Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-12-23 | Page 5 | Murray Offers Plane Speed-Up

r Lists Details N t j r M s si i I PHIL Y Lunches at White House MURRAY MURRA Y OFFERS PLANE SPEED UP WASHINGTON Dec 23 INS Phil Murray president of the CIO Monday p pre presented r e s e en n t e d President t Roosevelt with a detailed program m for mass production of metal all i pursuit planes at the rate of 50 0 a day through pooling facilities o othe of f the automobile industry Murray who had lunch wit with h President Roosevelt at the White Whit WhiteHouse WhiteHouse e House said that the automobile e industry could start turning ou out t tn the planes on a mass production n basis at the end of six months i if f work is begun at once According to Murray the pla plan n was drafted by Walter P P. Reuther director r of the General Motors di division di- di vision of the C I Os O's United Automobile Automobile Automobile Auto Auto- mobile Workers Workers' union and a member member member mem mem- ber of the committee on training g in industry of the national defense commission Murray said that a survey by Reuther had revealed that the facilities fa facilities facilities fa- fa of the automobile industry are used at less than 50 per cent of capacity that basic machinery used in in the auto industry can be adapted to mass production of airplanes air airplanes air air- airplanes planes and that there is an adequate adequate adequate ade ade- quate supply of labor available The C CIO I 0 president explained that if the automobile industry could be adapted to pursuit plane production the facilities of the aviation industry could be directed toward manufacture of bombers and heavier planes Reuther in his report to Mur Mur- I ray suggested that tooling for production production production pro pro- of the new car models next year jear be postponed six months so that tools to equip auto plants for plane manufacture could be produced pro pro-