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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT Jy¥lanpower Resources Not Exhausted (Continued from preceding the page) the lack of a labor pool. The possibilities of a fuller employment of our man and womanpower resources tion is poses, made or curtailed This should be that recruitment war leveled production off. for or explored is no time to before coddle any sugges- for military purneeds, should be waste and inef- ficiency. And labor hoarding is worse than criminal. Obsolete methods and dragging industrial practices, too, in times like these are intolerable. However, before any step-up in productive efficiency may be undertaken it is probable that a number of stubborn, obtuse craniums in the Utah-Nevada area may have to be overhauled. We must awake from our torpor, Public opinion must compel medieval executives to join What's Back of Gus situation in Utah and Eastern Nevada. The expose of the Chamber of Commerce and its associated and interlocking organizations will be resumed in the next issue. The Faltering OPA (Continued from preceding page) out and let a more courageous official act. The longer he plays horse the longer the people of the United States must suffer from the effects of a disjointed economy. Salary and wage earners are in the painful position of being held in a tight grip by the War Labor Board, the War Manpower Commission and Presidential directives while OPA permits the dog-in-the-manger “hunger bloc’ in and out of Congress to pick their pockets. The Administration should take of enlightened PRODUCTION industrialism. COMMITTEES The secret of increased production hes in the organization and proper functioning of labor-management production committees throughout industry. That move was ordered last year by Donald M. Nelson. Some concerns gave wholehearted, forthright compliance. Others gave lip service and organized make-believe committees. Those corporations that performed in good faith have obtained astonishing results. But the majority of the corporations in this region preferred to hang on to their ancient sins. They organized fake labor-management production. committees and impudently put them up in front as the real article. SUBTERFUGES We interrupt the series, ‘‘What’s Back of Gus’’, to bring readers an analysis of the manpower procession immediate action to enforce the entire Stabilization Program, or it should abandon the program in its entirety and take the lid off wage and salary increases. With the new tax program coming up, and the cost of living out of all proportion to employee earning power, wage and salary earners are in a sorry plight. Strikes and disturbances are inevitable unless a fair relationship between prices and wages is promptly established—unless the entire Stabilization Program is made effective. If the “Way to Resume is to Resume’, the way to Roll Back Prices is to Roll Them Back. Naturally their rate of increased production was imperceptible. A few companies like Utah Copper* exploited richer ores and thereby increased their output of metal. But their per capita increase of ores mined was negligible. Most of them seized the opportunity to run in their rich ores in order to collect a bonus on metals produced above their quota. Genuine compliance with the orders and program of the War Production Board would have stepped up the output of both rich and lean ores by substantial percentages, and would do so today. And, of course, the increase in metal output would have been in <irect proportion. RESULTS AT GARFIELD Let us examine the results of labor-management cooperation for increased production at Garfield, Utah, in the plant of the American Smelting & Refining Company. The Company and the Garfield Local of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers union organized a production committee as urged by Donald M. Nelson (Continued on following page) “While definite figures are not available, there are insistent reports that Utah Copper Company received the Army-Navy E award by mining its rich ores to increase metal output, rather than because of any startling increase in the output of additional ores. |