Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1946 — Page 10

Ménagement, Labor Argue Shortages

Whether Strikes or Material Cause Lag.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

DETROIT, Aug. 13—One year Detroit is limping. Management greatest industrial workers whose families need big pa

after the end of war with Japan and labor leaders in the nation’s

center are often at each other's throats, thousands of

ychecks are getting small ones,

Production lines are dragging and the output of nearly two million cars and trucks has been lost in a dismal ' shuffle.

The auto plants have more men on-their payrolls now than before the war yet output has been less than after world war L Strikes and materials shortages have bogged down assembly lines in most major plants, but which is the more serious factor is the issue which has management and labor leaders badly split. And it is the issue which helped scuttle Walter Reuther’s recent proposal to study industry’s ills at a joint manage-ment-labor conference. New Demands Threaten Rising living costs threaten to touch off a new round of demands for higher wages. These demands already have been made by the Chrysler local of the United Auto Workers’ union, and by the local at Ford's River Rouge plant. The UAW international board is meeting now to try to decide what should be done. Although automobile plants are advertising for additional manpower, the U. 8. employment service here lists more than 100,000 as unemployed. Close to this number have applied for unemployment compensation. In theory, such compensation is supposed to be paid to people only in times of stress when they cannot get jobs. When UAW President Reuther proposed his joint managementlabor conference to find a way of speeding production, only Studebaker, Willy-Overland and KaiserFrazer showed up. General Motors.

the basic strikes in steel, coal and copper production. UAW officials say some parts plants have not met the 18a cents an hours wage increase which has covered most of the industry since last winter, and that naturally this has caused strikes, Parts plant representatives reply that in plants where increases have been granted new strikes have been called in disputs over incentive payment plans or other issues. A UAW comeback is that the companies have so

unions cannot accept it. Some employers say the short work week forced by strikes and materials shortages is causing unrest among union members who at the same time are struggling against rising living costs. They say Mr. Reuther’'s recent actions were to show members he is trying to do something for them. The auto union is still big, but not the giant it was once. Membership has gone from a wartime top of about 1,200.000 down to under 700,000 today. It is in unhealthy shape financially, and running a current monthly operating deficit, leaders conceded recently, of something under $100,000 a month. So it goes, with management and labor leaders unable to find peace. General Motors is a million cars behind . schedule, Chrysler more than half million. “But some leaders saying readjustment was bound to be difficult. foresee quickening

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PETER EDSON NEA Staff Writer OAK RIDGE, Tenn. Aug. 13.— The Clinton laboratories, which began work in September, 1943, on a one-year experiment to determine the “know-how” of atomic bomb

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~OPA today was preparing its fifth —and possibly last—price increase on 1946 automobiles. It would restore to dealers their pre-war handling charges. Piled atop previous boosts, it was expected to lift ceilings 25 per cent above 1942 levels. The new increase—following a 7.3 per, cent average . price . rise approved by OPA yesterday—was expected to average 3 or 4 per cent. It is likely to add $30 to $50 to the cost of a low-priced car. The action is dictated by the new price control act, which also promted yesterday's boost. It gave prewar markups to dealers, who had been skipped by the first three increases which went to manufacturers. Average of 22.3 Per Cent Yesterday's increases ranged from $62 on a Chevrolet coupe to $322

abused the piecework system the|jo4n Javels by as little as $165 on a

production in the days ahead.

on a Cadillac Imperial sedan. It averaged $82 per car. With previous increases it brought prices above

Chevrolet Stylemaster and as much as $84€ on a series 75 Cadillac. OPA’s statisticians said’ the 1946 increases, through yesterday, added up to an average of 22.3 per cent. A four-door Ford Deluxe at the factory and minus taxes and handling charges, now costs $1068. In 1942 it brought $885. A Packard Super 8, under the same conditions, costs $2141. The same model in 1942 brought $1688. The exact amount of the proposed new boost was under discussion by OPA price experts and an industry advisory committee representing the car dealers, A decision was expected tonight or Wednesday.

BABY NAMED FOR BOAT BLOOMFIELD, Ind. Aug. 13 (U. P.).—Mrs. Mable Allen of Bloomfield today named her newly born daughter “Doris Lajunne” in honor of the boat which returned Mrs. Allen’s husband, Leslie, from overseas service with the army.

making and handling, have now developed into one of the most important scientific institutions in the country. : The intended temporary nature of the establishment is apparent on every hand. When the first newspaper men were taken into its holy of holies a féw days ago, they found wooden and galvanized fron buildings nearly everywhere. They were painted a neat gray with green trim. But the place still looked more like a construction camp or a mining town than a spotless laboratory. Instead of the white frock coats which the scientists wear in the advertising fllustrations, the Clinton technicians wore field shoes and coveralls, or just plain pants and shirts, To Open Sept. 1 A big born-like frame structure going up near the pilot plant pile and the “hot lab” is to house what has been nicknamed “Dr. E. P. Wigner's College of Nuclear Knowledge.” It will open about Sept. 1 with a select student body of 35— about half chemists, half physicists. All will be graduate scientists now employed by the leading industrial research organizations, or heads of science departments of leading universities. They will be coming to this somewhat bleak, barren and out of the way place to learn how to handle nuclear energy—atoms and isotopes that hold unknown secrets. In this un-campus-like campus will be one of the highest institutions of |e scientific learning in the world.

