Show POSTWAR POST WAR QUESTIONS continuing the subject of postwar post war questions and problems we offer an interesting editorial taken from the daily sentinel of grand junction which is additional food for thought this editorial bears the caption worse headaches ahead and well they might be for those who must have a part in making laws to govern the of war production plants and to control situations that will arise during the period the editorial follows indications increase that reconverting to peace production is going to give congress more headaches than it suffered as it converted our industrial plants to war production this is understandable in war production all were lined up for our country in peace production eve every r fellow I 1 or group of fellows is lining up for himself or it itself elf and in far too many instances are lined up against Z each other the chief question when con converting concertin vertin to war production avas was how to unite our efforts and utilize our whole economy to successfully overcome the enemy in reconverting to civilian production myriads of questions are arising to which answers will be extremely difficult if not impossible I 1 to find some of these have been presented by stuart chase in a recent magazine article in a way that should make us very sympathetic to the struggles of congress in the days ahead he says towering above all others is the question who is going to order billion dollars worth cf goods and services a year when the government stops ordering what is a fair and orderly procedure for cancelling war contracts who gets the first crack at making civilian goods this question is already hissing around detroit can plymouth begin making king cars while chevrolet has to continue war work suppose chevrolet refuses any more war contracts when does the stampede from war plants begin as workers come to realize that what happened at brewster is going to happen to them what happens to the industrial revolution on the west coast when pittsburgh interests move in to clr clase se their new steel plants I 1 aluminum plants magnesium plants everybody is having a good cry about little business but where I 1 will little business and free enterprise be about six months month S after a f ter 1 the armistice who is going to collar all the taxpayers war plants and stockpiles stock piles where are jobs to be found for workers d displaced placed is by new inventions and machines speeded by war who is going to protect american exporters and importers from the monolithic state trading departments of russia britain and other nations what if rosie the riveter wont go home we have at least war boom towns what happens when they begin exploding |