Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-06-02 | Page 4 | Taking the Shackles off Geneva

Taking faking the Shackles Off Geneva BUSINEss B official civic newspaper and congressional pressure pres pres- sure lure on government authorities to remove the labor shackles Which have been hampering operations at the geneva eneva Steel plant have at last Jast had effect effect Representative J. J Will Vill Robinson has revealed that the war man power commission is taking te steps to permit recruiting of labor for Geneva outside of Utah I One reason for this f favorable a v 0 r a b I 1 e action is believed to tobe tobe tobe be the war production Uon boards board's boards board's admission that steel i is getting tight again which means that that speeding up full prod production at Geneva has become more important According to reports reports' from Washington the war man power commission is sending instructions to its regional director in Utah to issue priorities to Geneva for interregional al recruitment subject only to the prior claims of plants producing landing craft aviation gasoline or secret projects such as the plant at Pasco Wash Despite the prior claims of the the Pasco Pasco project it may prove to be the best Dest source of l labor f for r Geneva It has as been proposed proposed pro pro- posed that Geneva be permitted to interview those who quit the theY Pasco job and have first claim on hiring them At any event wherever the workers come from Utah will be highly gra gratified fied over the prospect for speedy filling of the steel plants plant's 1 labor bor ranks And we hope that now t monk monkey y wrench is is' being removed from the Geneva machinery no others will be tossed into the works to interfere with the task of getting the plant into full oper operation tion