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OFFICIAL WEEKLY BULLETIN OF THE OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
WASHINGTON. D. C.
SEPTEMBER 1. 1942
VOLUME 3. NUMBER 35
Freedom is theme as unions observe wartime Labor Day
Labor Day observances this year of more than ordinary scope and significance are scheduled for September 7.-
Organized labor has selected a slogan “Free Labor Will Win,’’ as the keynote of its observance of the day during wartime, and the Government through the War Production Board and the Office of War Information, has given its assistance to the labor unions in developing celebrations which will emphasize ways and means of winning the war.
The American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the railway brotherhoods have worked with an interdepartment committee set up by WPB, with membership from the labor organizations, the armed services and the war agencies. Special radio programs, meetings, posters and publications have been developed through this committee, and added material provided for the many celebrations sponsored locally by labor all over the country.
Agencies represented* on the interdepartment committee include besides the CIO and AFL, the OWI, the WPB, the Army, the Navy, and the Maritime Commission, the Treasury Department, the Office of Civilian Defense, the Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, and the Board of Economic Warfare. ♦
Labor freedom emphasized
“The labor movement, and labor’s freedom to organize and improve social and economic conditions, are high among the things we are fighting to preserve,”
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OPA announces plans for price ceiling on live hogs; cattle may be next
The OPA announced last week plans were being made to place a price ceiling on live hogs. 'Deputy Administrator J. K. Galbraith, who held meetings August 25 and the day before with representatives of livestock producers, also indicated that similar action in the near future was contemplated with reference to cattle prices.
To be worked out with producers
During the meetings Mr. Galbraith told the delegation that preparation of the ceilings would be worked*out in conjunction with representative groups of producers to be called in by the OPA and on completion would be submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture for his concurrence. The Deputy Administrator also outlined steps which are being taken to resolve problems which have arisen under the present wholesale meat price regulations. Forthcoming ceiling revisions will eliminate inequalities between regions and between different classes of buyers.
Steps to enforce grading
He stated that vigorous steps are being taken to enforce the grading provisions of the beef regulation. These provisions are designed to insure that the spread between the lower and higher grades of beef will approximate the relationships prevailing during the base period in March. Recently it has been charged that so-called up-grading by packers has had the effect of narrowing the difference between the higher and lower grades of beef and thus narrowing the advantage of the producer of heavier or higher quality stock.
Mr. Galbraith took occasion to assure the beef cattle producers that the OPA will take no steps which will have the effect of discouraging normal feeding and marketing of livestock. “While feeders must exercise normal caution and avoid paying high prices for feeders,” he stated, “the working out of ceilings will be undertaken in close consultation with producers and with a full and complete recognition of the market relationships that are involved. Wherever possible advance announcements of impending action will be made so that producers can make nec
essary adjustments. Producers may depend that anything in the nature of surprise action will be avoided. The strong demand for beef cattle that is in prospect means that the market will be more rather than less stable as compared with other years. Feeders who buy carefully may look forward to the coming year with confidence.”
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Food committee considers rationing meat by regions
The Food Requirements Committee last week continued its study of meat requirements of U. S. military forces, our allies, and the United States civilian population. The tentative conclusion was reached that approximately onefourth of the total United States meat supply will be required for military and Lend-Lease use.
The committee also considered what steps would be necessary to guarantee Army, Navy and Lend-Lease their requirements and to distribute the civilian supply equitably by regions and among individuals. The committee’s recommendations for action along these lines will be announced as soon as they are completed.
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Purchase of dehydrated meats marks beginning of program
The Department of Agriculture has announced its first purchase of dehydrated beef for United Nations’ fighting men and other wartime needs. An 80,-000-pound purchase is included in the July report on purchases by the Agricultural Marketing Administration for the allied nations and other requirements. Total purchase of all foodstuffs amounted to $137,900,000 during the month; more than $1,540,000,000 since the start of the program last year.
