Show Differences Of Opinion 1 i j President Thomas rhomas of United Automobile Workers of America says that the proposed drastic cur cur- curtailment curtailment curtailment of automobile manufacturing ing is not intended to increase defense de- de defense de de- defense production That's interesting indeed 1 Mr Thomas says he was told in Washington that automobile aut mobile workers would not be immediately transferred to defense jobs but that on the contrary plants would shut down in such that large automobile producing centers like Flint Pontiac Vind Saginaw might become ghost towns There seems to be perfect agree agree- agreement agreement agreement ment in statements made by Price and i- i Supply Administrator Leon Henderson and labor union leaders that the auto industry and the gov gov- government government have no concrete plan to employ or more automobile workers in defense plants plants plants-if if they are forced out of their jobs in auto auto- automobile automobile automobile mobile factories A staff for the Washing Washington ton Star states in a news item from Detroit that is going go go- going going ing to Ito O lie be e in greater demand than thanin I in previous years because of the very circumstances that arc are forcing forc forc- forcing ing a curtailment of tear scar production The latest which report report which may be bean bean bean an alibi alibi is is that automobile production pro pro- production production is being limited because I cars cannot be manufactured with with- without without without i out steel and there is jio no io substitute for that material This docs does not im im- impress im- im impress press the time United Automobile Work York Yorkers ers ens who insist that radical curtail curtail- curtailment curtailment ment of automobile production would bring ghost towns to Mich igan An even broader view of con conditions shows shows that every state and nd every community in the tIme nation con con- contributes contributes contributes tributes its products for the build build- building building building ing of automobiles and that tl at every e ery town and crossroad would be ser ser- seriously seriously seriously affected from a economic standpoint in jn case highway transportation trans trans- transportation transportation is cut down 1 I IThe The Industry Advisory committee states that auto makers will be given increased defense or or- orders orders ders wherever it is s possible to util util- utilize utilize ize ze men and machines released leased r by production in automobiles aut As a matter flatter of fact the automobile iut e man manufacturers m have almost doubled pro production production luction of defense d materials in the past ast 9 I |