Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1944 — Page 8
"WAGE CUARANTEE
Steelworkers’, Auto Workers’ Demands for Assurance of ~ Yearly Pay Obscured by Present Formula Fight;
No Immediate Action by WLB Is Forecast.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—Some say this city has too . many monuments already, but there's a nice vacant plot or two available for the statue of the statesman—political, in-
dustrial or labor—who first
works out a practicable plan
to guarantee steady work the year around for the niany
millions of men and women salaries. ‘The subject is up now because a guaranteed annual wage is a part of the current demands of two powerful C. I -O. unions—the Steelworkers and the Automobile Workers. But it is obsecured by the more pressing demands of these organizations for boosts in hourly pay. The annual wage demands, like the pay-boost demands, are before the war labor board for recommendations to the President. All {ndications are that WLB will not take hold of this question, partly because of widespread doubt as to whether government, even with the large powers it has assumed in wartime, could arbitrarily order such a Sweeping change in employment practices, The board panel which reported on the facts of the steel wage controversy made no recommendation on the annual-wage phase. The management members opposed, the labor members approvéd, and the public members if effect concurred with the management members. However, they carefully pointed out that their judgment was confined to the specific annual-wage plan ‘that had been submitted by the steel union.
Plan Guarantees Rate
Under this plan the worker who had an average hourly rate of $1 would be guaranteed $40 weekly the year around, or an annual stipend of $2080, whether or not there was work for him every week. The union suggested that the pay for idle weeks could be taken out of the surplus funds of the steel companies, or from what it describes as a form of guaranteed income for the companies under current tax laws, The companies have denied that surplus funds is a general condition among the many units of the steel industry, and the smaller concerns have been particularly vehement in declaring that a prescription for a guaranteed wage would: bankrupt them.
Great Step Anticipated
There is growing belief that eventually the problem will be solved, and from the solution may come a greater forward step than yet has been chronicled in the general economic as well as the labor conditions of this country. The answer may come through
. advance surveys of public demand
for products of industry, from which production could be planned & year or more ahead, and employ-
ment could be regularized for such
periods. The employer would know how many men he could use and pay, and the worker would have assurance that he would not be 1aid off for reasons of slack production. Some Enterprise Started
Por instance, if automobile production could be splanned a year in advance, the demands for steel from that source could be charted, and the steel industry could plan its operations more certainly than it has been able to do in peacetime periods. “Eventually, steady work or regularized employment might spread through the entire structure of American industry. The movement already is under way in some individual enterprises.
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SMALL CAR OUTPUT VIEWED
Auto Men Study Post-War Cheap Model as
Temporary.
By JOHN W. LOVE Scripps-Howard Staff Writer DETROIT, Oct. 3.—Henry Ford II all but confirms the forecast of some months’ standing that a new variety of car will be produced in the post-war period, a cheap model and perhaps a light one. Other big companies have been studying the question but have said nothing yet. Ford Motor's small car on its drawing boards follows Model A lines, - Definitely in such a group will-be the Crosley of Richmond, Ind, and the Willys-Overland jeep, and possibly American Bantam, of Butler, Pa., and Henry Kaiser, Lockheed and Consolidated, all of California. Consolidated’s would be a member of the Liberator line, a brand which is to be spread over a variety of post-war products. Two great arguments for a really cheapened car exist which did not before the war. The first is the prospective increase of 25 per cent or so in the price of the car of 1942 quality. The other is the. great decline in the quantity and quality and the considerable rise in price of used cars which will be on the market when the war is over, "Market Cavities Seen For the man who didn’t want to pay the price of a new car before e war, there was a second-hand or third-hand market whose source of supply was the 29,500,000 passenger cars on the streets in 1941. Every car not headed for the junk yard was destined for this market. This season the potential supply is variously estimated down to 24,000,000, and decliniing at the rate of 10 junked cars a minute, Before new cars can come in at a rate to make up the retirements the number may be 20,000,000. Thus would many millions have been subtracted from the source of cars for the used market. The market will have great cavities in it. To provide enough transportation for anything like the old outlay of money would still call either for a car stripped of luxuries and constructed cheaply, or one small enough fo save a good deal of material, Predicts 150,000 Crosley Sales Powell Crosley Jr., has been saying that, in a 5-million or 6-million car year, there would be,a place for 150,000 of the type of small car he made before the war. Some authorities in Detroit think that if all possible cheap types were included, full-sized cars as well as miniatures, several million might be sold.
PRATT AND WHITNEY WALKOUT HALTED
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 3 (U.
“Hellcat” fighter planes was resumed today after a 24-hour stoppage when 8000 striking workers returned to the Pratt & Whitney plant at the ordér of the International Association of Machinists (A. F. of L). The walkout, when the company. rejected the union's demand that it discharge four foremen and one acting group |leader and reinstate a discharged {probationary employee, was ended | when I. A. M. officials obeyed the {order of the war labor board that |they halt the “illegal work stop-
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By ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff Correspondent : “HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 3. — The shotgun wedding of radio and motion pictures a few years back resulted in a marriage which no one happy.