Department officials said the beef purchase marks the beginning of a meat dehydration program designed to increase capacity to 60,000,000 pounds annually by the end of October.
President sees meatless days for Americans
Americans «may be asked to observe one meatless day a week in order to save shipping needed to transport weapons of war to the fighting fronts, President Roosevelt told his press conference August 28. The President estimated that such a program would free 30 or 40 ships for hauling war necessities to the theaters of operations if meat for the United Nations could be shipped direct from the United States instead of from such distant places as South America, Australia and New Zealand. He conceded that this would mean less meat for civilians in the United States, since it would constitute a drain on our domestic meat supply, but said this could be overcome by asking our people to do without meat in their diets one day each week.
The President said the Government is studying the plan but did not indicate when such a program may be initiated.
To outline program
The President told the conference he probably will send an explanatory message to Congress on Labor Day, outlin- • ing his new anti-inflation program, following it with a radio address to the Nation that evening. He revealed that wage stabilization provisions incorporated in the program would be flexible and no attempt will be made to freeze wages and salaries at a fixed level. The President said he favored stabilization of the ratio between food prices and the cost of living.
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Agreement with Brazil assures U. S. needed vegetable oils
Provisions of purchase agreements recently concluded between Brazil and the United States for two vegetable oil-producing crops, castor beans and babassu kernels, were announced August 28.
Additional stocks of vitally needed vegetable oils are assured the United States under the agreements.
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On the Home Front
Last week’s big news, of course, was of action in the Solomons. It was really big news, too. We do not know the /ull story, as yet, but what we do know is enormously significant. In the Solomons the Japs were trying to regain lost ground and not, as in the past, to extend their conquests.
The Japanese sent a large naval force to the waters off these islands which flank Australia, and this force was pounded so successfully by our ships and planes that thirteen enemy vessels, including two aircraft carriers and a battleship, were damaged. Ashore, our troops still held their positions.
The Japs fared badly last week in China, too, where the indestructible Chinese, aided by American airmen, continued to gain along the strategic Nan-ching-Hanchow railroad.
Allies assume offensive
In Egypt, where more Americans have arrived to reinforce the British, Nazi General Rommel’s stalled army was kept busy by ground and air attack. In Russia, the Nazis continued their Caucasus advance, but on the front before Moscow Soviet forces themselves launched an offensive.
These are the important things, the spearheads of action and—what is more encouraging—offensive action. Nor are they far off things, either. There are no far off things these days when ‘ every village has a stake in what is going on at the ends of the earth.
“The fight at home”
These battles at the ends of the earth are linked closely to the fight at home, were we not fighting here at home there could be no offensive action anywhere at all. All the elements which make up wartime America—the struggle for raw materials, the fight for more and better production, the deprivations of today and the greater deprivations of tomorrow—all these elements contribute to and make possible the gains we must make overseas.
We must be on guard all the time lest we lose ground on one or another sector of the home front and thus let down our fighting men. Last week the point of greatest danger on the home front seemed to be in the sector of prices. We have built some road blocks and tank traps against the fantastic but powerful machine which the experts call Inflation
and which fights for our enemies. In the wake of inflation marches a fifth column of phony dollars. Inflation destroys all our normal values, and so Increases the cost of living and the cost of fighting a war that it might of Itself accomplish a nation’s defeat.
The road blocks and the traps we have built to halt the advance of inflation take the form of maximum prices which may
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be charged for the things we must have. Overalls and towels, blankets and cotton goods, storm doors and sashes, fire and snow shovels, room heaters, saw handles, toys, games, winter gloves, wool sweaters, ear muffs, and heavy shoes—these and hundreds of other articles will cost no more than they did last March. But there are wide gaps in our protective lines, farm prices and wage scales and corporate profits are such gaps and through these gaps infiation rolls steadily closer. Our surplus buying power still is mounting, while the amount of goods available to match that buying power shrinks steadily. If living costs are not to rise as in previous wars, farmers will have to take less, workers will have to give up the idea of unnecessary wage increases, and business profits must be cut.