One of Original Five

Dr. Wigner, director of research | at the Clinton laboratories dean of this new college, was one; of the original quintet of Szilard, Fermi, Teller and Keisskopf—for-eign-born scientist refugees in America who saw the possibilities of atomic fission and persuaded President Roosevelt to launch a project to develop its war-time uses. Wigner is of medium height and

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Balcony view of a “hot lab”: One classroom for select student body of “College of Nuclear Knowledge” will be this furturistic-looking laboratory at Oak Ridge, where chemical extraction of radioactive species takes place.

will be used to drive a turbine!build a pilot plant for the huge which in turn will drive a standard | Hanford piles which made the ma-

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CORN AVAILABLE AT LOWER PRICE

Promise of Big New Yield ~ Brings Out Old Crop.

By L. B. SKEFFINGTON Written for NEA Service URBANA, Ill, Aug. 13~—The corn crop is “made” in Illinois and Indiana. ’ Rain in many sections this week, increasing potential yield of the new crop, has brought old corn to market at lower prices and December delivery futures also reflected sharp price drops. “You can go back home and tell | dairymen and poultrymen that they | can expect plenty of feed,” said L. A. Norton, head of the Agri cultural Economics Department at! the University of Illinois. Asked to conjecture on the probable price of corn in coming months, Norton said growers could expect to receive “around $1.25” per bushel at the farm. Old-crop corn has been moving in the neighborhood of $1.80.

Lower Price Range

G. L. Jordan, economist at the university, gave future prices an fven lower range. He said, “the January future price at $1.35 per bushel would not seemh to be too low, but serious collapse that would carry prices down to $1 is net anticipated.” These figures were in line with comments of a grain elevator operator at Secor. He thought the

price of corn might get down to laround $1.16.

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got low enough to make it worthe while. On every hand there is ample evidence that there will be plenty of feed at prices lower than today, Fay L. Matson, mammoth auetioneer find farm broker, said “yields are way ahead of last year, Dry weather can't hurt the crop now, with an inch of rain to the good.” » All the way from Iowa across Illi= nois to Indiana, we saw corn and soybeans green and lush. Dirt roads were muddy, and we pulled longrooted weeds from .corn fields and found no dry soil. ? On the basis of observation, and after talking with numerous growers, it seems that estimated corn yield for Illinois and Indiana is too low. Last year Illinois ave erage was 46.5 bushels per acre. July 1 this year Jt was placed at 51 and moved up to 54 bushels July 15. Indiana averaged 53 bushels last year and the estimate is the same this year. Corn in these states looks almost as good

as in Towa with a 61 bushel esti= mate.

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Indianapolis flour mills and grain elevalors are paying $1.87 per bushel for No. 1 red wheat (other grades on their merits): corn, No. 1 yellow shelled. $} 0 per bushel. and No. 2 ‘white shelled, $1.75: , testing 34 pounds or better, Tig per bushel :

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and Nash-Kelvinator said no thanks. Most of them told Mr. Reuther that strikes in supplier plants were the major cause of lagging production, and if he wished to see greater production he should do something to end strikes. " Lambasts Monopoly Control Mr. Reuther charged that a shortage of basic materials was the

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1941 ‘he married a New England | jem together, what keeps them staff. And it had the equipment | changing dollars.” school teacher. His regular job Isiq.on fying apart, scientists do not|to do the work of further research Plenty of Feed as professor at Princeton, but hely,,q hy they'd like to find out.|on atomic energy in its first ex-| Prof. R. C. Ashby, livestock spehas a year's l,ave of absence to| gp, , temporary” laboratory, perimental pile and “hot lab.” So [cialist at the State ‘university, said direct research for Monsanto|p, iit only to prepare the first ex-|today, instead of dismantling, it is he “is not even doing that” He Chemical at Clinton lab. perimental quantities of fissionable expanding. said the higher price of corn now He has a good “American” sense, aerial it's some job to learn how | Its force now numbers about 1500, | made feed too valuable to fatten

Hogs, Down $1, Bring $22.50 At Indianapolis Stockyards

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