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The Weber Company, which formerly produced fixtures,
now, manufactures airplane wings and employs more than 1,200
people, twice as many as before!the war.
STUDIES REVEAL CAUSES OF LABOR TURNOVER
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General Gross revealed that the railroads have hauled more
than five times as much Army freight and express as they did
in the last war, and are now moving more than nine-tenths of
all Army tonnage.
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tablished by employment stabilization
plans do not apply to physicians, den-
tists. veterinarians, "sanitary en-
gineers and nurses, WMC explains.
This is because all but about 90,000
of th 600,000 persons in these profes-
sions are either self-employed or em-
ployed by Federal, State or local gov-
ernments, and are thus excluded. The
balance, employed by hospitals or in-
dustrial companies, has been exempt-
ed by WMC because of the small num-
ber of persons involved the technical
nature of their work, and the effective
system of allocation developed by the
Proeurment ^and Assignment Service.
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A public hearing in a case which promises the most exten-
sive election in its history has been scheduled by the NLRB for
Dec. 6 in Washington on the petition of the Commercial Tele-
grpahers’ Union (AFL). The petition covers all land line em-
ployees of the Western Union Telegraph Corp recently
merged.
The trial examiners instead of the usual one will conduct
the hearing. Invited to participate are the company and 21 la-
bor organizations—AFL, CIO and independent. About 70,000
employees working in 19,000 offices of the Western Union sys-
tem are involved.
. The area covered in the proceeding makes the Western
Union case the most extensive of more than 15,000 elections con-
ducted by the Board. In terms of number of employees to be
polled, the case ranks fourth. The three large ones were the
General Motors case in which 124,000 valid votes were cast, the
Bethlehem Steel with 98,000 valid votes, and the Ford Motor
election, with 74,000 votes.
The superior man is slow in his
words and earnest in his conduct.—
Confucius.
19 months the
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training and improvement of
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hours of work as may be required to
meet production schedules and as are.
consistent with good health and sus-
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6. Taking of all possible steps to
assure the maximum utilization of
potential manpower reserves not now
engaged in necessary war activities in
each community, through: Continued
and accelerated recruitment of wom-
en, encouraging and facilitating the
transfer of workers Into essential war
and locally needed activities, and en-
listing every possible source of new
labor in manpower shortage areas.
60 U-BOATS SUNK IN 3 MONTHS
Approximately 60 U-boats were destroyed during August,
September and October, bringing* to more than 150 the number
of U-boats destroyed during the last six months, a joint Anglo-
American statement issued by the OWI under authority of the
President and the Prime Minister says. The record is regarded
as particularly gratifying because during that period fewer
U-boats were operating and so presented fewer targets.
The destruction of U-boats during those months is greater
than the number of Allied merchant ships sunk by U-boat action.
Allied tonnage losses from all causes during October were
second lowest of any month during the war. Merchant ship
tonnage lost during the last three months was less than half
of the merchant ship tonnage lost during the previous three
months despite the fact that actual shipping increased.
The Germans have introduced new U-boat weapons and tac-
tics, the statement says, and adds: “Thus far we have been
able to cope successfully with the changing situation.”
THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
become members of the union in good standing within two weeks
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When men are most sure and arro-
gant they are commonly most mis-
taken.—Hume.
Approximately 145,000 women, employed in Naval shore
facilities and aircraft factories, are backing up the Navy in
its fight for victory on seas and: in the air, the Navy Depart-
ment’s Industrial Incentive Division reports. This number,
which is in addition to thousands of Waves assigned to various
types of duty with the Navy, is an increase of almost 100,000
women workers since June 30, 1942. »
Some women work in offices. Many are working in plants
and factories, where they are handling armor plate, operating
heavy presses, grinders, drill presses, screw machines, punch
presses, heavy and light lathes, cranes and large hoists and
many other heavy duty jobs for the Navy.
Of the more than 145,000 women working in Naval ac-
tivities in August, 1943, more than 53,000 were employed in
Navy yards, where they perform all kinds of jobs. Naval air
stations have almost 20,000 women on the payrolls. Naval
supply depots employ approximately 15,000 others. Naval am-
munition depots, ordnance plants, torpedo stations, mine de-
pots and power plants have about 13,500 women on the job.