Sacrifices necessary
As we put more and more raw materials into the tools of war we must expect to get along with what we have or do without. Last week the needs of war brought these changes to the life of kitchen, shop, store, street and office: with rubber goods already scarce, the War Production Board tightened restrictions on the use of elastic thread and yarn. No steel wire is available for new coat hangers, and OPA told cleaners that they may charge a deposit fee against their return. Paper dress patterns for homemade dresses now may be no larger than ready-made garments. Cattle h&ir, the
best material for mattresses in damp climates, now will go to the boys who fight in steaming jungles. There’ll be no more veneer made from white oak lumber and all grades and types of softwood lumber soon will be unavailable to the civilians. Civilians may not even rent new typewriters now. Foodstuffs vanish from the shelves; dried fruits take up little space in cargo boats, canned sardines are needed for army rations.
Users of fuel oil in the East will join ’ buyers of gasoline in a broad program to save these liquids, a program brought about by the shipping shortage. And the tankers sunk off our eastern coast have drawn into their vortex consumers of fuel oil and gasoline from Maine to Texas, from North Dakota to Louisiana. Regulations (designed to free 5,000 to 7,000 tank cars for fuel oil service on the East Coast will halt tank car gasoline shipments throughout 20 States. In total war, what touches one of us touches all of us—one way or another.
This principle applies both to the individual citizen and to our great pools of manpower. All young and physically fit men face the possibility of being called by Selective Service, which last week warned that they must be replaced in industry by women, older men, and those whose military usefulness is slight. But the production of raw materials also is pressing. A basic problem is to keep men at work, all the time, and at work which most directly contributes to our fighting punch. Absenteeism—the 2-day layoff for that fishing trip—definitely sabotages the war effort. Right now, when we need every ounce of copper we can get, we’re faced with a serious shortage of copper miners . . .
Total mobilization
To mobilization of manpower and womanpower we are about to add mobilization of our youth and of our children. The National Institute on Education last week was studying how best to use all the students in the country, from elementary grades through college . . . The need for a better distribution of manpower is matched in importance by the need for scrap to feed the plants and furnaces. A sizable contribution continues to come from auto graveyards which it was announced last week have turned up 1,633,369 tons of salvaged metals in the past 4 months.
Concentration of production — the pooling of an industry’s resources—is being studied by a committee of WPB. “Utility models” of civilian products would replace a variety of types freeing production facilities for war work.
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War Production Drive demonstrates
real meaning of American freedom
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Labor Day under the New Order
BY MICHAEL W. STRAUS
Chief, War Production Drive Headquarters
I know of no more convincing proof of the potentialities of this Labor Day slogan—“Free Labor Will Win”—than the War Production Drive.
The freedom in which labor lives in this country is epitomized by the labormanagement committees in our war plants, mines, and collieries.
The cornerstone of the Wai’ Production Drive is labor-management committees.
When the War Production Drive was inaugurated just 6 months ago in response to the President’s call for increases to give us planes, tanks, guns, and ships this year, it was decided that production could reach the peak only with the full cooperation of free labor and free management. The principle of freedom is fundamental in the drive. Development of the plan was left to committees in the plants without musts and must-nots.
All committees voluntary
The single exception was the requirement that the committees be voluntary labor-management committees. It was agreed from the start that War Production Drive headquarters would not recognize purely management committees or purely labor committees.
Management and labor sat down at the conference table for the sole business of winning the war.
A thousand petty squabbles were forgotten. The job ahead was to win the war. Management understood that. Labor understood that.
New plans and new programs were developed. Ideas came from both sides of the table. Better yet, ideas came from deep within the plants themselves.
More short-cuts were evolved. More ideas on turning out better weapons were put into action. Plans to save precious material were adopted.
Production went ahead. Output rose. Gains from 5 percent to 100 percent and even more have been reported to War Production Drive headquarters. Freè labor showed it knew freedom was worth working for.
