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Show BehinmI Released by Western Newspaper l" KAISER SETS PACE IN RECONVERSION PLAN'S SAN FRANCISCO.-The Pat,. coast has about the same post worry as the rest ol the country k in more accentuated and posit, form because of the vast expansi throughout the state in planes ski yards and other war industries. The Kaiser shipyards industry 0. example, has been losing about 50 employees a month. The last C pages of their newspaper in its ltt Issue contained want-ads of worker, seeking ride - sharing automobil. seats to return home. Their jitl payroll at Richmond near here b been cut from peak employment et 93,000 down to 49,000 already Z It has had 500,000 different person employed in the past four years). I met the emperor of this mos fabulous accumulation of Amelia industries during the war, Henry J. ( Kaiser, and talked ! with him for more ; than an hour. His is not only the largest but most varied of all the nation's strictly new war enterprises en-terprises and contains con-tains 100 industries. Thus he also has 1 I Mill the biggest of all Henry J, the problems of re- Kaiser conversion and I was interested in ascertaining ho he would meet it. He is a crisp, heavy-set man will a knowledge of what is needed at: with unlimited ideas of how to t the job. He has both business hopi and faith a confidence that Imagination of the American peopi will devise methods of carrying fe. ward our industrial postwar sysie and faith that it cannot fail What he aggressive lonewollli. dustrial fighter that he is thinks Ik country needs primarily is competition. compe-tition. The first postwar industry to which he is turning his attentia is, naturally, shipping. He to growling about another businesi leader who made a speech a to days back advocating scrapping 1! the American merchant marine, fi now have more ships than any & tion ever had on the seas, (nunfc is a military secret) and he thiib they should be used. This will re quire government subsidy in li opinion because competing Era-pean Era-pean lines have subsidies. I jui? that he has in mind American at-quisition at-quisition of the trade which Japi: formerly had in the Orient. Hii: not mention a current rumor thill; may build postwar ships lor Husiii although I saw him shortly afteia left Molotov. HAS MANY PLANS The nation also needs J,0M homes, low cost homes, and he sea in this field vast opportunities i postwar activity, in bis opinion. Transportation should be enfe revised. A lower cost fare should worked out on the railroads. Sp highways should be extended, u'J nation in the future will continue: move out from the cities. Ht opportunities for building lower cars in the automobile ifcr (which he does not believe is petitive now) and great possfc-' in development of health fan--for the people. He would pw health facilities in every P; way to a scope amounting to 1 -tional industry. Here is a man with ideas ai: kind of energetic imagination f-conceives f-conceives new ventures wlj ones fail. He is now in meta'V-ceiving meta'V-ceiving a new magnesium alir 1 steel, a new kind of plasty I sum, planes, chemicals. j BELIEVES IN COMPETITIOX ( He is also in coal and steeU t in each industry he attempts"- 1 tain a competitive spirit Be-- e three offices in Washington!- , of one and thus promotes P1' work energy among his 0 . ployees and, of course, rnor ; duction. I suspect his own rec 1 plan is already well fa " There is much weU-advi- about him expanding w10 . production in Latin Americ tt elsewhere. . His enthusiastic spirit is of the feeling among otter men with whom I talk this area. In this respect 1 R what different from the t fc the trend runs to ss": doubt, although labor is ' in droves. 6$ Everyone out here figure war to take another year , is somewhat less tha" ef: sees San Francisco arid . coast as gateways to opened island empires cific and the Orient-pect Orient-pect a doubling of our ward, and perhaps more-There more-There Is much rem forty-niner gold stn ,(, among these business? would not be surprised u , their postwar Pr e L heavier than a"V otl,er well bj any another. I |