Over 9,000 others are employed as inspectors of Naval aircraft,
machinery and Naval material, while the Marine Corps has over
6,100 women workers on its production lines.
as mai ly troops in special trains and special cars as they han-
dled in similar movements during the entire "
United States was in the last war.
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Troop movements, according to General Gross, account for
approximately 20 per cent of the total passenger-miles of the
American railroads. So far in this war, he reported, the rail-
roads n this country have carried about three and a half times
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on in this war are much greater,” the Chief of the Trans-
portation Corps declared.
Labor’s adherence to the no-strike pledge and its patriotic
co-operation with management for all-out production constitute
an excellent war-time record, three public members of the War
Labor Board have stated.
William H. Davis, Board Chairman, and public members
George W. Taylor and Frank P. Graham, in a reply to criticism
by AFL President William Green of their opinion on the coal
case, stated that Green misunderstood their reference to the
need for demonstration of “labor’s determination to accept the
bitter with the sweet and to comply with the orderly processes
of government.”
They referred not to the past, said the WLB members, but
to the future, where danger of restrictive legislation looms if
labor should abandon the responsibilities it has assumed in the
national war production program.
“Organized labor, except for the United Mine Workers, has
had an excellent record in its patriotic co-operation with man-
agement for all-out production and its acceptance of wage con-
trols,” they said.
They earnestly counseled that “the Lewis defiance not be an
example, which, if followed by other unions, would require leg-
islation not only more thoroughgoing but, in its possible fea-
tures, unfair to the labor movement and unwise for the war
effort."
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MOUND CITY PAINTS AND VARNISHES
MECHANICS TOOLS — HARDWARE
GARDEN SUPPLIES
WESTON HARDWARE CO.
H. P. HORSLEY, Pres.
“Over 50 Years in Dallas”
1021 EIM STREET PHONE c-5126
or seek jobs elsewhere. .
Wayne L. Morse, public member, in an opinion outlining
the reason for the WLB’s actiqn, said that the Board was aware
that the company had hired a large number of employees re-
cently, who did not become union members, but this did not
justify the Board’s settirg aside a union shop clause which it
found had never expired. ; :
“It is unfortunate that the company has hired such a large
number of non-union employees in direct violation of its con-
tractual obligations to the union,” Morse said. “The fact that
the company may lose their services is unfortunate but not near-
ly as unfortunate as the situation would be if the company
were allowed, to defeat the legitimate rights of the union in the
manner it has attempted to in this case.”
The Board urged union officials to grant every reasonable
Cotton Finds Newest
Use; It Now Provides
Carriages for Babies
Chicago. — Cotton is helping to
solve another big transportation
problem—that of 3,000,000 American
babies for whom available baby car-
riages using rubber and vital metals
can provide travel facilities for only
one out of fifty.
Birth rates were booming so de-
signers had to get busy. The result
was a modernization of the ancient
canvas basket model that looks like
an oversized handbag and can be car-
ried around the same way. «
The new carriage is simply a strip
of heavy cotton canvas, three feet by
two feet, which when looped over and
held by handles at the end, forms a
basket. Although this cotton baby
buggy was originally designed to re-
place metal baskets for carrying fire-
place wood, baby doesn’t seem to mind
being substituted when the shift means
that he won’t have to stay home all
the time.
Inadequate community facilities and inefficient factory
supervision contribute to high turnover in war jobs, according
to an OWI report based on manpower utilization surveys made
by the WMC’s Bureau of Manpower Utilization. The report
also shows that the number of workers quitting was reduced
when the plants or the communities improved conditions.
A survey of a war plant in the West employing approxi-
mtaely 4,300 men and women, showed about one-fourth of the
workers dissatisfied with the transportation; another fourth
displeased with prices, quality and quantity of food served in
the cafeteria and approximately one-seventh of the employees
complaining that suitable housing was scarce and rents high.
About half also complained that the building was kept too warm
for efficient work.
