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Thursday, December 11, 11)41
LABOR NEWS
FROM BRITAIN
VITAL JOBS EXEMPT
TECHNICIANS NEEDED
London.—Strenuous measures are
being taken by Ministers responsible
for the organization of British man
power to grapple with their biggest
problem—how to find men for the
fighting services and at the same time
provide industry with sufficient com
petent labor for war production.
Important aspects of this problem
are under discussion between the Min
ister of Labor and the joint consulta
tive committee representing the T. U.
C. General Council and the British
Employers' Confederation, of which
the Minister is chairman. The Min
ister is expected to explain, in par
ticular, proposals he has in mind for
altering the basis of the scheme for
the reservation of key men in essen
tial trades.
This is a very difficult question
Reservation has hitherto been operat
ed on an occupational basis. That is
to say, key men have been kept out
of the armed forces in accordance
with a scheme which fixed a block
reservation within certain age limits,
irrespective of the particular job an
individual might be doing and even of
the industry in which he might be en
gaged.
Block Reservation to Go
The scheme was designed to pre
vent the reservoir of skilled labor be
ing drained by recruitment for the
fighting forces or the civilian defense
services. Thus, to take an example,
carpenters and joiners were reserved
en bloc at the prescribed age (origin
ally 25 in this case) and there are
several scores of categories of skilled
men in the engineering and metal
working trades to whom the same
principle of block reservation was ap
plied.
What the Minister now proposes is
a departure from the system of block
reservation. A new system of indi
vidual reservation is to be introduced.
Under this new scheme even a man of
the highest and rarest skill will be re
tained in war industry solely by rea
son of the specific job he is doing
and it must be a job of vital neces
sity to the war effort.
This method of individual selection
will be applied, of course, to men of
military age. And equally it does not
mean that skilled men who are "de
reserved," on the ground that the
work they are doing in civilian trades
can be left to others, will simply be
swept in to army or the navy on
very important purpose of the scheme
is to provide competent personnel for
the service trades.
Men Who Cannot Be Spared
All three services are crying out for
more skilled men for maintenance
servicing and repair work. Industry
must yield up its reserves of skilled
labor to meet these needs. Men of
military age who are retained in the
war trades will be literally only those
who cannot be spared, whose jobs
can't be done by anybody else.
Naturally, the trade unions are
somewhat perturbed about this dras
tic change. But with the strong com
mon sense that has marked their at
titude towards the Ministry's policy
throughout the war, the unions are
ready to make the best of it. They
are not making difficulties. They re
alize, for one thing, that Ernest Bevin
is striving mightily to operate an en
lightened and farseeing policy which
will conserve and protect labor under
conditions of intensive' production
such as British industry must face in
the third winter of war.
Recently, Ernest Bevin told a gath
ering of nearly a thousand production
engineers that the serious difficulties
arising out of irregular and prolonged
hours of work must be avoided this
winter. He declared his conviction
that the long hours worked, in the
most trying circumstances, in the last
two blackout years, had had a bad
effect on total production.
Excessive Hours—Smaller Output
This view is confirmed by the high
authority of the chief inspector of fac
tories, in his recently published
report
dealing with the experience of indus
try in If40. The chief inspector
has
no hesitation in saying that experi
ence in 1910 showed that one of the
most valuable lessons of the war had
been forgotten or imperfectly under
stood.
That was the lesson that excessive
hours of work meant less production
and that proper breaks and rest days
were of great importance from the
production standpoint. A special chap
ter in his report, written by the
deputy chief inspector, provides the
actual evidence.
Cases are cited of firms which
changed over from the 5
*4-day week
to the 7-day week and instituted total
working hours in excess of 60. After
four weeks there were obvious signs
of flagging, and marked increases of
absenteeism. To counteract this in
one plant, work was stopped on every
fourth week-end, but this brought no
improvement in output, and finally the
plant reverted to the 5'2-day weel
with immediate increased production
Absenteeism Cut By Half
Another case cited is that of a fac
tory where 650 men and 100 women
were working a 7-day week of 64
hours. Records showed that as man
as 100
workers
were absent on a par
ticular day. Working hours were re
duced to 56 and work was stopped on
Saturday afternoons and Sundays. Ab
.sentoeism was cut at once by half and
went on decreasing, while production
was increased. Other cases, even more
significant in their implication, are re
corded.
