Show I qi Defense I Plan I Running gunning ri I t Behind Time i S j. j BURTON EURTON HEATH l' l I yoRK piecemeal al reports V C and there fit together II J hefe er that thus far the defense rat OW been ru running behind b bas t 1 c ort 7 jn In some instances this PJ f eduIe is temporary or minor iness in I others it is to set the entire K and rf d threatens tr U 1111 back materially pro iV to make deliveries on ont Pp V the labor department figured t shiPyards would need to Zi Jt t man ett so as to use m man manK n K ed UP labor jabor in December LessI Less or Of tb oan ars actually were em em- iii 1 I W oti ithe the bureau eff df labor statis- statis I P S reported baS erection of cantonments 11 I e i airports shipbuilding fa'S faS fa fa- S 'S factories housing etc was supposed 1 b. b M rollicking along during the 11 1 to be month with man mani ig sise S or of Work Actually only 40 i irs were utilized This This' I ci preparing camp facilities t l f i eJ In into to the fact that we have j L t t ore half of the anticipated trOops troops in federal service Behind I The me shipbuilding program was than two months behind The i construction program wasI was about one month in arrears arrears- I only coil Production 0 Boss and catching up P 0 Sunken usen has hiS conceded that in aircraft air- air I craft St we are not keeping to the e table Already we are hav- hav to tD sneak n k around through the It tl r heS to circumvent potential tf I ibor tor Or shortages which an intelli- intelli I et St t but tut belated training program i a lordly n offset very quickly Studies made by the New YorkI York Ii I fife labor department show that of skilled labor already til III fas haS necessitated two significant ff po procedural edural changes First the ora or- or a of work has been modi- modi Ceil ed d so a U as to turn over all possible from skilled to semi semi- and in turn from fromI I It the semiskilled to the unskilled z and Second in part because this thise e in technique has jade ade it itC possible possible apprenticeship apprenticeship eJ C are being reduced Substitution Necessary I I for lot example of the first there first there 1 Is not in sri unemployed lens grinder known in the United States But I. I army amy arsenals needed of them In b a i hurry The demand was met after Iter a fashion fashio by y f following wi g the j ed of or two plants WhiCh already 1 lid lad subdivided lens grinding so that flut skilled killed workers did only the cost rist delicate tasks tasks and and super- super used the rest r f T To Illustrate the second second air air air- trait factories used to insist on a minimum of four years' years work training mining for for- aviation mechanics But Bit with the boom this proved 1 utterly impossible So the requirement re re- re- re was reduced to a single sear jear Ul of or practical experience I Four Tour Long Lang Island aircraft plants to need more sheet i metal workers riveters welders and a nd other trained men by the end of this year Courses to train 1000 of these have been outlined He The aircraft plants will supply in- in the United States and the tie state will pay the bills |