Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1943 — Page 21
FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1948
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indiana University Economists Find Business Is ‘Normal’ for War Times
By ROGER BUDROW BUSINESS IS NOW PRACTICALLY NORMAL for a
war economy. That is what economists at Indiana university
conclude. Distribution and retail sales are advancing but production is barely creaking ahead.
“Full employment and practically ¢o>mplete transition from peacetime to wartime production leave little room for
any sizable immediate expansion,” the economists say. “Reasonably full operation of existing capacity is all that may be
anticipated in view of intermittent and local shortages of
diana business recovered much of the ground it lost in May due - THEATER UNI the weather and labor troubles. | time lost in getcoal production in| Even Though Some finished goods] in the coal in-|“Little Steel” formula to high pay coal strikes will be felt later when | atrical press agents whose top pay Te ma tive to Sept. 7, 1942, giving the various theaters and agencies ining to the Federal Reserve bank by the Association of Theatrical pared with oniy a 19 per cent | ciation empowered by its members Michigan. 3 n= recommendations by Prof. Paul and again resolved to accomplish WLB’s jurisdiction in the case be-
raw materials which must occur.” Last month, I. U. reports, In-| However, “recur- | ring labor stop-| pages and th N ting under on A — duction aftereach! , , ’ stoppage, reduced ‘Little Steel’ Formula Used Indiana materially in June. “The output of] Earn $5000. was little affected] WASHINGTON, July 23 (U. P.). by the stoppage| —The war labor board applied its dustry because of the inventory of | brackets today, awarding a $15 a raw materials and semi-finished) week wage increase to 280 New goods on hand; the effect of the| York theater managers and thethe materials affected by the strike, brackets henceforth will be $165 will be needed for finished steel|and $190 a week, respectively. production.” All pay increases will be retroacN managers and agents a lump sum INDIANAPOLIS Spartan) back-pay check of $675 each. The stores continue to make the best | oa] retroactive payment by the showing in the Midwest, accord- | volved will amount to aprpoximate[ly $189,000. of Chicago. | Al mployees were esented Sales here last week were 30 } empioysos Te Terese per cent over a year ago, com- |Agents and Managers and Union | (A. F. of LL). The League of New gain for the seventh federal re- | York Theaters, Inc, a trade assoserve district comprising most of | : ‘ ‘ ' . 3 ‘ : [to bargain with theatrical unions, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois and | represented the employers. The board's order was based on ODDS AND ENDS: The Eng-| Brissenden, WLB referee, who conlish Tunnel Co., now 62 years old,| ducted the hearings in the case. held a directors meeting recently] The league had challenged the the company’s original aim—to | cause some of the employees inbuild a tunnel from England to | volved earn more than $5000 a France as soon as possible. year.
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U. S. BUREAUS ARE DIE-HARDS
NRA Had Its Own Payroll Five Years After Its
Official Death.
By ROBERT TAYLOR Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Government bureaus die hard, and their p,5 kept “defense” as its middle corpses are apt to be very lively. name. It has béen on the defensive,
The NRA, of depression days, for plenty, and it Setelved illione ol ; ints from millions of people. instance, is keeping a staff of at-|COmP’a ODT has of necessity issued some tendants busy in the national tty sweeping regulations. They archives, as WPB and OPA re- hyrt, Director Eastman would like searchers dig into material compiled to emphasize that people might be
by NRA, for use in production and & little more careful in their attitude toward Washington, and not price control.
jump to the conclusion that the orNRA even had its own payroll for
T'| ders were issued just for the sake almost five years after it was offici-| of having some bureaucrat throw ally wiped out by a presidential or- his weight around. der in 1935. Transferred to the) As an example, Eastman mencommerce department for liquida- tioned the ODT order requiring the tion, its employees dwindled from
3,000,000 operators of America’s 1300 to 45 and the last one left the 4,500,000 trucks to get a “certificate payroll Nov, ‘15, 1840,
of war necessity.” This one order Going even farther back, the na-|prohably caused ODT more grief tional screw thread commission, es-
than any other of: its official acts. tablished in 1918 and abolished in'rg brought a maximum of com1933, still exists in the form of an plaints, most of which were justiindepartmental committee of the fied. jcommerce, war and havy depart{ments, With no budget of its own and no full-time employees, it uses! |the services of other departmental employees.
Liquidation Costly
The current crop of New Deal agencies to come under the congressional economy axe are doing a thriving business in liquidation—a job that requires millions of dollars and sizable payrolls, to judge Ky testimony given congressional appropriations committees. WPA, which wound up its workrelief program June 30, still has a staff of 179 here and four field agents, engaged in a liquidation which will cost $1,065,000 in the next year. The same administrative staff also is handling a $7,000,000 workrelief program for Puerto Rico, which will employ 400,000 persons through next November and now is feeding 200,000 Puerto Rican children.
