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Show WARNING TO WORKERS WAR NOT OVER James P. Byrnes, Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion, Reconver-sion, says that "much of the manpower man-power trouble is due to the mistaken mis-taken belief, on the part of some people, that the war is about over." Mr. Byrnes, who has rendered outstanding service to the nation, knows what he is talking about and the people of this country should take seriously the warning irrmlied in Viica wnrla rovfoinlir many Americans are under the impression that the end of the struggle in Europe which appears to be growing near, will mean the end of any acute emergency, involving in-volving production. The South Carolinian calls attention at-tention to "deficiencies in certain criticial programs, vitally essential essen-tial to the war effort," and says that this includes heavy bombers, heavy artillery, heavy ammunition, ammuni-tion, heavy trucks and tires, assault as-sault transports and assault cargo car-go ships, repflir and maintenance spare parts, cotton duck and radar rad-ar equipment. The average American, reading this statement, will not be impressed im-pressed with any particular duty in the matter. In reaching this conclusion, however, the average American will be wrong. Every citizen can do something to curb the growing insistence of civilians that industry will be permitted per-mitted to manufacture certain articles ar-ticles and products which are scarce. Every citizen can help stem the demands of eager business busi-ness men that they be permitted to reconvert and "get going" on peace-time production. |
