Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1941 — Page 10

168-HOUR WEEK

Country Has Only to Start Working: Fatigue Only Real Barrier.

By PETER EDSON Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—If there is any question as to how the coun-| try goes on the seven-day week, any| holding back on the part of anyone] having an idea that some new law| must be passed or a couple of old] laws must be repealed before all-) out production for war can get going, let such hesitations vanish. All| the country has to do to start work-| ing 168 hours a week is to start] working 168 hours a week. There have been some critics of| the Administration's labor policy who have erroneously believed that) both the Walsh-Healy Act governing minimum working conditions on Government contracts and the act

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dustry in general, put a ceiling aver the 40-hour week. Nothing could be further from the fact. Administrators of both acts have issued blanket regulations which went into efféct with the two laws, specifying that unlimited overtime| can be worked and unlimited shifts, |

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By GEORGE GALLUP Director, AReric EL n3titete

United “States and Germany and Italy came as no great surprise to the American people. Although the public had: hoped to, avoid war with Germany and had at no time favored taking the initiative in carrying the war to the Nazis, nevertheless as early as 18 months ago a majority of voters were reconciled to war and believed t h a t hostilities were bound to come. Moreover, after the invasion and conquest of France, a steadily rising majority believed that it was rhore important that Germany be defeated than that the United States stay out of war. Even before Germany went to

not want to go to: war, on. other hand it did not. want Hitler to win. : In the early days of the conflict, polls showed quite clearly that fear of war was the more dominant in the public mind. The majority felt that staying out of war was more important than aiding Britian at the risk of war.

- Toward the end of 1040, however, | thet this country keep out of war, tionist sentiment began or that Germany be defeated?” to decline. By December, 60 per ! Defeat Stay cent thought that’ contributing to Germany Out the defense of Hitler was more im-|Dee., 1940 .....e.0.... 60% 40% portant to. the. United States than|Jan, 1941 ..... cei... 68 32 staying out of war. Api 'TERERET EARNER ER 67 33 oa trend since that time fol- LY Bess sR raacistans go 3 ows: Bo var dune de vhene ee “Which of these two things do|Nev. ....... MS 33 | you think is the more important—| Dec. (before war)..... 68 3

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too. No one has to write to Wash- : : . : Ey nls ‘ 3 ra a sal ington to get permission to put a| Awaiting transportation to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station after signing up with the Navy, this decided that, while it did not favor 24-hour-day operation in any plant.| pauccome mobilized informally for » card game in the lobby of the Federal Building. The floor seemed to | 5, all-out shooting war against the

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physical and psychological, not As England found out afver, Du rk, there is a fatigue point| bevond which a worker's efficiency is so impaired that it is unprofitable to keep him on the job. His mis-

British Cracking Axis Armor in Libya: Nazis Unable to Fly Tanks From Europe

The American attitude was neither wholly isolationist nor wholly interventionist; it was predominantly an attitude of self-defense, War Not Wanted On the isolationist side stood the fact that, up to the sudden and un-

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takes that must be scrapped during| By RICHARD MOWRER |ened as well. More British tanks) in the campaign indicating the des<| provoked Japanese attack on Hafatigue are more coy than hiS | Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times have been thrown into the battle perate condition of the Axis Army. wail pi Lp IAlGIILY J a production which can be used. Just| and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. |and more American M-3's are scoot-| First was the withdrawal from tion (SPpostd obting ‘war Pas ERE where this fatigue point comes iS| GAIRO, Dec. 17.—The British of-|ing over the desert doing thelr suit | "C0 TCM RELIOR Sle entrison| UD 0 last week, the Institite had & fo TE fer on, but it's in the neighborhood | fensive in Libya, which has now | en. oh most of the fronts, Stub-|fought its way out and the New| undertaken many pubiis Opinion + ARE Neen, / gids bn of 60 hours a week ended its fourth week, seems more porn rearguard actior, the enemy | Zealanders fought their way in, and Ee pe question, oe we : i te BOTH RING More than a year ago, England jikeiv to gain momentum than to! using the remaining tanks and A fought with nen latest polls on that issue before fF NE J er ies Ecker. | artlery to over the Tali back of (ht tre Axl command feared | SUES BE 100 10 he pete and Labor Minister Bevin put the| Despite considerable losses in. | IRE motorised imrantey. BO or | Gambut area, hence the speedy and|in every five, on the average, fa- , ~ , : leurred in. the first two weeks of] TODIUK, between the perime er | Sisorderly Axis withdrawal voring. war, and earlier studies had country back on the basic 48-hour © ® ii} + y ple and Gambut, the enemy's with- > ge 8 : shown virtually the same result week, standard practice in Britain attack, the British have been able 3 : | Second was the destruction, by!’ > ¢ TW is their drawal! came close to being a rout.| At the outbreak of the European will Some me ele he : 0 Feorzan An yn mat.| In the Sidi-Resegh and El-Duda| South African armored cars, on Dec... in 1939, the American public n the Uni tates, with a basic, forces in record time. - 2, S |5, of 60.000 gallons is 939, y 40-hour week, there have been vari- ter of reinforcements and supplies, | Sectors, wnere He rider he ia he OH of Baal Tuel il was faced with a choice between ous suggestions for schedules to put/ they have done better than the tween the British Eighth Army a [loss to the Akis immediately diminthe 24-hour day, seven-day week| Germans and Italians, whose ad- the Tobruk garrison WAS Opened, |. p.q the range and mobility of its into practice. Steel companies! vantage of short communications the Germans and Itallans had to ...ve trucks and some of its chemical industries, glass factories, |with the European continent con- get out fast, leaving behind a multi-j jo. 0c rayon mills, oil refineries and simi- tinues to be seriously impaired by tude of light arms, supplies and un- The destruction of this big fuel lar plants in which continuous op-|the British Navy, the fleet air arm, buried dead. dump eliminated to a serious Seaver eration is essential have worked out and the Royal Air Force, | Axis Fuel Destroyed the possibility of an Axis surprise this problem in different ways. | It is now a known fact that the ; ppl attack through the desert, in the There being 168 hours in a week,| Germans have diverted a portion of| This last is a significant item be-| bh on the Britishers’ 16ft flank the four-shift, 40-hour week sched-|ineir air power from the Russian cause the Germans make it a point, | 4 ro + Sine the dest ti ule takes up only 160 hours, and| front to Libya to stem the British| before withdrawing, of leaving none ypc gi SHI LOC ci leaves an awkward eight (hours 0 aqvance. They are even now flying | of their dead in view, the ilea being | captured or destroyed " stagger into the schedule. Four 42-/.. occ the Mediterranean from/to demoralize the enemy by making] The quantities of Asis gasoline hour would fill up the week Greece on their JU-52 troop-car-!him think he has inflicted no casu-| captured at El-Adem were consid. nicely, | : as this IYOIYSS TWO hours | ners. Some of these have been alties upon his opponents. | ered so important by the Germans of a erlme on iv & a ed 8% | shot down. But east and southeast of Tobruk, that on two occasions they risked not been generally adopted. Moreover, the Axis armor in the Axis had no time to bury its|sending fighters to the area with Week-End Blackout Must Go |pihya appears to be cracked due 0] dead and some of the troops had no| the definite mission of setting fire Other difficulties encountered in| ejentless hammering by the Brit-/:ime to get out themselves. The!to the dumps to prevent the British fitting 40-hour shifts into the 168- ih armored forces and, while Ger-! Axis was using its strongest foree | using the fuel and thereby perhaps hour week for continuous production | yians can fly from Europe, they! farther south, for fear of British to relieve their pressure on the hay 9 been the preiins dethanged cannot fly tanks across—at least encirclement | retreating Axis forces. BY Jeb = SOE TO ne 1h ot he hedium tanks = which| 11 the EI-Gubi area we saw no It is worth noting in connection willingness to work on night shifts| hey relied with considerable suc-|gead, but even here the Axis had with the Axis’ fuel problems in