What we art seeiJig.iiuw is. a tlruug
Information On
Social Security
Federal Security Administrator Paul
V. McNutt announced today that more
than a quarter million additional
workers are scheduled to be hired by
March 1, while 67,000 are expected to
be laid off, in the 9,900 defense manu
facturing plants whose labor needs
are regularly surveyed by the Bureau
of Employment Security of the Social
Security Board, and its affiliated state
employment services.
More than 70 per cent of. the ex
pected lay-offs were reported by auto
and auto equipment companies. How
ever, the net reduction in employment
in this industry will probably be con
siderably smaller, Mr. McNutt said,
since these same companies scheduled
more than 10,000 new hires for Sep
tember and October, and an addi
tional 10,SCO during the four months
ending March 1.
Mr. McNutt explained that the
paradox of such large numbers of both
hires and lay-offs within the industry
is probably due to the expected hiring
of workers for tank, truck, aircraft,
and airplane parts production at the
same time that workers ordinarily en
gaged in auto production will be re
leased. Many auto workers who will
be laid off, the Administrator said,
will require some retraining before
they can be effectively used to turn
out these new products.
Industries producing iron and steel
and their products expect 24,800 new
hires and 7,000 layoff's during the four
months ending March 1. Tire and
inner tube, and industrial rubber
goods plants anticipate small net re
ductions in employment. In the case
of iron and steel, Mr. McNutt at
tributed most of the expected layoffs
to restrictions on the manufacture of
non-defense consumer goods which re
quire the use of iron and steel in their
processing. He stated, moreover, that
the steel industry may have to cur
tail its production rate before the end
of the year because of the shortage
of scrap. Reports from employers in
dicated, he said, that the expansion
of steel capacity will not be complet
ed soon enough to offset the scrap
shortage.
The 255,000 hires scheduled for the
period November 1-March 1 by the
9,000 plants included in the survey
represent a decline from previous hir
ing rates. As in the past, however
aircraft and shipbuilding will continue
to employ large numbers of additional
workers. These two industries to
gether expect to take on 145,000 ad
ditional workers—almost 60 per cent
of all hires—raising their net employ
ment 32 and 37 per cent, respectively
above September levels. An additional
18 per cent of the total number of
anticipated hires was reported by en
ployers in the iron and steel and non
electrical machinery industries where
more than 47,000 additional workers
will be needed in the next four
months. Other industries in which a
substantial number of hires are
scheduled are ammunition with about
18,CC0 and electrical machinery with
13,700.
Almost one-third of the total num
ber of workers to be taken on will be
needed in four States—Michigan, New
York, Ohio and Pennsylvania—centers
of the iron and steel and non-electrical
machinery industries. Some 37.000 ad
ditional workers are expected to be
employed before March in California
important center of ship and plane
production. Expansion of activity in
ship and aircraft production also ac
counts for the large number of antici
pated hires in Maryland, wheie 15,600
additional workers will be required
Michigan, where automobile produc
tion is the outstanding activity, is the
only State which anticipates a signifi
cantly larger number of layoffs than
of hires by March 1.
Among skilled workers, the types
most in demand will be machine sho|
machinists, arc welders, and aircraf
sheet metal workers. In the seim
s k i e o u e e a e s n e e v
wm
i
be for detail assemblers and rivet- i
for the aircraft industry. Mr. McNir.
stated that the supply of experience'
workers for such jobs has been
pleted for some time, so that th
future needs will probably have to
met through special recruitment i
forts by the State employment
fices, as well as by upgrading am
training. Among the unskilled oc
pations, the demand is expected to
heaviest for process laborers in s
and boat-building and repairing, r.
chine shop work, and aircraft mam',
facturing.
GOT THE MONKEY
There was a certain amount of in
always very friendly rivalry betwo
the congregations of the two church"
in the small Highland village, at
when one of them installed a hanii
some new organ, feeling ran von
high.
It was not long before the pe.:
parish official of the organless chur
encountered his opposite number i
the street.
"So ye hae an organ," he s&n
"A'ye need the noo is a monkey."
"Ay," was the calm reply, "and
ye need ower yonder is an organ/^
effort on the part of the governm
to relate these lessons to the mana
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Union Labor Life Ins. Co.
