Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1945 — Page 6
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WMC Director Lists Troublesome Points That May],
Face All Other Big Industrial Cities After Final Victory.
By S. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Correspondent
DETROIT, July 10.—There-are five highly eiplodive is 574
booby traps in the cut-back,
reconversion situation in the|®™
nation’s leading war production city. As enumerated by Edward L. Cushman, area war manpower ‘director, they are—without attempting to decide the order of their importance:
1. Jurisdictional questions ~this one may be licked though it T¥ best to keep one’s fingers crossed, 2. Seniority questions-—both among civilian workers and between them and returning service-
men, 3. Wages—the decreases in take-
rates remain uncut. 4. Supervision—worker resent - ment of employer attempts to eradicate loose, costly practices encouraged by wartime conditions. 5. Insecurity — a psychological factor that can breed its own troubles and that will add. to the menace of all of the others. To these, in Detroit and some other places, there probably must be added a sixth potential land mine—the race question,
Problems Are General
Look it over carefully. You may find that most of the
Detroit seeds of discord are present in your own community, ready to * produce plenty of trouble as cutbacks get heavy and as management and labor plan for their parts th the post-war civilian economy. The jurisdictional battle broke out here in May when the A. F. of L,, some of whose building tradesmen had been hired by contractors to work on plant revamping and expansion for imminent civilian. car manufacture, demanded that wherever A. F. of L. men built new plants A..F. of L. men should install the machinery. The C. I. O. dominates the automobile industry, and its maintenance men want to keep at work So the C. I. O. retorted that no A. F. of L. men must be used until all
available C. I. O. personnel have}
been utilized. The C. 1. O. also demanded that pay of its maintenance men be raised to the level paid A. F. of L. builders, who get more on the theory that their employment is less stable.
Solution Tried
A. P. of L. builders walked out June 14 on five projects at Dodge Truck, Chrysler and Plymouth for post-war plant construction totaling $4,500,000, because Chrysler would not meet their demands. Then more than 13,000 United Automobile Workers (C. I. O.) men struck briefly to enforce their counterclaims. There were walkouts in three Ford plants, three Budd plants and two Packard plants. At Packard only 1100 struck. but they were maintenance ‘men, and without them 21,000 others could not. work. At Ford only 1500 maintenance men struck, which made it impossible for about 14,500 others to keep on’ the job. Top-ranking union officers and " governmental- officials condemned the walkouts, and eventually a promising solution was found. In each area where there are C. I. O.A. P. of L. conflicts of interest a joint conimittee will arbitrate disputes; if it fails, a national joint committee will settle the argument.
Pay Shrinks
As overtime becomes increasingly less common, and as full-time returns to a general 40-hour week or less, pay envelopes are going to shrink even for those who. hold jobs right through reconversion: The U. A. W. contends that dread of layoffs and pay reductions combine with actual dismissals to account for the fact that retail sales in the automotive centers of Michigan dropped 25 per cent in one
JUNE PAYROLLS UP FROM. MAY
|State and City Employment,
.home income even though hourly
Figures Are Down.
Indiana employment declined but payrolls increased in June compared to May, Noble R. Shaw, Indiana employment security division director, said today. War contract cuts accounted for the decline, Mr. Shaw explained, while the increase resulted from more normal work weeks when compared to V-E day influences.
Indianapolis figures were consist-}:
ent with those of the state, showing an employment decline of 4 per cent and a payroll rise of 2.8 per cent. 605,744 on Jobs
Wage earners in all state manufacturing industries and eight groups of non-manufacturing industries were estimated at 605,744, a drop. of 20 per cent from May. Weekly payrolls of $26,523,005 were J per cent higher than May, Both durable and nondurable goods manufacturing. industries showed employment declines, Mr. Shaw's report said. Material shortages accounted for some of this reduction. The retail trades groups registered expected seasonal employment losses. All figures had declined in comparison to June, 1944.
TERRE HAUTE BUS
STRIKERS RETURN
TERRE HAUTE, July 10 (U. P.).!