Gets 3 Million to Quit
NYA, loser in a close struggle for survival in congress, wound up with a $3,000,000 appropriation to quit business. Its principal job will be to dispose of machinery and tools estimated variously as having a value up to $80,000,000. An example of how long it takes to liquidate a government agency and pare down its payroll is afforded by testimony given the house appropriations committee on the
(Fourth of a Series)
By PETER EDSON Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, July 23.—The job of office of defense transportation director Joseph B. Eastman is to keep the country on wheels, keep
it rolling. ODT is the only war agency that
Cemplaints Justified
Yet necessity forced the order, explained Eastman. The local rationing boards found they couldn't handle the truck gas rationing. The job was thrown on ODT, which had to jump into the middle of a complicated situation in a short time, build up a field organization, get out forms and bring truck operation under control to save gas and to save rubber, The order worked a lot of inequities, caused a lot of confusion. Many truck operators didn’t get as much gas as they needed. They had to file appeals—but that is exactly the course to take when one of these war emergency blanket orders covers a case unjustly. Provision is made for such appeal and for correction of errors, and that is the out for every distressed citizen on whom some hardship has been worked.
No Gas Returned
Consider, however, the cases of the truck operators who got too much gas. Did they file appeals to have their inequities corrected? Not on your life. Many drew their excess gas, dumped it on the black market, added to the general confusion. ODT's field force had to go look for those cases, through the inspectors in its 142 field offices. ODT is encouraging and trying to steer the shifting of cargo from rail to bus and bus to rail, rail freight to truck and truck to rail
HE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Millions Complain of Eastman's ODT, but His Job Is to Keep 'Em Rolling for Duration
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Joseph B. Eastman
freight, rail to water and water to rail wherever it thinks one system of transportation better than another, to lighten each other's loads. All such regulation is of course an interference with the shipper’s and the carrier's customary freedom of choice, and as such it is bound to meet with opposition even if it is recognized as a war necessity. Asks Truck Pooling
ODT expects good returns from its forthcoming “share the truck” campaign, designed to get truck shippers to pool loads and increase co-operation among truck operators. “Joint action plans” permitting truckers to pool their operations also stretch the transportation system. By orders such as these, with no appreciable increase in the number of vehicles on the road, truck mileage was increased 20 per cent over 1941, and truck traffic was increased 15 per cent. Crux of the entire defense transportation problem, as Eastman explains it, is the lightening of loads at peak periods of operation, and giving the carriers more to haul in their slack seasons.
Expect to Get By
For example, the peak of the rail freight movement is traditionally October, when fall farm crops move to market and when the demand for coal picks up. Licking that one calls for a campaign of getting people to buy their winter's coal in the summer and storing it for winter, as well as getting farmers to store their grain for later movement. Last year the railroads got a break that way, and this year, with smaller crops in sight, the roads believe they can get by again on equipment existing and in sight. Stretching that equipment, mak-
ing it do more, is a big part of the problem. In that connection, two of ODT’s orders, one requiring the filling to capacity of car load shipments, the other doubling the required loading on less than car load lots, had the effect of increasing the number of freight cars by 150,000. There is, nevertheless, a crying need for more equipment all the time—trucks, busses, barges, locomotives, cars and rails. Most pressing need is for more new rail for third tracking on the heavy traffic runs and for replacement of worn equipment. The old track, by the way, goes right back into service as sidings for war plants. Only 1.8 million tons of new trackage are being built, against demands for five million tons.
Standees Cheerful
In equipment, 200,000 freight cars are being built this year, against demands for 80,000. Nine hundred new locomotives are being built, but no new passenger cars, though passenger traffic rose from 30 billion passenger miles in 1941 to nearly 55 billion in 1942. ODT is the “claimant agency” before the war production board for materials going into this new equipment, and must fight the ‘battles of the carriers to keep the country rolling. The traveling public has submitted to the inconveniences of wartime travel pretty cheerfully, said Eastman. People often have to submit to near hardship, as when they have to stand up on a long journey, but much of this travel confusion could be avoided if people would stay off the trains and busses during the periods of peak travel and be persuaded by the several “don’t travel” campaigns which ODT has sponsored to spread vacations outside the July and August rush season, to cancel conventions, to stay home.