The management of a Minneapolis plant noted an im-
provement in morale and productivity of the workers after the
plant cafeteria had been refurnished and mobile hot food units
established to serve workers who preferred to eat at their ma-
Washington.—The WMC labor-man-
agement-agricultural advisory com-
mittee, in opposing national service
legislation, suggested on the basic ol
WMC experience the following actione
as elements of a program to make
voluntary methods work:
(1) The facts as to manpower needs
and available supply must be deter-
mined as accurately as is humanly
possible.
(2) The relative urgency for prod
ucts and services must be determine
ip each local area by the agencies of
wherever possible removed.
(5) The flow of available man-
Entered at the Postoffice at Dallas, Telaa, as second-class nail matter
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concession to provide those employees who join the union with-
in the two-week perid ample time to pay the union’s initiation I
fee, Dean Morse said. Dues for such employees will start from for workers must be determined in
the time of the Board’s order. each area
The unions in the case are iqcals of the Sheet Metal Work-
ers’ International Association, Refrigeration Fitters, Welders
and Apprentices, Brotherhood of Painters and the United Broth-
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
The WLB has unanimously ordered that a union shop clause
be retained in a contract between the Weber Showcase and Fix-
ture Co. of Los Angeles and four AFL building trades unions.
The company had claimed that the union shop clause and
the contract were terminated when the union asked for a re-
opening of the contract under a provision giving either party
the right to serve notice of a desire to “modify, amend or termi-
nate it"
The WLB found that, on the contrary, the record showed
that the union’s intent was not to terminate the contract, but
to modify and amend it. The Board therefore ordered em-
ployees who were hired during the period in which the company
claimed that it was not bound by the union shop clauses, to
A startling report, showing how consumers and farmers are
being gouged by middlemen, was issued this week by the Federal
Trad Commission. Significantly, it was ignored by the daily
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Hiring Controls Geo. Clifton Edwards
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The report is so voluminous and covers such a vast field
that it is impossible for "Labor" to refer to more than a few high-
lights.
Standing out like a sore thumb in the document is the fact
that consumers pay for food three to 10 times what farmers re-
ceive for raising it.
The revelations are even more striking when it is consid-
ered that the figures were obtained from surveys conducted in
1936, a depression period. That they are not current prices will
be obvious to housewives whose pocketbooks take a beating every
time they go to market.
The consumer in Boston had to pay 81-67 for a sack of
onions for which the Texas grower received 15 cents. Head let-
tuce that brought the Western grower 58 cents a crate was
priced at $4.08 to the consumer in Dallas. Tomatoes priced at
$2.58 in St. Louis were purchased from a California grower for
52 cents. Potatoes bought from the Idaho farmer at 60 cents
cost the consumer in New Orleans $2.23.
Apples sold by the grower in the Northwest for 37 cents a
box were boosted to $2.35 by the time they went over the retail
counter in Boston. Oranges priced at $4.85 a box in Baltimore
were procured from the California grower for $1.25. The con-
sumer in New Orleans paid $3 for peaches that left the-orchard
at 77 cents a bushel. Florida grapefruit for which the grower
received 67 cents a box sold for $3.56 in St. Louis. The con-
sumer'in Kansas City had to pay $2.55 for cabbage sold by the
farmer for 35 cents a crate.
And so it goes with the long list of items that are every-
day needs, including the processed foods as well “as the fresh
produce.
Hitting at this “pyramiding of charges,” the report de-
clares that marked savings could be effected by “reducing the
number of handlers and eliminating gouging practices.”
The distribution of both processed and unprocessed foods is
characterized by “a multiplicity of types of middlemen,” and
their “take” tends to increase excessively in times such as the
present, it is pointed out.
“High pressure" selling also tends to “blow up” prices, ac-
cording to the report. The flooding of retailers with bread by
the big bakers not only increased the cost but resulted in a
shocking waste of that item of food. The practice resulted in
250,000,000 pounds of bread going to waste last year alone, it
was revealed.—“Labor.”