—Operations on the Wabash Valley Coach Co. bus lines returned to normal today pending a labor dispute decision by the war labor board. Members of the Amalgamated Association of Motor Bus Drivers Local 1197 struck Thursday - after claiming that the company had not paid them for extra runs,
CANADIAN CROPS SEEN IMPROVED
Times Special QUEBEC, Canada, July 10.—Canadian crop prospects have improved in the prairie#rovinces and provinces of Quebec and Ontario, the Bank of Montreal's crop. report said today. Rains and warm weather are needed in. some sections, while in the maritime provinces excessive rain has slowed germination. General growth has been slow, but British Columbia's tree and small fruit crop prospects are repotted good.
The 5700 hogs received by the Indianapolis -stockyards today contin= ued to sell at the local ceiling of $14.80, the war food administration said, Cattle totaled 2075, and steers and heifers turned mostly fully steady. Vealéts gained 50 cents early, but
month; while on one day, July 1, the 20 branches of one bank cashed $300,000 in war bonds. Those who watch labor activities professionally have no doubt that, whatever the national officers—of unions may do, there will be a great deal of contract trouble over the desire of the worker to maintain his weekly earnings at wartime levels, This will appear in the guise of good old-fashioned wage-scale cons troversy, but in fact it will be one more of the reconversion headaches that the country must expect from now on.
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LOCAL ISSUES
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A Good and ehoice—
day in the Pacific area. crew checks the tail assembly of morning strike at Japan on July one of the 500-pound incendiaries fort raid.
War and preparations for war went right on during Independence Here a member of the 314th bombardment
|with a Swedish match trust.
a B-29 just back from an early 4th. Another crewman prepares to be carried on the next Super-
. ti THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES No Holiday for Men in Pacific
|MONOPOLY CHARGE
{which stated Diamond also “appar-
DENIED BY DIAMOND
NEW YORK, July. 10 (U. P.)— The Diamond Match Co. today denied charges by the house small business committee that-it “pretty well” controlled» the world match
market through, a cartel agreement J
“The company's denial followed publication of a committee report
ently” controls the British, Japanese and Russian markets and that the match industry is one of ‘the most highly monopolized in the U. S, Branding the charges as “false and insinuating” the company pointed out that the U. S, is a nonexporting company so far as matches are concerned because of the relative high cost of produc~ tion as a result of higher American wage and living scales,
MORE RAIL CARS—MAYBE
CHICAGO, July 10 (U. P.).—The Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. said today that a recent war
Tare Is Named By Accountants
Howard C. Greer, Kingan
. Co. vice president - and general a
manager, has been named to three-year -directorship of the National Association”, ot Cost Accouilt~ ants, it was announced today. Mr. Greer has been active in the Indianapolis chapter of the group. Other officers
elected in the Mr. Greer
mail vote are Frank Klein, HarWilliam A. D. Ross Mason Smith, Chicago, Arthur B. Gunall and Philip J. Warner, New York City, treas-
rison, N J. president; Blackie, Peoria, Ill, Fraser, Rome, N. Y, narson, Washington, D. C, vice presidents;
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B. &0,N. Y. C. PLANS
BALTIMORE, July 10 (U. P.).— [The nation’s largest Joint facility | coal and ore terminal will’ be built on Lake Erie by a corporation to
‘be formed and controlled by two of
‘the country's leading rallroads, it , was announced today. |* Roy B. White, president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and G. | Metzman, president of New York Central railroad, the two roads controlling the corporation, made the annouricement and estimated the cost at around $15,000,000. The terminal wil provide modern and readily accessible facilities for the “transshipment of coal and ore betweerl railroad cars and lake vessels. mouth of the Maumee river.