Crisis on Way
This is a hard bill of goods to sell, largely because it is impossible for the individual to get away from the feeling of “one person more won't do any harm.” That same spirit, incidentally, is at the bottom of the failure of the car-sharing plan to achieve anything like the savings in gas and rubber which it might. The country’s transportation system hasn't broken down and it isn’t going to. But it is not over the hump, Mr. Eastman will tell you flatly. Demands on the transportation system are going to ges heavier. The gas shortage may get worse. The rubber situation is still here. To get by is going to require a lot more public co-operation.
windup of affairs of the civilian conservation corps. When the CCC quit work June 30, 1942, it had 11,642 employees. Three months later, it still had 3175 on the payroll. By the end of 1942, the number was down to 943 and by last ‘March 30, the payroll stood at 523. CCC spent nearly $3,000,000,000 during the nine years it operated and its liquidation cost the taxpayers about $6,500,000 during the past year in which property worth more than $127,000,000 was transferred, principally to the army and navy. CCC still has a $20,000 appropriation for the new fiscal year, and a small staff to answer queries about the $500,000 worth of camp buildings |due to any lag in the output of | still held by it. Allison engines. ' Allison production, the company “far exceeded the scheduled
FTC CRACKS DOWN [miseries ON CEMENT MAKERS
cent in total airplane production had been scheduled in June over May production and shipments of WASHINGTON, July 23 (U. P.).—|Allison liquid-cooled engines did The federal trade commi: fon has increase 14 per cent.” issued an order designed t, return competition to the cement business and give the benefit of lower prices
“In addition, June production and shipments represented an increase to private and governmental purchasers.
of 34 per cent over production and Acting on the basis of recent
shipments in January, 1943. “Furthermore, this increase was : accomplished during a period when hearings, the FTC announced last|approximately 2500 women workers night that it had ordered the Cement institute and 75 member corporations to cease and desist
—most of whom never had worked in industry before—were added to Allison shop payrolls. from engaging in or continuing any “While shipments were increasing combination or conspiracy to seil cement at prices established by use of their so-called multiple basingpoint delivered-price system. The corporations affected produce 75 per cent of the Portland cement manufactured in this country and the FTC found that the concentration of a large proportion of the industry “in the control of relatively few individuals has aided in creating and maintaining unity of purpose. . . .” It said that the practices engaged in were unfair methods of competition in violation of the federal trade act and the delivered price system results in discrimination among respective customers, a violation of the RobinsonPatman act.
ALLISON CITES
Points Out June Lag in Plane Production Not Due To Local Plants. The Allison division of General Motors Corp. pointed out today that
the lag in production of airplanes and airplane parts in June was not
on the payroll did not increase correspondingly.”
LOCAL ISSUES
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IGKES ACCUSED OF BOSSING OIL FIRMS 55%.
WASHINGTON, July 23 (U. P.)— fiotely Bros pr pte Harold L. Ickes’ petroleu adminis- | Union Title com .... ‘tration for war was accused today yah Eamb Mik prd ‘of seeking to control the manner of . Bonds a teas mas» SE ELLE oe of its power to alloca an Cent 51 ... the oil industry. Ch of Com Bldg Co. 414s 81... 78 The charge was made by Harold Tizens ind Tel 4ias 61 103 L. Allen, general counsel for the ing Asso Tel Co 3iisi0’ ” house special committee Investigs-| I dnis Ea 8 0 ai 0 ting administrative practices, who revealed that his committee has Kokomo Water Works 5s 58 ..
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The securities and exchange commission will hold a hearing Aug. 2 to determine whether stop orders should be issued against two registration statements of Crowley, Milner & Co. Detroit department store. The store proposes to sell $3,238,600 of certificates and debentures. SEC said it has reasons to believe the registration statements include “untrue statements of material facts and omit to state material facts required.” ® ” ”
Shell Union Oil Corp. reported net income for the three months ended June 30 of $5,368,006, equal to 41 cents a share after taxes and charges, compared with 19 cents a year in the corresponding 1942 quarter,
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Construction awards in the 37 eastern states in the first six months of this year totaled $1,851,272,000, a decline of $1,872,453,000 from the first half of 1942, F. W. Dodge Corp. reported. Non-residential building was down 54%, residential building 50% and heavy engineering work down 449%,
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up by today’s demand from the Appalachian coal operators for action in forcing John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers to accept the board’s directive of June 18 prescrib-
ing the terms of a new contract, which would release their properties from government control. The operators sent their sharply worded appeal to William H. Davis, WLB chairman, but they might well have addressed it to President Roosevelt, because the board is waiting for him to act in this and a dozen other compliance cases. The beard informed the president on June 22 it was unanimous in advising that its directive order should be enforced “and that all the powers of government necessary for its enforcement should be exercised.”