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and the consequent unequal rates “5 UP until a week ago. {to leave behind valuable stores of Libya that since early September, while the British armor hat been| aside from Axis attempts to get/miles away, instead of from Libyan : FOR YOUR tries on a 100 per cent productive | change of blows and been strength=| Medi‘erranean, two things occurred | Tobruk perimeter, the elimination of this week-end ay 17. SEWEL ministrator but now Federal Works 41 NY py’ ———— 3 \ x : a be eliminated, leaving overtime pay gardless of when the overtime falls. trator of the Division of Public ph J Sh fh bay 5 a r n Healv Act, goes so far as to say that centive to multi-shift operation in avoid having to pay overtime wages. blackout and put labor on a 168Washington is that evolved by the The schedule calls for three 8time for each crew. By ingenious BULOVA and these five extra shifts take care $7 50 hours & week. The schedule has " 1 97s I” in a row, then gets at least 48 hours a The Maj. Henry W. Lawton Camp ER camp at Ft. Wayne. Fourteen men tuted By the local in two’ months. ZENITH Cream Deodorant \ : i A, mor sole for the tines tly \ : pone ul tubes Stops Perspiration Ra HAM 2 Rotor Wavemacnetl an ¢ i forgan

between day and night work. But the R. A. F. is still stronger water quantities of gasoline, antl at| many of the German air raids on one of the biggest problems to lick) footing. OPM Director William S blackout i . ming, W blackout. Gen. Philip B. Fle g HEA Agency administrator, has also : 10 \ pi ) 0 DAE — to be calculated solely on the basis One Firm Solved Problem Contracts in the Department of the overtime provisions of existing that they should tend to make emIn discussion of practical plans hour week in all war industries, Timken Roller Bearing Co. of Canhour shifts a day operated by four scheduling, each crew works five : Se BULOVA 3 L of the eight hours remaining in each § | \ been worked out so carefully that NEL TT) Lg off. after which he changes shifts IT No. 30, Sons of Spanish-American § 3 EER TR o x : 2 J Th eae signed the charter last week to ich ai a t n 3 17 JEWEL fier. -pall eives American y Canin faery BERS SEEKS : ol : : Ti leh Concert ;

The Saturday-Sunday blackout isin the African sky than the AXIS jeast one Italian field hospital. |Tobruk originated from Crete, 250 in putting the country’s war indus-| Patched up since the earlier ex- reinforcements to Libya acrose the|airdromes only 19 miles from the Knudsen has repeatedly called for| CONVENIENCE until recently wage and hour adurged that the week-end penalties ; of hours worked in excess of 40, re- CHA ei Ug I, Metcalfe Walling, adminisLabor. which handles the Walshlabor legislation are really an inployers put on more shifts just to to solve the Saturday - Sunday one scheme attracting attention in ton. O. crews =o at to rotate the working extra 8-hour shifts every 20 weeks, JEWE NEES y Pink gold plate week when four crews work 40 every man works five 8-hour days Ts SET UP NEW CAMP aE se 7 War Veterans, have set up a new : 10-TUBE faunch the second new group instiNew underarm RADIO } Pl JEWEL HAMILTON roadcasts, Automall © niin ser wilh Outer © ¥ : 2% ties. a Grand : ALR 3 LE we ! ged . gy 00 Sat Lanter: £ NNN WTR AE : oJ 3-3 L.Ed NNR ee a es ~ TT)

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