Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1943 — Page 32
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Labor Stabilization Plan Here
Working Out as 5 es Expected |
—By ROGER BUDROW
SINCE THE § STORY BROKE ON PAGE ONE not much has been said about the labor stabilization plan for Indian-
‘apolis. Well, it’s coming along fine, thank you, say man-|
power officials in charge of it. : About 800 concerns have signed the pledge to abide by
are checking with their legal staff or the home office/ However, that does not mean that they are not co-operating.
(N. Y., telephone users get a buzz at ! the end of three minutes now—to
They are. So far the Indianapolis war manpower committee has not had a single instance of any firm balking. of Sore, it doesn’t expect any for the simple reason that the plan was drawn up by rep-
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resentatives off.
management, labor and government and was mutually. agreed to before it was
he must show sg = scertificate of Mr, Budrow availability from his former employer. There . are four cases pending before the manwer review unit in which there a disagreement on whether or not the war effort will be helped hy ing ‘the workers take other 0 Most workers think that if they can make more money somewhere else, that is sufficient reason for changing jobs. - Of course, it isn’t. AIt is probably on that issue where most ‘eases will come before the review unit. One industry has already been added to the list of essential industries here—the commercial laundries. One other is due to be added any time now and possibly a third,
NE RATION.JITTERY public is getting over its jitters somewhat. Buying in department stores in Indianapolis last week subsided considerably, the federal reserve bank in Chicago reports, but at that, sales were 8 per cent higher than last week » year ago, 2 EVEN IP the Re alti's railroads obtain materials to build 80,000 new freight cars and 900 new locomotives before October, as they hope WPB will permit, they must increase their efficiency at least 5 per cent more to meet demands, according to M. J. Gormley, executive assistant of the Association of American Railroads. On this side of the Atlantic, railroads have their problems but they're Hothing like those in occupied Europe where an engineer never knows when a British or American plane will swoop down and blow up his locomotive with a well-aimed can-| non shot, :
ODDS. AND ENDS: Roshsster,
shorten conversations. . . . A federal income taxpayer at Pittsburgh is paying his (or her) 20-cent tax in quarterly payments—nickel every three months. . . . A seat on the Chicago stock exchange sold for $1400 the other day; a low of $300 was paid early this year... . The WPB may permit some resumption of typewriter manufacture, according fo trade talk. . . . After bitter complaints about the failure to expand British steel plants, the government has bought a steel company (Bar-. row Hematite) and will expand it. . . About 195,000 tons of synthetic rubber will be turned out this year, according to best guesses, against hoped-for 300,000 tons,
CLEAR WRECKAGE OF 15 FREIGHT CARS
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 26 (U. P.).—A Monon railroad crew cleared the wreckage of 15 freight ‘cars from main line trackage today after a derailment six miles south
a or ¢ accident occurred in a deep cut near Harrodsburg shortly before midnight last night, and passenger trafic was detoured via Mitchell, Midland and Wallace Junction. Railroad officials said the mishap probably was caused by recent rains, No crew members were, hurt.
WAGON WHEAT Up to the ‘close of the Chicago market today, polis Sous our mills and grain elevators paid $1.52 per bushel for No. red wheat (other: es on. their merits). Be: Nors Seltow co sad Xo. pet “Bathe ¢; No. and N o-'3 white corn, $1.04,
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Restaurants, Institutions “Able to Buy Meat “Early Next Week.
Emergency points will be issued to Testayirants and other institution al users’ so that they may buy meats and fats early next week, Aléx M. Taggart, Marion county rationing administrator, said today. ° The move is being made to allow time for the institutional users to file their inventories and receive their -regular allotments of points for the month of April. Without the issuance of the emergency points, most of the institutional users would be unable to buy meat early in the week. The emergency certificates will be used in lieu of the permanent registration certificates to be: issued later. Mr. Taggart: said: that the certificates will be -mailed by county rationing boards in time to reach the institutional users by Monday morning.. They include operators of restaurants, churches, hospitals, soda fountains, drug stores, factory canteens and lunchrooms. _The institutional users must file inventories with their local boards between next Monday and April 7. The inventory figures are to be based on the close of business Sunday. Affer the inventory is filed, the allotment of points for April will be
figured, the emergency certificate
points deducted and the remaining
points issued.
Only shoes from size 4 down are not rationed, the OPA reminded dealers today. The misunderstanding came up again because the shoe inventory form which retailers must file next month asks for the number of infants shoes on hand in the 5 to 8 range. The OPA didn’t catch the omission in time but that doesn’t mean size shoes are not rationed. Rh LRT og SE in The amotmt of scrap fron and
steel obtained from automobile graveyards in Indiana has been getting less.
In December, 4093 tons were obtained; January 3454 tons and
February 3093 tons, according to P. D. Dimmitt of the WPB scrap. proce essors branch. He -said all auto
graveyards should have a complete inventory turnover every two months,
When owners of fleets ask a rationing board for tires, tubes or recapping service, they need not bring the unit certificate of war ‘necessity . covering specific truck but only the:master certificate for the whole fleet, the ODT announced.