Elects Moloney Secretary
New York, N. Y.—Matthew Woll,
president of the Union Labor Life In
surance Company, announced the elec
tion, at a meeting of the company's
executive committee, of James P. Ma
loney, president of the Glass Bottle
Blowers' Association of the United
States and Canada, to the office of
secretary-treasuror of the company.
Mr. Maloney succeeds the late Thomas
E. Burke, who was also secretary
treasurer of the United Association of
Plumbers and Steam Fitters of the
United States and Canada.
Andrew A. Myrup, secretary-treas
urer of the Bakery and Confectionery
Workers' International Union, was
elected vice president and assistant
secretary-treasurer, filling the office
made vacant by the death of Thomas
A. Rickert, who was president of the
United Garment Workers of America.
The executive committee also elected
Joseph P. McCurdy, president of the
United Garment Workers of America,
and Martin E. Durkin, present secre
tary-treasurer of the United Associa
tion of Plumbers and Steam Fitters,
to the company's board of directors
and executive committee.
Mr. Woll stated that due to the in
creased cost of living the salaries of
all employes had been increased. He
said the company is enjoying one of
the most prosperous years of its
existence and that it has now $81,598,
736 of group and individual insurance
in force.
The executive committee voted to
continue the company's present divi
dend formula for individual policies
for the year 1942.
FLATTENED HIM
Mrs. Simpkins (after relating the
excruciating details of her appendix
operation to her dinner companion at
a party): "You say your uncle had a
terrible accident last month?"
Dinner Companion: "Yes, a steam
rolier ran over him."
Mrs. Simpkins: "Horrors! What did
you do?"
Dinner Companion: "I ran with him
to the doctor's office in the next block.
But the doctor had gone to lunch."
"When did you do then?"
"1 slipped him under the door, and
a n I n i I 1 1 e i s i
v
ed
v
ment of available labor resources.
The immediate objectives of
Minister of Labor, in accord with ii
long-term policy, are to distribute i
skilled men for essential work wh'
ever it has to be done, whether in t!
services or in the war trades, and
secure continuous production withiu
driving the workers to the point
exhaustion by excessive hours of
labor.
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THE POTTERS HERALD
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Garbo meets her love rival, in the person of Constance Bennett, while Melvyn Douglas and Robert
Sterling wait for the fireworks to begin! The gay quartet are currently to be seen on the Ceramic creui.
in '"Two-Faced Woman," Garbo's new M-G-M comedy, in which she skiis, swims, cooks—and even does
a rhumba! The plot's about a dowdy girl who has to invent a glamorous twin sister in order to prevent
her husband from falling into the clutches of a scheming rival. Roland Young and Ruth Gordon are
others in the cast. The picture opens Saturday for four days.
Straight From
Washington
By STEPHEN M. YOUNG
Congressman at Large, Ohio
Washington. The United States
has always adhered to the principle
of freedom of the seas. The fact that
it voluntarily agreed to limit this
principle temporarily as a sacrfiice to
prevent war, did not mean that it
should be done indefinitely. We have
found that this surrender was in vain.
American vessels have been attacked.
The "Lehigh" was sunk in daylight
hundreds of miles from any war zone.
For the maintenance of our national
honor we should see that the seas are
free to the American flag in every
part of the world. To do otherwise is
to give the mastery of the world to
other nations and permit ourselves to
be placed under the domination of
those who would be our enemies. It
appears that Hitler proposes with his
raiders and submarines to drive our
shipping from the seas. The answer
is to put our shipping on the seas.
Goodj^Jjlea?
In the United States there are 90,
000 statues and memorials to men on
horseback, soldiers, sailors, politicians
and occasions. Some of these me
morials are very terrible. Here are
nearly one million tons of metal—
many welded into atrocious monstrosi
ties. Why not take over if necessary
and use some of this vast amount of
metal for national defense purposes?
A commission could be created to save
the worth-while and beautiful and
convert the useless and ugly into
bombs, shells and tanks to save de
mocracy.
