the best means OF re-
converting to. peacetime produo.
ton.
These war plants present com
plicated and wide.varying prob
lens. Sometimes the lease-holder
wants to keep the plant and lessees
have been given options. other
purchasers cannot bid until the
property is declared surplus
Each plant, the RFC has discov-
cred. must be handled individually.
No one pattern OF disposal tits all.
Each was designed TO do a different
kind OF war job and that meant
each plant varied widely in such
things as floor space, height Of
ceilings, kind OF equipment. Some
reconvert easily but others will be
useless and the best answers may
be to tear down the structures.
What happens affects the en-
ployment balance in each Michigan
town.
Haskelite Co. (s2,705,947). Grand
Rapids; The Bohn Aluminium and
Brass Co. ($60O.OOO) at Adrian:
the Brunswick, Balke-Collender
plant S1S3.OO0) at Muskegon; The
Bay City Dow Chemical Magnesi-
UNI plant sl,S49,320.S0); The Argus
Inc, Optical instruments plant
S195,000) at Ann Arbor; The Auto
Specialties Mfg. Co. ($3,7l5.000l at
St Joseph; The Malleable Iron Co.
Of Albion; Hanchett MIG. Co, ro-
tary grinders $500, 900), Big Rap
ids; Eaton Manufacturing Co. Bat
tie Creek.
Parents OF sons returning from
the Pacific theater are beseeching
the War Department. Tell
us exactly when and where our
sons will land on the West Coast"
Such advance notice has been
coming through smoothly from the
European theater, but not so from
the Pacific. Hundreds OF families
have travelled sometimes clear
across the country, only to find
their John either wasn't locked
where expected and too often that
he wasn't even on board.
The War Department is sorry"
and is trying to set up the same
system of notification now operat-
ing on the East Coast" The prob
lem, however. is more difficult.
The Pacific is a big place.
pick-ups sometimes are made from
small remote islands, where there
Is no mimeograph 10 grind out the
list of personnel to be sent on
ahead by cable or by air.
Besides many are brought back
by the Navy. which frowns upon
advance notification when the
Navy brings back men, only the
name OF the ship is given out.
not the debarkation point. When
the men reach the debarkation
camps then the news Is sent to the
families. The Navy requests fami-
lies not to go to the ports. as his
Jams the transportation facilities
so much that It is difficult for the
men to reach the debarkation
camps. The Merchant Marine ships
are being utilized, too. and that
adds to the confusion.
As for the Army, great effort
Is being made to get the where.
when. and who sent on ahead so
the families will be kept alerted.
A War Department spokesman
said: After all we had the same
trouble at first on the East Coast.
Il takes a little time to get the
system working smoothly"
On october . Clio leaders will
bring Labor delegation rom
Michigan to put "the heat" on the
Michigan delegation for action on
certain reconversion legislation.
Topping the list is employment
bill the lifting of minimum wage
from 40 to 65 cents an hour, and
unemployment benefits (Which
looks hopeless but the clio hasn't
given up and are urging a petition
TO overcome the House WAYS and