RAILROADS SET RECORD -
WASHINGTON, July 10 (U. P.) American’ railroads moved more
production board order permitting
Army Wants Plane Plants Kept Busy
WASHINGTON, July. 10 (U.P). —The army air forces wants to see government-owned aircraft plants used to the greatest extent by private industry after the war in order to maintain productive capacity, according to Maj. Gen. E. M. Powers, assistant chief of air staff for materiel] and services. He announced a proposed “stand-by” program inviting utili= zation. of the plants by private industry. Powers said it was worse than useless to stockpile airplanes as a war reserve. ‘What is wanted is reserve productive capacity, he said, but only as a last resort should such capacity be retained in the form of idle plants. “Our first preference, obviously, is to have them partially oper. ated by aircraft companies” Powers said. “Our second preference would be to have the facilities partially utilized by other types of manufacturing companies. If: no operators can be found, however, we must be prepared to maintain idle plants so that we can be adequately prepared for a rapid expansion on aircraft production in an emergency.”
WHEAT INSURANCE
ANDERSON, OPA TO°PLUGL LEAKS’
Hit Black Warkets Through Supply, Prices.
WASHINGTON, July 10 (U.P.).— The new secretary of agriculture, Clinton P. Anderson, is teaming up with the OPA to “plug up leaks that | give rise to the black market,” one | of his aids.sdid-today, Anderson, it was said, believes | that supply shortages and price in{equities are the “breeders” of |illegitimate trading, and intends B do something about both. In his first step toward relieve the meat shortage, Anderson announced yesterday the requirements | that small slaughterers must meet | to qualify for removal of quota restrictions and to ship non-federally inspected meat across state lines.
Works on Poultry
Lifting of slaughter quotas for | approved packers is expected to|= increase the nation’s meat supply. |= The packers, however, must give assurance that the meat will move) in legitimate channels and meet sanitary standards. They also must give assurances that they will ob-|= serve OPA regulations and supply | meat to government agencies. The new food boss is also moving
WILL BE SOLD SOON.
Wheat crop insurance for 1946
about Aug. 1, L. M. Vogler, state! AAA head, announced today.
Contracts must be signed by Sept. 15, and sales campaigns. in each county -will begin within three weeks, Vogler said. Premium payments will be the value of 12 bushels of wheat per acre for 75 per cent coverage or .4 of & bushel of wheat per acre for 50 per cent coverage. Payments will vary according to counties. The average yield of wheat in Indiana over a 10-year period was 16.6 bushels per acre, varying from 113 bushels in Crawford county to 20.4 bushels in Howard county. The Indiana average is about threé bushels above that for the entire country. A wider participation in the wheat ingurance program than ever before was expected this year. The peak was reached in 1943 when 37.472 growers Inpurey their crops.
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| procurement program. At present, the armed forces buy virtually their entire supply from a few concen{trated production areas in the East tand South. worked a Severe hardship on cities {dependent on these areas for their poultry. Anderson plans to spread pur-
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nation, moving into Midwestern and Western -production, it was said. In addition, heaviest government purchases will be made during the heaviest production season.
Wants Higher Ceilings The agriculture department also is seeking ceiling price increases on heavier weight chickens to encourage production, The proposal awaits the approval of Economic Stabilization Director William H. Davis. In his fight against inequities, Anderson hopes to aid legitimate packers and food handlers whose businesses have been “squeezed” by certain OPA regulations. For example, the spokesman said, the secretary is-working with OPA to correct a ceiling price inequity which threatened to put Newport, Minn., stockmen out of business. The price agency some months ago approved a 10-cent per 100-pound increase .in the hog ceiling for South St. Paul. The action diverted a large share of the hog ship-
ments which. normally would have
gone to nearby Newport. “As the result of conferences with OPA we expected this inequality to be eliminated,” Anderson’s assistant reported.
ATSC OFFICE HERE TO CLOSE JULY 15
Lt. Col. Roy Whisenhunt, regional representative of the air technical service command, announced today that the Indianapolis office of the ATSC would be closed July 15. Work on the Indianapolis regional office, which has handled army air forces war contracts for most of Indiana, all of Kentucky and part of Illinois, will be transferred. to others in the area, Whisenhunt said. The closing will save $250,000 a year, he said. The action will release about 100 civilian employees to other government offices and to private industry.
OPEN POLISH TELEGRAPH
NEW YORK, July 10 (U, P).Western Unfén Telegraph Co. announced today. the resumption of communications between this country and Poland.