As we know, production has not yet reached the rate necessary to win the war. But production is increasing.
" We have faith that production will continue to increase.
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Freedom is Unions’ Labor Day theme
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Elmer Davis, OWI Director, said August 30. “It is notable that only the Axis countries deny Tabor unions the right to exist.
“We should all remember, on Labor Day and other days, that the first thing Hitler did after he gained supreme power vras to smash all German labor unions.”
WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson has asked war industry workers and war plants to arrange their observances to carry on continuous operation of critical industries, plants, and mines, without preventing observance of the day. Shipyards, mines and some other industries are expected to carry on with noon-hour observances, while some plants will be able to rearrange their schedules to provide a holiday. Labor already this year has responded to Mr. Nelson’s request to give a full day’s war work on New Year’s, Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day, and Independence Day.
Liberty ships launched
Six Liberty Ships, named after six heroes of the American labor movement, including Samuel Gompers, Andrew Furuseth, Peter J. McGuire, James Duncan, John Mitchell, and John W. Brown, will be launched on Labor Day with labor leaders taking part in the ceremonies.
The War Production Board is sending out as a part of its War Production Drive a new poster keyed to the occasion, and bearing the slogan chosen by labor “Free Labor Will Win.” It depicts a brawny ship-welder standing in a determined pose before an American flag.
Labor’s role in war
Forty to fifty national radio programs, including many privately-sponsored
shows as well as the Government programs, will devote part or all of their programs to labor’s part in the war, from September 3 through September 7.
Radio participation will include a broadcast from an internatidnal observance of the day at El Paso, Tex., on the Mexican border, with United States and Mexican labor leaders and officials taking part.
The El Paso celebration will be under the direct auspices of the Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso labor movements, but civic and military authorities of both nations will lend their assistance. Mexican soldiers and labor unionists will join with United States soldiers and labor unionists in a morning parade through both cities, following a meeting of labor leaders of both countries on one of the international bridges. The celebration will end in the Mexican-American manner with dancing and music in the streets of the two cities. Banners and other displays will bear the slogan “Americans All for Victory—Mexico-U. S. A. Free Labor Will Win.”
Many celebrations planned
Other major celebrations arranged by the labor unions, in which Government officials will participate, include those at Cleveland, where WPB Chairman Nelson and A. E. Whitney, President of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, will speak; Philadelphia, Bridgeport, Conn., and Kansas City, Mo.
AFL President William Green and Paul V. McNutt, War Manpower-Commission Chairman, will speak at an AFL rally at Omaha,~Nebr.
CIO President Philip Murray will speak at a CIO meeting in New Kensington. Pa., near his home.
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Union representatives meet with Nelson to discuss worker’s role in war production
Representatives of 20 metal-fabricating Afi and CIO unJons August 23-24 met with WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson and other high officials of WPB to discuss ways of utilizing workers’ ideas in war production, and to find means of overcoming one of America’s most serious war production problems—shortages of materials.
“I have always believed that the war effort in which this country is engaged vitally needs Labor’s active help and participation,” Mr. Nelson told the meeting.
“I believe the effort would fail if we lacked that help. I am not talking about Labor’s mere support—that can be taken for granted—but about real, concrete help.
“We need ideas here—and we need men. All I ask is that the ideas and the men be good ones that will help us to win the war. I don’t care whether they come from management, from labor or from some other source. If they’re good we’ll use them.”
Many problems discussed
At the 2-day conference, problems facing labor, management and the Nation because of present material shortages were discussed, together with proposals for integrating organized labor more fully in the war production program. Specifically discussed was a plan to give organized labor greater participation in the formulation of War Production Policy.
In welcoming the union representatives, William L. Batt, vice chairman of WPB, urged that all discussions be “frank and forthright.”
“This is a tremendously huge and complicated effort in which the efforts of all the people are necessary if we win the war,” he said.