Steel Plant Delayed
Other potential trouble-makers for the board include: 1. It has “requested” William L. Hutcheson and Harvey Brown, presidents, respectively, of the large and powerful Carpenters and Machinists union, to appear for a public hearing next Tuesday of their 30-year-old jurisdictional controversy, which at present is delaying new steel-production facilities in Granite City, Ill. This old row has just caused the Machinists to withdraw from the American Federa~tion of Labor, in which Mr. Hutcheson is a leading figure. One possibility is that the board's entry into this explosive case might cause its A. FP. of L. members to refuse to participate in it. 2. A direct threat of C. I. O. as well as A. F. of L, withdrawal from WLR, or at least from support of its wage-stabilization program, was left with President Roosevelt yesterday by Philip Murray and William Green—unless the administration proceeds with a rollback of food prices to levels of Sept. 15, 1942. If that is not done, said the C. I’ O. and A. F. of L. presidents, “it will, of course, be impossible for organized labor to continue in its support of the wage and price
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Denies Shipbuilders’ Raise
3. WLB wage-freezing will be emphasized in its largest case when the board makes official announcement soon of its denial of a general pay boost for more than a million shipbuilding workers in 185 yards, involving both the C. I. O. Marine and Shipbuilding workers and the A. F. of L. Metal Trades department. This action, upholding the “Little Steel” formula, was voted against by the board's labor members. The board's compliance difficulties, which some of its members say are the key to its future usefulness, were the subject of questions from R. L. Ireland Jr. and Edward R. Burke, coal operator spokesmen, in their demand for action against John L. Lewis. They inquired of Chairman Davis: “What merit is there in your taking jurisdiction of a wage dispute and making a finding if you do not obtain compliance with your order? “What justification have you for existence. if those parties in dis-
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Unless FDR Supports Its Policies, It May Fold Up; Coal Operators Demand Lewis Be Compelled
Return of Mines.
By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, July 23.—The dog days will be hot days for the war labor board. to a focus within the next few weeks and unless the White House is ready with succor and support it might go down, or suffer sweeping changes in its policies and membership, One of its main problems is getting compliance with its orders against unions or employers, and this is pointed
Its numerous troubles point
pute who carry out your orders to the letter have their properties seized while the culprit dictates the terms of seizure? “What industry or union can ree spect your board if it continues te pursue its present course of cone duct?” The board made no reply, and was believed not yet ready to say it has exhausted its own powers. Ine stead it is waiting for the White House to proceed.
May Quit Dues Collecting
The operator spokesmen took Ope casion to point out their belief that the new Connally-Smith war labor disputes act “gave your board new powers and congressional status,” a basis for their hope that “at last your board would take proper ace tion to see to it that our mines were returned to us and that come pliance by Mr. Lewis and ‘his ore ganization would be forthcoming.” However, under that law, enforces ment of board orders seems still to be left to the judgment of the president and methods available under his war powers. In the cases of corporations he has seized their properties, and in all except the coal case has returned them to their owners. He has not used any “sanctions” against disobedient unions, although in the case of the mine workers, the government, as operator of the mines, could suspend collection of union dues under the check-off system.
May Be Rejected
The Appalachian operators’ come plaint made no mention of a tentae tive agreement between the miners’ union and the Illinois Coal Opera tors association, an organization whose members employ about 30,000 men, in comparison with 330,000 in the Appalachian area. The Appala« chian letter, however, was regarded as formal notice that the Illinois agreement is not accepted as ‘a standard for the industry and therefore no solution for the long coal controversy. : The Illinois agreement is before the board for approval, the quese tion being whether its provisions for portal-to-portal pay contain a camouflaged pay boost in violation of stabilization policies. Unofficial comments indicated probable re= jection of the Illinois portal-toe portal plan.
WHEAT PRICES RISE ON BOARD OF TRADE
CHICAGO, July 23 (U. P.).= Wheat futures developed an inde pendently easy tone on the Board of Trade today. At the end of the first hour wheat was off 1% to 12 cent a bushel; oats up % to 1 cent and rye up 3% to 1 cent. In the July options wheat was off % to % cent from the previous $1447: @%: oats up % to 1 cent from 70% @170, and rye up 1 cent from $1.08. Evening up operations in the July deliveries, which end today, brought about a stronger tone in oats and rye, but weaker in wheat.
WAGON WHEAT R p to the close of the Chicago mar today, Indianapolis flour mills snd elevators paid $1.57 per bushel for No. 1 red wheat (other giades on their merits), No. 2 white oats, 60c, and No. 2 red cats, 0c; No. 3 yellow shelled corn, 97¢ per bushel, and No. 2 white shelled corn, $1.1&
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