Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1944 — Page 40

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By’ NAT A BARROWS +. Times Foreign Correspondent STOCKHOLM, Dec. 17.— Even if they drop in their tracks from of strength, German factory to turn out their quota of production for the Nazis’ badly battered war machine, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's appeal for more ammunition from America § has been matched by a 8 Nazi decree, in- © ; side Germany, ; demanding both Mr, ; Barrows increased production and decreased use of raw materials, It fs a flat edit with no “ifs” or “buts,” commanding all workers to intensify their output capacity. The new factory schedule alters the wage scale so that the worker gets paid only for “useful work accomplished,” and expressly warns the weak and sick they have got to hang on, somehow, and do what they can. " " ” THIS DECREE from Labor Minister Fritz Sauckel explains

the serious difficulties with which

the Nazi war 7 diatry is confront-

ed today, but it does not mean

that Nazi- influstry 1s already falling apart, 2 " Production has been seriously

hit by concentrated bombings against such priority targets as synthetic oil and airplane factories. Yet that fabulous group of five men behind the Speer war production ministry is still able to keep factory wheels geared to war requirements-—at least for the moment.

. 8 IT IS a ‘question how much longer War Production Minister Albert Speer, and his four all powerful colleagues on the Speer ministry's governing board, can keep up production needs. The saturation point in Nazi industry definitely has been reached. Heavy industry just beyond the western front is taking terrific punishment. And the number of available workers decreases after every bomb raid, The Nazis anticipated some of these problems’ long ago, as a briefcase alongside the body of that genius, Fritz Todt (killed in an airplane crash in February 1942), gave the outline for de veloping inside Germany an ine dustrial empire without contrast in history.

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IMPLEMENTING “rodt's ideas, the Germans have developed a five-man. group with . unpre- | “cedented control over industry, “This group” today runs, directly or indirectly, every German factory. Long ago it standardized machines and parts:-to make them completely interchangeable; long ago it developed a plan for labor

ly mobility so that factory workers

could be moved quickly from one district to another; long ago it fixed working ‘conditions so rigidly that employees were enslaved to benches and machines. ". But the genius of Todt, and the fantastic power of the Speer ministry war lords, could not overcome human fatigue, have increased the number of rest periods and they have tried

industrial efficiency has continued to drop nonetheless.

. - o ~ LONGER working hours and extreme simplification of methods have not shown satisfactory compensations. Efficiency has continued to drop. The basic causes for the declining efficiency are such that the Nazis are able to do little about them: 1. Drained-up reserves of for- | eign workers. e 2. Reduced incentive for good work and absence of competition, 3. The number of unskilled women employed under the com- | pulsory labor order, | 4. Longer working hours and the heavy strain from worry, bomber raids, fatigue and lack of recreation,

” o s THE SPEER ministry, ruling industry with absolute dictatorial powers, has dispersed factories far |

and wide throughout Germany,

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