Robert Watt, representing William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and James P. Carey, representing Philip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, both expressed the conviction that labor must have a larger part to play in the formulation of war production policies.
Robert R. Nathan, chairman of WPB’s Planning Committee, traced the development of the war production program from the beginning of the defense effort to the present time;
Pointing out that the war production program was a Government program,
and that no suggestion coming from any group could be carried out in toto without considering all the relevant factors, Mr. Nelson asked the union representatives to submit specific proposals for overcoming shortages of materials and bringing organized labor more fully into the war program. He invited them to appoint a small subcommittee to discuss these proposals with him early this week.
Union representatives said that the Labor Policy Committee, consisting of three AFL and three CIO officials, would be the committee to discuss these proposals with Mr. Nelson.
Production program outlined
A joint statement by AFL-CIO representatives, outlining a program for perfecting- the war production program and making possible the attainment of labor’s maximum production goals, was submitted to Mr. Nelson. This statement will form the basis for the discussions to be held between Mr. Nelson and the union representatives this week.
Eight steps for perfecting the war production program were suggested as follows:
1.	A procurement and subcontracting policy which would make possible maximum use of all available facilities and manpower and provide the full utilization of small plants.
2.	All-out expansion in the production of critical materials, including the completion of existing expansion programs and maximizing the productivity of existing facilities.
3.	The balancing of military requirements and the scheduling and control of the production and assembly of component items.
4.	Conservation of critical materials through the revision of military specifications and the elimination of nonessential military and civilian uses of such materials.
5.	Substitution of a streamlined, all-out scrap collection program for existing half-way measures.
6.	Speedy utilization of skills of workers unemployed as a result of unavoidable shutdowns and provision of adequate compensation to sustain the unemployed workers and conserve their productive ability.
7.	Labor-management production committees in all war plants and a Nationwide war production drive under the direction of actual representatives of labor
EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK
Mary Anderson, Director of the Women’s Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor, August 24 called the panel recommendation to the National War Labor Board in the General Motors case, requiring the same wage rate for women as men when doing the same work, a victory for women workers and for advocates of fair-wage policies.
“This provision is a significant milestone in the Women’s Bureau quarter -of-a-century struggle for the principle of equal pay for equal work, and millions of women should profit from it,” Miss Anderson declared.
“It is a much-needed safeguard to prevent the undermining effect of wage differentials in the whole wage fabric in this country. At no time can we tolerate a double wage standard—one set of rates for men and a lower set for women—and certainly not in the present crucial period, nor in the difficult days following the war.”
and management within the Labor Production Division of WPB.
8.	A wage stabilization program designed to achieve uninterrupted maximum production and the smooth flow of manpower into areas and industries most essential to the war effort.
Labor plan proposed
The program also included four specific proposals by the union representatives for bringing organized labor more fully into the war production program, as follows:
1.	A War Production Board with direct and effective representation of the Nation’s organized.workers in the Board’s membership.
2.	A Production Planning and Coordination Board with authority to plan, coordinate, and integrate all phases of the war production program with direct representation of organized labor.-
3.	Representative joint policy committees of labor, management, and Government in each of the branches and divisions of the War Production Board established to assure realistic formulation and speedy and effective execution of the War Production Board’s plàns and policies in the various industries.
4.	Elimination of overlapping jurisdiction and conflicting functions of the several Government agencies responsible for war production and integration in the Labor Production Division of the War Production Board of procedures related to labor policy in war production.
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Labor Day takes on new significance as U. S. workers battle tyranny, confident “Free Labor Will Win”
Labor Day, as celebrated in the United States, is unique among holidays. It is typically American, both in its inception and its manner of observance. The idea of setting apart a day for emphasizing the dignity of labor and stressing its place in our national life was born in the mind of J. P. McGuire, one of the famous dreamers and doers of the labor movement, back in the Nineteenth Century, who wrote of this day:
“Pagan feasts and Christian observances have come down to us through the long ages. But it was reserved for this country, and for the American people, to give birth to Labor Day. In this they honor the toilers of the earth, and pay homage to those who from rude nature have delved and carved all the beauty we behold.”