GRAINS TAKE DROP
CHICAGO, March 26 (U. P.)— Grain futures declined on the Board of Trade today influenced by reported opposition to farm bills. At the end of the first hour wheat was off % to % cent a bushel, corn unchanged, oats off % to % and rye off % to 7%. The recession in rye, commission house selling and poor support all combined to depress the wheat market. i Prices in the rye pit dropped as much as 1% cents a bushel under commission house liquidation. Bearish sentiment forced the break, and on the downturn, local: buying | helped ‘to partly recover losses.
COAL PRODUCTION RISES WASHINGTON, March 26 (U. P.). —Bituminous coal production during the week ended March 20 approximated 12,360,000 net tons, an increase of 11.6 per cent over the 11,075,000 tons produced in the corresponding 1942 period, the Na-
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Army-Conducted Tour Of State.
By DON CARLSON United Press Staff Correspondent LA PORTE, Ind.,, March 26. — A number of Indiana newspapermen who are on an army-conducted tour of Hoosier war plants and installations this week became the first group of its kind to witness actual line operations at the Kingsbury ordnance plant.
Thé® newspapermen were permitted to watch production of shells at the 20-square mile plant. About 11,000 workers, coming from all sections of northern Indiana and the eastern part of Illinois, go to work daily at the separated production and storage centers.
Production Guarded
The plant was built by the government in about 16 months. Today an army, that is largely feminine, labors ‘behind the protective plant walls that guard each production line. Newspapermen watched girls, clad in white powder uniforms, pour liquid 'TNT—in its most sensitive form—into the casings of 75 millimeter shells to be used in anti-air-craft guns. They were permitted to visit lines that afforded an insight that even had been guarded from important Shoes Taped Safety precautions were taken. Our shoes were taped, metallic articles were removed from pockets, and regular pencils were replaced with metal-less pencils. Mothers and grandmothers, former store clerks, automobile salesmen, grocery clerks and ministers are members of Kingsbury’s army. Most of them are people who never dreamed’ that someday they would be ‘working with explosives. Kingsbury is a city in itself. Lieut.-Col. Edward J. Thomas, the commanding officer, explained that
area and that there are almost 100 miles of roadway within the district. The plant area actually covers 13,000 acres. There are 1213 buildings
LOCAL ISSUES
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breed hens, $ 20%: Ti The. and waar: 233%c; Legh
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WASHINGTON, March 26 (U.P). |] —The Jeary drain of the March 15|sm
its the women who make them at the Kingsbury Ordnance plant. get their final inspection before being crated for shipment.
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Lady Drummer. Now Beats Out Shells for Uncle Sam
LA PORTE, Ind, March 26 (U. P) ~For more than 25 years, Mrs. Mayme Alvene Steele of Valparaiso stomped on a pedal that made bass drums go boom. Today she is the member of an army of 11,000 workers engaged in the business of making articles that “go boom.” Furthermore, she’s still stomping on a pedal. “It’s the same as it always was,” gray-haired Mrs, Steele. “This is nothing néw for me,” she told newspapermen Kingsbury plant. Except for a brief period when she served as a practical nurse at Hebron and Gary, Mrs. Steele has kept her right foot busy. It’s busier than ever these days—busier than it was when her family orchestra played fox trots. Mrs. Steele is employed on the line that makes 40-millimeter anti-aircraft shells. She operates a machine that stamps a part of “the casing. ~-- The job, she said, probably would be a tiresome one if it were not for 25 years of practice—25 years of beating a bass drum.
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FREIGHT RATE PLAN
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ity today recommended to congress abolition of the five-region system
nation-wide system to help the Atghison South and the West achieve greater industrial development. Bend Ind The TVA report, four years in, the making, was sent to congress by|Boricn President Roosevelt with -a brief, e formal message of transmittal. It described the present regionalized system of freight rates as a “barrier to national productiveness,” | 5° and said that standardization was Doug necessary if the South and West were to achieve “greater industrial Gen development to absorb: the surplus|Goodr Hud eho M & 828 Ing : 103 ater.
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LIMIT RAIL SERVICE FOR DERBY FAN
The Pennsylvania railroad, only passenger line between Indianapolis and Louisville, is co-operating with the office of defense transportation to eliminate travel to Louisville for the Kentucky derby May 1, the office of war information said.
No reservation will be made be-||
fore April 26 for travel to Louisville from that day to May 1 or for travel out of Louisville on. May 1, 2 or 3. Those buying Pullman tickets to Louisville between April 26 and
May 1 will not be able to make advance return reservations for May 1,2 or 3. ' : These restrictions do not apply to members of the armed forces, | holders of government transportation requests or other war-connected travel. Seven other railroads also are co-eperating, the OWI said. The bus lines have agreed to an ODT request not’ to furnish additional service for derby week-end,
U.S. STATEMENT
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| NEW YO! March 26 (U. P.) —Henry J. Kaiser charged ip YORE, Mash 2 3. P)_THenry J. Kalas chacged ye had joined with the United States Steel Corp. DE
against the Kaiser shipbui yards. = “Apparently the United States Steel Corp. is a partner in crime
the O. IL O, using the same method of smearing our yards,’ »
KAISER PRAISE Et bring IRKS C. 1 0. AD:
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yards Are Doing as Well; Hits ‘Ballyhoo.’
