Evening star. [volume], April 09, 1943, Page A-12, Image 12

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Fabrication for War
Goods Brings Drop in
Man-Hour Production
Extra Requirements for
Product and Untrained
Workers Are Factors
Manufacture of durable goods in
wartime requires many more man
hours per unit of raw material than
in peacetime, Commerce Depart
ment experts reported today.
Steel industries, for example, util
ized on the average 133 man-hours
last year to transform a ton of steel
into guns, tanks, machine tools and
other products—an increase of al
most 60 per cent over the 85 man
hours required per ton of steel
fabricated in 1939.
Among the reasons for the in
crease in the man-hours-per-ton
ratio, according to the Commerce
Department, are the higher degree
of fabrication required for war prod
ucts, and a decline in labor effi
ciency, due to the Influx of un
trained workers.
Trends Foreseen.
This trend, the department said,
carries “significant implications for
the postwar period,” for durable
goods manufactured after victory is
won will again be chiefly military.
This will create a major problem of
balance between the raw materials
producing industries and the metal
processing industries.
The department suggested two al
ternative postwar trends.
“First, in view of the wide de
struction caused by global war, if
world demand should require the
metal processing industries to con
tinue to utilize in fabricating prod
ucts all the productive resources
employed at the peak of the war
effort, they would need more raw
materials than the iron and steel
industry could supply with its ex
pected capacity of 97,000.000 tons as
of December, 1943. In fact, even if
the metal processing industries
should generally observe the 40-hour
week in the postwar period, further
expansion of iron and steel capacity
would be required to meet the de
mand for raw materials under this
alternative.
Shrinking Plan Noted.
“The second alternative would be
to shrink the metal fabricating in
dustries down to a level where they
would consume no more raw ma
terials than the Iron and steel in
dustry could supply with its 97,
000,000 tons of capacity. Because of
the smaller number of man-hours
needed to fabricate peacetime prod
ucts, this would mean—in addition
to a shorter work week—a substan
tial diversion of manpower to other
fields of activity, the metal fabricat
ing industries losing some of their
wartime dominance.”
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Conferences Slated
On Catholic Action
A series of conferences on Catholic
Action with the Rev. Albert O’Hara,
S. J., of Carrol House, Catholic Uni
versity, as leader will start at 8
o'clock tonight at the Pius XI Guild
House, 1721 Rhode Island avenue
N.W.
Father O’Hara recently returned
from China, where he spent eight
years as a missionary working with
wounded and refugee soldiers.
Bethesda Rotary to Hear
Conference Reports
Reports of the conference of the
180th Rotary District, which will be
held Sunday and Monday at Balti
more, will be made at the regular
meeting of the Bethesda-Chevy
Chase Club, it was announced today.
The Bethesda Chevy Chase Club
will be represented at the conference
by Francis Hill, attorney and mem
ber of the Selective Service Board.
Make a raid on your pocketbook
so that we can raid the Axis. Get
your War savings bonds or stamps
now.
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