First Labor Day parade
McGuire, then an official of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and later to become a vice president of the American Federation of Labor, sold his idea to the Central Labor Union of New York City in May, 1882. The union proceeded, without the sanction of government officials or the community at large, to celebrate “Labor Day.”
The first Labor Day parade was held in New York City on the afternoon of September 5, 1882. The “neat and well-dressed men” who marched in the parade carried banners on which appeared such slogans as “All Men Are Born Alike and Equal” and “Liberty and Union”
These slogans were strangely prophetic of the slogan which labor has selected to symbolize its fight for freedom in this crucial war year: “FREE LABOR WILL WIN”.
Idea spreads
After this initial celebration, the idea of a national observance of Labor Day grew and spread to other cities. Workers representing all nationalities and all crafts and skills took part in the parades. In the second parade, held in New York in 1883, 10,000 workers took part. Thé next year, 20,000 marched in the parade, while 10 times that number lined the streets and cheered. Unions vied with one another in developing original and colorful floats and stunts. Printers» bricklayers, butchers—men representing all types of employment—participated.
The second division of the parade was headed by an organization of Negro workers.
Meeting in Chicago in October, 1884, the fourth annual convention of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada adopted a resolution asking that the first Monday in September be set apart as national Labor Day.
Day now observed nationally
In 1887, after several States had set aside this date as Labor Day, President Grover Cleveland signed an act making Labor Day a holiday for all federal employes. it was first celebrated in Washington as a national holiday in 1894.
Labor Day is now a legal holiday in all the States and territories, either by legislative enactment or, as in Wisconsin and
Wyoming, through proclamation of the governor.
Following the lead of the United States, most of the free countries of the world now celebrate a day set apart to honor labor.
Labor faces grim challenge
Celebration of Labor Day this year has a peculiar significance, because the rights of free men are threatened everywhere. The laboring men of America realize that if the Axis should win, the cause of labor would suffer more than that of any other group. So, these soldiers of production are fighting as they have never fought before to assure Victory for the United Nations, confident that this is a fight between free labor and slave labor, and that in the end “free labor will win.”
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at.t, THE BOMBS dropped on London in the last war could be carried in one flight by 7 of today’s heavy bombers.
Six new Liberty ships, named for labor leaders, to go down the ways on Labor Day
America’s shipbuilders, engaged in the greatest merchant ship construction program of all time, will observe Labor Day by launching six Liberty ships, named after heroes of organized labor, the Maritime Commission, announced August 27.
Four on West Coast, two in East
All of the 60 shipyards, which are rushing to turn out 2,300 new ships by the end of 1943, will be open for work on Labor Day, Rear Admiral H. L. Vickery, vice chairman of the Maritime Commission, said. Each yard will hold a brief ceremony to mark labor’s contribution to the war effort.
Each one of the six new Liberty ships will be named after prominent Labor leaders who have made vital contributions toward the cause of labor. With four ships to go down the ways on the West Coast and two in the East, a coast-to-coast radio broadcast over the Mutual network will link the launching ceremonies. ■
The names of the vessels and the yards at which they will be launched are as follows:
Samuel Gompers, California Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington, Calif.; Andrew
Furuseth, Richmond Shipyard No. 1, Richmond, Calif.; Peter J. McGuire, Richmond Shipyard No. 2, Richmond, Calif.; James Duncan, Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Portland, Ore.; John Mitchell, Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Md.; John W. Brown, Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Md.
On the West Coast, John Frey, president of the Metal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor, will speak at launching ceremonies of the Samuel Gompers at California Shipbuilding. Immediately following his address the broadcast will be switched to the Bethlehem-Fairfield yard at Baltimore, where John Green, president of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America (CIO) will speak at the launching of the John Mitchell and the John W. Brown.
