Show OR iff washington D C WAGE stabilization you can write it down that the president will use his executive powers to keep wages in check rather than ask congress for any new log legislation isolation dealing with wage stabilization there are for dorthis this I 1 1 wage control legislation would be sure to stir up another bitto bitter congressional controy controversy ersy as bad orf ort worse than the brawl over farin faran pa parity rity prices it might even require months tp get both houses to io agree on a bill satisfactory to the administration adain admin 2 the president believes that the policy apropo proposed pio posed sed by the war labor boards recent steel wage decision limiting wage increases to 15 per cent over scales prevailing on january 1 1941 plus additional rationing of consumer goods will vill be sufficient for the time being to brake inflation threats to the working mans pocketbook inside tact fact is that the war labor board is contemplating only one further step in its wage stabilization program and this is not so much an anti inflation move as a concession to certain labor groups and a contribution to the prosecution of the war r in certain industries including c shipyards and tool an and anddie dd die plants are abo above the 15 percent increase ceiling set by the board abaid this raises the quest question loh shall i wages in these thes industries adu arlis be brought down to conform with scales in other war plants which pay below the ceiling the answer is there will be na no reduction in wages the president has decided definitely against this instead to prevent piracy and migration of workers away from vital war plants paying below the 15 per cent ceiling cel ling the war labor board Is planning to amend its wage policy to permit the payment of premium wages above above the ceiling in such plants note one industry sure to be allowed premium wages is aircraft which has lost many workmen woi kmen by piracy and migration to higher pay p ay ing shipyards NEW ARMY FOOD to save shipping space the army is sending food overseas in dehydrated form experiments Experiment sin in taste reserving preserving dehydration in have ave been tarried out and an d tested on a group of army cooks i at the chicago depot af the quartermaster bermaster ler ter master corps the cooks sat down to a meal of dehydrated foods principal item on the menu bled eggs made by adding water to a 6 yellow powder it has been discovered that one pound of dehydrated turnips will serve berve 28 persons after water is added BEHIND THE AIR CORPS i this war will be won or lost in the air mut despite that fact the air forces wil ml win or lose the war on the ground in other words the successor success i of operations in the air depends on ground crews who outnumber air crews ten to one featured Feature din in the headlines and the newsreels news reels every day are the pilots and machine gunners but the unsung heroes of this war are the ground crews real fact is that it takes only one man to pilot a fighter plane but it takes eight ar or ten maintenance men to keep it in shape to fight A four engine bomber requires a flying crew of nine and a maintenance crew of 25 often a ground crew cren willbe assigned exclusively to one plane and will become attached to it with the affection a stable boy has fara fora racehorse chief of staff general marshall has revealed that the overall over all strength of theair force is expected to reach 1 men by the end of 1942 and by the end of next year if the war Is won in 1943 it will be won by thes men but of them will be fighting on the ground they are the overall boys the grease monkeys the men who spend all day overhauling an engine which has hasteen been flying all night the men who know what heat beat is like in the deserts of africa because they dont get up in the air for relief as do the pilots pi lotsi I 1 OVERSEAS CANDY t the quartermaster corps is in the market to buy pounds of hard candy peppermint orange lemon limi lime anise and nd c cherry arri the hard candy is being bought for overseas 0 ersts troops as part of tho the t regular field ration official explanation la is that candy is an excellent I 1 source of energy I 1 0 0 I 1 1 t I 1 AFRICAN CAMEL CREWS 1 they are the mechanics the the metal workers the welders elders yes and they are thea pick and shovel berf men who build the landing fields in foreign posts and repair them after enemy bombers have halle passed over they are also the cooks and the mess boys the masters the doctors and the p pay ay truck drivers in short they are the I 1 men who perform every duty that keeps a plane in the air they do everything except replace the african camels |