Now, faced with the adoption of a
growing child named television, ra-|°
dio and motion pictures are straining at the halter harder than ever and there's even talk of a divorce. There's no doubt that Hollywood is viewing with alarm the fact that television is ready, will break commercially and nationally in the post-war world of tomorrow,
‘Guesting’ Discouraged Film studios look at television strictly as competition, and already
have widened the break with radio,|
with new regulations discouraging
the guest: starring practice. Radio}
executives see in new rules a direct attempt to “weaken the radio structure so that its position will not be too impregnable with the advent of television.” E Hollywood's radio regulations include a minimum cost of $3000 for film scripts, blacklisting of certain programs held to be of questionable value to film stars, and insistence on greater control of players and their radio material. Fears in Hollywood that television will injure motion pictures are ungrounded, according to the radio people. Take No Chances But Hollywood, as usual, is taking no chances just in case television does become. an entertainment Frankenstein» monster, Paramount has invested thousands of dollars in its own television company, other studios are tied in with television financially and will undoubtedly play along when the new medium becomes commercial. The present fight seems to be aaginst the radio networks, the studios preferring to
Television sets look much like those of Hollywood, with booms, microphones and large cameras focused on the actors. Film-makers view television as serious post-war competition.
control their own television companies if see-hear entertainment does sweep the country. After the war, television hopes to become a $3,000,000,000 industry, although even radio executives don’t expect it to reach full maturity before another five or six years, Television entertainment will fall into three categories—motion pictures, outside programs such as
sports and news events and live
A. A. F. Technicians Attend School in War Theater
By Science Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3—Thousands of army air force technicians!
are now in school in England to enable them to keep the big bombers
flying against Germany with never a letup caused by maintenance
troubles, the war department has announced. Training becomes obsolete as fast as airplanes. Each new plane or new piece of equipment requires highly trained technicians to keep it
STATE MOTOR TRUCK GROUP TO CONVENE
‘The 13th annual convention of the Indiana Motor Truck association will be held at the Claypool hotel Friday and Saturday, E. 8. Wheaton, president of the association has announced. Problems involving equipment, tires and manpower which are now confronting the motor carrier industry will be discussed at the convention. James E. Nicholas is general
'|chairman of the conference and
Irving J. Cooper is vice chairman.
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EASTERN WAR PLANT FREEZE IS URGED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (U.P) —A senate committee, calling the industrial development of the south and west the key to post-war prostoday urged congress
states after Germany’s defeat to prevent further
a | concentration of private industry in|Common—
those states. Chairman Pat McCarran (D. Nev.) declared that an increase of population in the east that would
4} come if the government plants were '* | permitted to be added to present
private industry would create “an|comm octopus that would blight the rest of the country and reduce the south
and west to misery.” The committee, which is investi-
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HOG MARKET STEADY HERE
9050 Porkers Are Re- . ceived; Trading Is Active At Stockyards.
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WHEAT CHAMPIONS TO MEET TONIGHT
Times Special
PRINCETON, Oct. 3.—The annual meeting of Southwestern Indiana's 10-Acre Wheat Champions will be held here tonight. Rudolph Hoef-
% ling of Vanderburg county is the s| NEW area champion.
Dr. Edward C, Elliott, president of
Va Purdue, 1 Pysdue, will deliver the principal
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14 Years.
1, 1930, and Jan. 1, 1944.
revealed
Jan. 1, 1044. Of these 10,879 or only 8.9 per cent were built between Jan.
Decline Shown Commenting on home building in 14 Indiana cities, the syndicate said that Indianapolis provided new homes in 1943 for 1232 persons, a decline of 4152 or 77.1 per cent from
“Indianapolis, with a population in 1940 of 386,972, ranked 66th in a list of 310 cities in the number of homes built during 1943,” the report said. “Volume built last year represented 2.8 per cent of the total residential construction for the 14-year period. Volume peak of 7528 came in 1941 while the low was in 1933 when only 188 persons were supplied with new housing.”
Expenditures Down
Holding 64th place in the 310 cities studied, Indianapolis houses erected last year were valued at $818,101, a decline of $3,164,028 or 79.5 per cent the 1942 level of $3,982,129. New homes expenditures in 1943 were $1,919,329 or 70.1 per cent less than the 1930 total of $2,737,430. Average per person: new residential cost in Indianapolis, according to the survey, Was $664.04, a decline of $75.58 or 10.2 per cent from the 1942 level of $739.62. The report showed the city’s per person new home cost in 1943 in 72d place in the list of the 310 cities. The cost peak of $127152 was reached in 1836 while the . low, $664.04, was hit in 1943. The 1943 average cost was 30.6 per cent below the 14-year average, the study
GRAIN PRIGES MIXED ON CHICAGO MARKET
CHICAGO, Oct. 3 (U. P.).—Grain futures displayed a narrowly mixed trend on the Board of Trade today. December and May wheat reflected the upturn in flour business yesterday, reported to be the best in several months. Other prices rallied by mid-session., At 11 a. m. wheat was up % to off 5% cent a bushel; corn up % to %: oats unchanged to up %; rye off % to up 2, and barley up %.
Security Trust Names Mattox |
Charles A. Mattox has been appointed assistant secretary by the board of directors of the : Security Trust Co, it was an.-
nounced today. Mr. Mattox has been connected with the
Mr. Mattox
ters in St. Louis. His experience in banking dates back to 1920 when he was identifiled with the banking business in English and New Albany, Ind. Mr Mattox will assume his duties on Oct. 5.
INDIANA TURKEY GROWERS TO MEET
LAFAYETTE, Ind., "Oct. 3 (U. P.). ~The problems of Indiana's expanding turkey growing industry will be discussed at the annual meeting of the Indiana State Turkey Growers association at Crawfordsville tomorrow. John Lunn, Purdue university extension poultryman, announced today. Lunn reported that Indiana's turkey production for 1944 was estimated at 600,000 or a 45 per cent
U.S, FACES NAZI 53
FOOD PROBLEM
Western Germany, Where Yanks Fight, Is Poorest
Producing Area.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (U. PA The U. 8. and Great Britain probably will have to ship relie! food into western Germany during the early period of military occupation
polis because Russia will take food from
surplus-producing areas of eastern
Hl sictapatad dovaiown. Aber of Tnianspolle i the eva cs su ty dati sn vl 0 oO of the city, a survey of the district for the With 169 out of about 1600 parcels in of the best things that can happen to the
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