History
In the defense Russians are making
to keep their country from domination
by Hitler we are witnessing the re
birth of a great nation, traditionall.
the friend of the United States. I
the bitterest days of the Civil War.
when the cause of the Union was at
its lowest ebb, the Emperor Louis Na
poleon, of France, was about to recog
nize the Southern Confederacy as a
independent sovereign nation, th
Russian Government dispatched its
war fleet to New York Harbor as a
gesture of friendship to the Kc«i- r:ii
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT
The Great and Supreme Ruler of the Universe has, in His in
nite wisdom, removed from our midst our friend and fellow
Joseph Kennedy. We, the members of Local Union No. 108, Bed
ford, Ohio, recognize the loss of this brother, who was respected
and loved by all of his fellow workers therefore, be it resolved:
That, we, the members of Local Union No. 108, shall cheri.-'i
a n e s e e e o y o i s i e a s a n a n n e a i o y a y o o u
organization.
That, we extend our sincere sympathy to the bereaved fami'y,
our charter to be draped in mourning for a period of thirty days,
,i copy of these Resolutions to be published in our official journal.
The Potters Herald, a copy spread upon the minutes of the Locn',
and a copy sent to the bereaved family.
worker,
Committee of Local Union No. 1C8.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT
The Great and Supreme Ruler of the Universe has, in his inn
nite Wisdonv removed from our midst our friend and fellow worker,
ieever
Woilam. We, the members of Local Union No. 124, Eo.-t
Liverpool, Ohio, recognize the loss of this brother, who was
and loved by all of his fellow workers therefore, be it resolve'!:
That, we, the members of Local Union No. 124, shall cherish
n i e s e e e o y o i s e a s a n a n n e a n o y a y o o u
organization.
That, we extend our sincere sympathy to the bereaved family,
».ir charter to be draped in mourning for a period of thirty days,
:t copy of these Resolutions to be published in our official journai.
The Potters Herald, a cony spread upon the minutes of the Local.
and a copy sent to the bereaved family.
A Y A V I S
N O A N W I E
JAMES BLOOR,
respect­
Committee of Local Union No. 121.
Group Formed To Study
Cigar Industry Wages
Washington, D. C.—The Wage and
Hour Division of the Labor Depart
ment announced that the committee to
recommend a minimum wage for the
cigar manufacturing industry will
meet here December 9.
Thomas L. Norton, Professor of
Economics at the University of Buf
falo, heads the committee, composed
of representatives of the public, the
employes and the employers.
Government. Louis Napoleon backed
down, and the history of the United
States was changed.
Kurusu's Better Half
Saburo kurusu, envoy extraordinary
from Japan, is a Jap career diplomat
War or peace hangs on the result of
his momentous conferences with Pres
ident Roosevelt and Secretary of
State Hull. Kurusu has an American
wife, three children who attended
public schools in this country and it
is reported that his wife and children
have, in effect, said "Pop the United
States is O. K. with us." It has been
said that Americans never Jose a war
nor win a conference. This is one con
ference our nation will not lose,
President Roosevelt has been very
adroit in arranging the conferences
For example, the Japanese envoy was
compelled to confer with Secretary
Cordell Hull before an interview with
the President could be scheduled. Our
smooth and able Secretary of State no
doubt prevailed upon Kurusu to tip
his hand and then immediately got on
the line to tell the President about it
Good Investment
If by sending billions of dollars
worth of planes, tanks, munitions and
food over there we are able to keep
our young men over here, isn't that
money well spent?
Consumer Notes
lesued Weekly By Consumers*
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, D. C.
FOOD FOR FREEDOM
Here are the goals farmers are
asked to aim at for the year 1942 in
the Food for Freedom campaign, an
nounced by the Secretary of Agricul
ture, and here's what they should
mean to consumers in this country.
Meat: The 1942 goal aims at the
production of 24.2 billion pounds of
beef, pork, veal, lamb, mutton and
chicken, or about 11 per cent more
than this year. After export need.s
re met, this goal, if it's achieved and
shared equally among everybody in
the country, would be enough to pro
vide each person with 169 pounds of
meat for a year. Actually, of course
it's not going to be shared equally,
but this increase of available meat
should put meat eating, quantitatively
on a higher level than it has been for
30 years.
Milk: Milk production is intended
to reach 125 billion pounds in 1942,
seven per cent more than this year
For American consumption, after the
amounts of dairy products to be
shipped abroad are deducted, there
would remain some 872 pounds of
milk equivalent per person if the goal
is reached. This amount of milk is
17 pounds per person above the av
erage consumption for this year and
is the largest amount available per
person in any year recorded.