WASHINGTON, March 26 Lp dustrial Union of Marine an building Workers (C. 1. O.), charged yesterday that admitted achieve ments of the Henry J. Kaiser shipyards “are blown up into miracles,” and that many other yards “are turning out ships faster and more
Testifying before the senate Truman war investigating committee, Green objected to the lavish tri-|° utes accorded Kaiser for his well-| publicized speed in turning out merchant vessels, and said that “extravagant praise” of the company had been used as an excuse for “unfair and undemocratic relations”
blown up into miracles and his failures are played down or suppressed,” he said. “Has the mari-
instances of Kaiser-built ships cracking up?” This was an allusion to a recent incident at the Kaiser yards, when a partly-finished ship split in two. Admits Difficulty The maritime = commission acknowledged inh a statement that the welding process used in this instance had on certain occasions led to difficulty because it produced what are known as “locked-in stresses.” “The rare occurrence of this difficulty, however, was far Offset by the speed accomplished through | welding methods, which. when properly handled tend to eliminate locked-in stresses and the resulting possibility of cracking,” the commission said. ; Green said “at least 50 per cent of the press accounts of his (Kaiser's) work are ballyhoo.” “Many of our older yards, unattended by corps of superfluous publicity men, are turning out ships
Taster and more efficiently,” he said.|
He accused the Kaiser firm of entering a closed-shop agreement with an A. F. of L. union in one instance where only 66 men had been hired in an area. + Charges Collusion “This forced every one of the 70,000 to 80,000 workers since hired in Kaiser’s three Oregon yards to Join a bargaining unit which tkey had no hand in choosing,” he said.
Green alleged also that officials)
of the maritime commission and department of labor have told workers in West coast plants that “they
F.of L” His union had evidence, he said, of a conversation between representatives of these two agencies, a C. I. O. official and the head of a prefabricating plant at Olympia, Wash., in which the government oflcials| insisted the firm “must a gate the agreement (existing) with thé C. I. O. and sign with the A. P. of L.» C. I. O. efforts to upset the A. F. of L. contract will not hamper production at the Kaiser yards, he argued. On the other hand, he added, “Unfair labor practices” -as evi-
WASHINGTON, March 28 (U, _
_P.)~—John P. Frey, president of the A. F. of L. metal'irades coun=
cil, proposed today that the Wage ner act be suspended for the durs . ‘ation so that the national labor !
on workers,
Commenting on Mr. Green's | { testimony. today before the Truman senate committee in W. Mr. Kaiser sald be apparently was “reverting to falsehood in order to secure the pot of gold in dues ‘ag ® our shipyards which amounts to approximately $1,000,000 a month
" Blames Steel for Break in Ship
Mr. Kaiser called attention to testimony before the Truman come mittee indicating that the breake ing up of the Kaiser ship Schenece tady had been due, in part, to's “poor quslity of steel.” E e said that the steel for the nectady came from the Homes stead works of the Carnegie- tlinois Steel Corp. He said that the Truman come mittee had received a hithérto une published statement from @®rof, § H. Graf, steel expert of the Amerie can bureau of shipping committee, saying that the failure of the ship was due “to a combination of une, favorable circumstances, including . hogging stress, the difference bow, tween water and air temperat and a very poor quality of steel. these, the last named is believed to. be the most serious.”
Give Food—Not | - Kisses—for Bond's
VALPARAISO, Ind, March 26 (U. 'P.)—Some war bond rallies offer kisses from movie stars—bus Porter county has what'is an even - more enticing commodity. : Listed for auction at a war bond rally séheduled for Friday night: are chickens, eggs, home-canned fruits and vegetables, coffee, sugar, canned beef, seed potatoes,” "a pig and a spring lamb. Highest bidders will pay for bonds, and get the fdod free.
| OPA’ BANS GAS SALE
‘BY STATE OPERATOR
“CLEVELAND, O., March 26 (U, P)~Frank Metz of Winchester, Ind, has been prohibited from selling or receiving gasoline for resale at his retail station for 8 [two-week period beginning March: 20, Fred S. Glover Jr. regional office .bf price administration hearings commissioner, announced yese terday. Glover said Metz had been found in possession of 28 number 4 gasbe line stamps, and eight number 8 stamps, all of which were invalid when honored by Metz.
denced in “collusive agreements” between the company and the A. F. of L. do serious damage to workers’ morale. He told the committee that the existing “no-raiding” agreement between the A. F.of L. and C. I. O. is, under certain conditions, “not
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