| Show S I Ii i. i 5 A ton Daybook Jj Bj Dr RODNEY BUTCHER DUTCHER Editors Editor s note This is b the thelast last wt of a series of ot stories by Rodney Dutcher on how bow the United States plans to mobilize Its manpower and industry In the event of ot another war Wr WASHINGTON June 10 The 10 The war departments department's plans for lor the next war do rio not Dot con contemplate another powerful food administration or fuel adminis Neither is it proposed that the government take over th the railroads rail rail- roads as it did In the last war unless s full government control seems to b be become come unavoidable Food and fuel tuel will wUl be handled b by a director of war industry who would serve on a dominant advisory war council with the secretaries of ot war and navy a a. director of selective service ser ser ser- vice ice director of public relations and an administrator of labor I The army has worked out a definite deli nite plan for wartime o operation of railways under which a central committee com of ot railroad officials would beable be beable beable able to put the rail system Stem at the disposal disposal dis dis- of ot the government under unified uni uni- fled fied management within twenty twenty four four hours I The dire director tor of ot war Industry obviously ob will be a most Important person per son and if it you happen to be convinced convinced con I vinced that well we'll be having a a. major war before long you might have some fun guessing who he will turn out to be He will be appointed by the president president dent and will act as his confidential representative He will function with headquarters here aided by a a. staff stat of experts engaged as M the war department department depart ment envisages their Job In continuous ous studies of ot such matters as price movements and their causes substitutes for critical l materials conservation conservation conserva tion and business practices The main body of his office will wUl consist of two branches one branches one to coordinate demand or requirements and the theother theother theother other to coordinate supply dealing with industry as a n. whole and Its efforts efforts ef ef- ef forts torts to meet the requirements The be branch which will wUl handle organization tion of demand includes representatives tives of the army and namy along with civilians Under the director ina In Ina Ina a industrial branch there will be a a. coordinator of war industry assisted by an industrial advisory board consisting of several prominent Industrialists who will be drafted by bythe bythe bythe the president for official government service Each member of ot the advisory board will be assigned general supervision super vision over a a. group of war service committees Industries groups STOups of Industries In in- or component parts of Industries Industries industries Indus indus- tries will be asked to select for themselves themselves them them- selves e. e executive committees and to empower them with definite control o er the Industries or groups represented so 50 that they may act on designated designated matt matters rs connected with the emergency Any association or organization or might appoint a war service service ser ser ser- vice committee the war department says but they will represent primarily primar ily manufacturers distributors transportation trans labor power and shippers The war service committee will not be governmental organizations as the advisory board will be but will exercise exercise exer cise only the powers delegated to them by the industries which elect them SPEED ESSENTIAL To insure speed of ot organization when a a. big war emergency comes the war department will keep a list of names of men specially qualified so that the director of war Industry and his principal assistants may be promptly chosen by the president Officers engaged In peacetime study of the wartime industrial problems will be ready to step in and facilitate matters of office organization plans and specifications at any moment Meanwhile the army industrial college col college lege Is making intensive studies involved in in- In the prompt organization of Industry for war emergency Before the war department submitted submitted sub sub- its plans to the war policies commission there was considerable discussion discus of the question of conscripting con conS scripting labor in wartime wartime-a a meas meas- ure strongly op opposed ed by the Thus int interest ret attaches to th the pro p. POsed functIons of the j tor ot of labor General Douglas Mac ia Arthur chief chic of staff says labor abor would not be supported by pUb pUb- lic opinion or be conducive to and efficiency But the full i tIon of labor Is 15 anticipated an and th Uw the war plans are professedly to protect labor from oppression un der color of ot emergency as a. well a aa to guide it into useful useful channels and keet kee it therein as ns far as possible Lab Labor control will wUl be based entirely K It is t promised on voluntary cooperation The labor administration win will un tS' tS to assure war Industries im an and essential civilian industries inclUde 1 ing lug agriculture and transportation of sufficient qualified labor for tub de quate operation The administrator of labor appointed by and responsible ble to the president will wUl be aided by an advisory council made tip UD up or of employers and ta in equal nu numbers Proper r mid gut ance and the force of ot public opinion opio the war department believes es can caz ba be depended upon to enforce dee decision of the labor administration The a cf ministration will at attempt to dete deter dete mine labor requirements operate jm an employment service to bring jo Jobs sn KA workers together and maintain an agency for tor conciliation and adjustment adjust adjust- ment merit designed to keep workers on u the job The End |