Eggs: Four billion dozen eggs is
the 1942 production goal, about 10 per
cent more than this year's production.
After export needs, there may be
about 306 eggs left per person in this
country.
This is about what we have been
consuming in the past five years, more
than in the drought period but con
siderably less than in the 20's. Some
of these 306 eggs may not be eaten
by consumers but instead may be held
off the market, depending upon farm
prices. Consumption then would be
below the levels of recent years.
Vegetables: The fresh vegetable
goals for 1942 call for a slight pro
duction increase from commercial
truck farms in the important produc
ing areas about the same from the
truck gardens in the vicinity of large
cities and for some increase in the
production of farm gardens, mostly
for consumption on the farms. They
provide a level of consumption much
higher than in earlier years and at or
a little above that of recent years. No
increase in the potato production goal
including sweets, is set for 1942. The
goal provides an average consumption
of 165 pounds of potatoes per person
something less than the average
figure for past years.
Fire Chief Marfak
Sky hief
Gasolines Greases
IF SANTA'S GOING TO
BE ON TIME. THERE'S
PLENTY OF SHOP
PING TO BE DONE
THIS WEEK
SHOPPING DONE RIGHT ADDS TO THE
CHEERFULNESS OF THE SEASON.
DON'T TAKE ANY TROUBLES TO TOWN
WITH YOU. BE RELIEVED OF ALL
AUTOMOBILE WORRIES.
Snap. feu. Btti
Operated By Your Neighbors
AVOID THE Bl:SH:
Shop Between 10 & 1
PAGE FIVE
In canned vegetables, the goal calls
for marked increase in output over
this year's record production. The av
erage provided per person would be
approximately 32 pounds in 1942,
about two pounds higher than for
1941 and higher than for earlier years."-.
Fruits: The production of fruits
RAY BIRCH SERVICE
Broadway At 6th St
VaSSey IVBotor
TrarssEt Company
in
fresh, dried, or canned form is expect
ed to increase slightly, from 14.8 mil-"
lion tons this year to 15 million tons
in 1942. There may be slightly less
of the 12 major fresh fruits, due to
larger requirements for dried and
canned fruit. At 135 pounds per per
son in 1942, against 136.5 pounds in
1941, the average consumption if the
goal is reached would still be greater
than it has been for all except three
recent years.
If the goal is attained, canned fruit
consumption, excluding pineapple, will
average 11 pounds per person in..
1942, a half pound less than in 1941
but again more than in any year ex
cept 1940 and 1941. Dried fruit con-.,
sumption is expected to increase
slightly in 1942 to an average of
about six pounds per person.
HOW TO STORE ROOT AND
STAPLE VEGTABLES
Some staple and root vegetables, to
be kept at their best, need a cool
moist storage place, such as a base
ment without a furnace. Others keep
better under warmer, drier conditions,
say food experts of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The vegetables that need cold and
damp storage are beets, carrots,
parsnips, turnips, winter radishes, po
tatoes, celery and cabbage. In general
these vegetables keep best at a tem
perature somewhere between 32 and
42 degres Fahrenheit with about 90
per cent relative humidity. But if
white potatoes get too cold, they turn
sweet, so don't let them get below 34
degrees.
Onions, dry beans, pumpkins and
squash need a dry storage place.
Sweet potatoes need to cure first in a
very warm place then they keep best
at around 55 degrees in a rather moist
atmosphere.
CONSUMER TIME
Suggestions on what should go into
your man's dinner pail to give him a
substantial well-balanced meal at
work will be given listeners to Con
sumer Time on Saturday, December
13,1941 at 12:15 p. m., Eastern Stand
ard Time. And since Christmas prep
arations are on everybody's mind, con
sumer reporters will also teil you how
to make ".me toys
E E I S
EVERY CAR NEED UNDEJ* ONE ROOF
ONE STOP SERVICE
Open 24 Hours Every Day in the year
for
the children at
home.
Consumer Time is the regular week
ly broadcast of consumer information
on the air every Saturday at 12:15
p. m., Eastern Standard Time, over
the Red Network of the National
Broadc2ctin£r Company.
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