U. S. STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, July 10 (U. P.).—Government expenses and receipts .for the current flscal year through July 7, compared with -a year me
This Last Year $ 1,198,916.622 8 2,041,467,000 1,423,433,122 753,797
Expenses War Spend, Recelp 46, Net Beficit 1,352,162,225 Cash Bal, 24,800,004,394 Work. Bal 24,037,044,863 Public Debt 260,709,940,366 Gold Reserve 20,213,287,084 21,133,114,671
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‘(Prices for plant delivery) y Al Ps hens, 25.9¢. Broilers, fryers and roosters -under Ibs, white and oarred Jaen, 30%ec ~All No. 2 poultry 40 less A OTd roosters 21.9¢.
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construction of new passenger trains might put some new railroad cars in service by the end of this year.
RT RR
SUMMER STORE HOURS Sat., 9:30 A. M. Mon. Thru Fri., 9:30 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Hot Weather Togs for the Small Fry!
SUN SUITS
Free Parking Just Across the Street
Colorful Summer Dresses
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Cool frocks for hot summer days—in as-" sorted styles you will find one and twopiece models. Spun rayon, rayon crepes, rayon sheers and seersuckers.
Sizes 9 to 15 12 to 20 18Y; to 24Y;
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wheat and grain during the first half of 1945 than in any other period in the nation’s history, according to the office of defense transportation,
Complete assortment of ' boys’ sun suits for play or dress, of cotton gabardine, seersucker or spun rayon. Sizes 1 to 6x.
outstanding as-
sortment of girls swim suits in many cute styles, assort-
materials and
to $3.00
Pinafores
$200
Colorful’
spun rayons cotton pinafores in blue and pink. Just the thing for hot weather, Sizes 6.
3 to
Toddlers’ Sheer Dresses
Dainty little dresses for young lady, size this low price—Mother, out several—
Star Store, Second Floor
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TUESDAY. JULY 10, 1045.
Meetings
Property Managers The property management. division of the Indianapolis Real Estate board will meet tomorrow at 12:45 p. m. at the board office.
Lions Club
“The Food Situation, Present and Future” will be discussed by William A. Coleman, salesmanager of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., at the Lions club meefing tomorrow noon at the Claypool hotel,
SEEKS AIR SERVICE FOR BRAZIL, CHILE
SANTIAGO, Chile, July 10 (U.P.). —Benito Riviero, representative of the Brazilian Southern Cross Air Line, yesterday began canversations with the Chilean National Air Line, seeking to establish connections bee tween those lines for services between Brazil and Chile. Riviero suggested co-ordination of itineraries, and adoption of ate tractive passenger and express tare iffs, to develop air commence between the two countries
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Rich rayon satin and multi-filament raye on crepes in tea rose with
V-top. Sizes 32 to 40.
lace ' trimmed
Pretty Lace-Trimmed
SUMMER
Hats and
Star Store Street Floor
$2. Men's Straws
00 and $2.50 Values
in the new braids, colors light dark, contrasting bands, snap
brims., Sizes 6% to 7%.
Clearance of Men's Reg. $5.00
Slack
Suits
$395
Broken sizes from 20 to 34 Slack Suits. Our ceiling price, $5.00 — for fine poplin cloth suits "in tan or brown. Come early, Short sleeves, In or out style.
large. Star Store, Street Floor
Men’s Slacks Men's Slacks $ 298
of fine Rivercrest cloth—in Sizes 30 to 42
neat stripes in tan and grey; also plain colors. only.
combed yarn
Men’s T Shirts wiz $700
of fine cotton grey. Sizes small, medium and
WOMEN'S SHOES—Oflering
“tinued numbers, odds and ends and brok--en sizes. Blacks, browns, white, two-tones,
0.P.A. Odd-Lot Release RATION-FREE WOMEN’S SHOES July 9th to 28th
all discon-
etc, ties, pumps and oxfords. All sizes in the group, but not in every style. Sizes _4t0 9. Reg. $2.98-83.95-54.95—25% off. Now $2.24, $2.96, $3.11. No Layaway—C. 0. D— ‘Phone or Mail Orders—
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