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GEN. GROSS PRAISES RAILROAD TROOPS
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American Army railroad troops overseas, most of whom
were railroaders in civilian life, are “contributing in a large
measure to the great gains that have been and are being made
by the Allied Forces,” according to Major General Charles P.
Gross, Chief of the Army Transportation Corps, who has just
returned from a 45,000 mile tour of some of the fighting fronts.
“For instance,” General Gross said, “our railroaders in-
creased the capacity of the French railroads in North Africa
by some 70 per cent. They advanced with the troops in the in-
vasion of Sicily, and are now in Italy restoring rail operations
behind our front lines from Naples and Salerno. In the Per-
sian Gulf Corridor, they increased railway capacity from prac-
tically nothing to some 130,000 tons a month, thereby getting
te Russia half of the supplies, which are covered in the proctocol
agreement for that route.”
Although railroading in the fighting zones is a difficult
and hazardous job, General Gross commented, “our men are
tackling it with ingenuity, courage and determination.
“Some notable feats of valor have been performed in this
war by our railroaders in getting to the front the men and sup-
plies which must reach there if our armies are to be victorious,”
he added.
Railroads and their employees are also meeting military
demands on the home front.
“They are doing far better than they did in the First World
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chines. In the Portland-Vancouver area low ferry rates, in-
creased bus service and better rail service helped to attract and
hold labor at the Kaiser shipyards. A Maryland war plant
found that deficient housing and transportation and poor per-
sonnel policies cost it a loss of an average of 42 workers a day.
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power must be guided to the point:
where it will contribute most to the
war effort.
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cated to or retained in any given ares
must be balanced with the ability to
supply the uenessary manpower.
(7) All of these actions must be
based on the initial c nceprions that
the agencies of government are to
serve the people by informing them
what has to be done, when and where
it must be done, and that the people
of the nation are the ones to deter-
mine how it shall be done.
As for definite steps to be taken,
the committee recommended'
(A) That the Office of War Mobil-
ization be asked to "conduct a con-
tinuing reappraisal of the national
production requirements as related to
the total manpower resources of the
nation in such manner as to make
clear to the people the program re-
quired,” and to reappraise the organ-
ization and functions of government
agencies to eliminate overlapping, to
promote decentralized administration
of manpower programs and to "re-
move needless administrative burdens
and controls.”
(B) That the WMC chairman review
Selective Service regulations and pro-
cedures and revise them if necessary,
to the end that all physically fit men
of military age shall serve in the
armed forces unless his services on
the home front is more necessary to
production or the civilian economy,
and that Inductions be timed accord-
ing to the ability to replace them.
(C) That the WMC chairman rec-
ommend that government personnel ‘
be reviewed to make as many as pos- I
Bible available to essential industries.
(D) That the Army and Navy ex-
amine their manpower usage and
speed the return to war production
of those over-age or with limited:
service classifications who have spe-
cial skills.
(E) That the governors of all states
be called upon to initiate publicly pro-
grams to stimulate the maximum com
munity action on proluction and man
power problems.
For their part the spokesman fo
management and agriculture pledget’
the support of all labor, industry anc
farm groups to the following actions
1. Whole-hearted promotion of the
production of the goods, the food, an'
the services required by the war.
2. Exhaustion of every possibilit
to solve the nation’s manpower prob
lems thorugh voluntary, co-operative
action in every industry and everj
area.
3. A call upon local management
labor and agriculture to attack man
power and production problems, com
munity by community and plant by
plant, in co-operation with the appro
priate agencies.
4. A vigorous attack upon the basic
causes of excessive turnover in essen
tial activities.
5. The taking of all possible step;
to assure the maximum utilization of
manpower engaged In war activities
through: Reduction of absenteeism tc
the lowest possible level, maintenance
of regularized production schedule
as far as possible consistent with
strategic requirements, continued ef-
forts to eliminate manpower hoarding
and restrictive practices which pre- i
elude the highest possible per man-
hour output, improvement of perform-1
ance by adoption of appropriate meas-1
ures designed to increase the effective:
per man-hour output of workers, up- ‘
grading workers in such manner as to
make full use of their highest skills
that are needed in the war effort,
continued development within each
plant or establishment of systems of
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