Brief biographies
SAMUEL GOMPERS was one of the founders Of the American FeÜSratiön of Labor, and America's first great labor leader, devoted a lifetime to the cause. Under his leadership in. 1906, the AFL inaugurated a nonpartisan campaign to secure necessary legislation assuring the rights of labor and promoting the interests and welfare of the working people. Up until the time of his death in 1924, Mr.
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Famous radio commentators to tell people war facts in OWI-sponsored campaign
The Office of War Information August 27 announced a special radio campaign designed to Inform the American people of the facts of the war effort of the United Nations.
The campaign—described as the most important ever attempted thus far by the United States Government through the medium of radio—will begin September 14 and continue through October 26.
Stations will be furnished with 43 transcribed one-minute spot announcements, featuring such famous news commentators as: H. V. Kaltenborn, William Shirer, Gabriel Heatter, Walter Winchell, Raymond Clapper, John Gunther, John W. Vandercook, Earl Godwin, Lowell Thomas, Raymond Gram Swing, Pearl Buck.
Transcriptions will feature war effort facts, in concise announcements, on fourteen of the major United Nations.
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Gompers had been head of the AFL for over 35 years.
ANDREW FURUSETH came to the United States from Norway In 1880 and for many years was a sailor. Recognized as an authority on the merchant marine, Mr. Furuseth fought the cause of the merchant seamen through the halls of Congress and in public offices for many years. He was president for many years of the International Seamen’s Union and was secretary of the Sailor’s Union of the Pacific.
PErEi* J. McGUIRE was originator of Labor Day, and founder of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. He joined a labor union in 1872 and from that time forward took an active interest in the trade union movement. He was secretary of the American Federation of Labor when it was founded, and was elected second vice president in 1889.
JAMES DUNCAN was president of the Granite Cutters’ International Association of America, and first vice president of the AFL since 1894. A granite cutter and carver by trade, Mr. Duncan was also the author of "Labor Phases,” and other books on labor.
JOHN MITCHELL who went to work in the mines at the age of 13, was'identified with miners’ unions most of his life. His chief connection began in 1885 at which time he affiliated himself with the National Trades Assembly No. 135- Knights of Labor. He later joined the United-Mine Workers of America and was elected its president in 1899. He was re-elected at every convention until his death in 1919.
JOHN W. BROWN was active in both the Carpenter’s Union and later the United Mines workers, and the organizer in 1935 of Local No. 4 of the Industrial Organization of Marine and Shipbuilding workers of America. Until his death In 1941, he was honorary member of the general »executive board of that group.
War agencies schedule tool and die wage hearing in Detroit September 8
The War Production Board, the National War Labor Board, and the War Manpower Commission in a jpint statement August 26 announced that a conference would be held in Detroit, September 8, between labor, management, and the Government on methods of employment and extension to the rest of the tool and die industry in the Detroit area of the WLB’s decision on the four wage cases now pending before it.
WLB to determine four wage cases
Paul R. Porter, head of the wage stabilization branch of the WPB, will be chairman of the conference and will act as spokesman for the three agencies. The War Labor Board will be represented by John A. Willard, industrial management expert with the firm of Bigelow, Kent and Willard, Boston, who has been specially appointed by the War Labor Board for this task because of his technical knowledge of the industry.
The WLB will also provide as assistants, several labor and management advisers to be appointed soon.
The War Manpower Commission will be represented by Fowler V. Harper, deputy commission chairman, and Brigadier General Frank J. McSherry, director of operations.
Approximately 700 shops and the following three unions will be represented at the conference: United Automobile Workers of America, CIO; the Society of Tool and Die Craftsmen, independent; and the Mechanics Educational Society of America, independent. Official invitations will be issued soon to all interested parties.
Following the conclusion of the Detroit conference, the WLB will make a final determination of the wage cases now pending before it, which cover General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, and the Automotive Tool and Die Manufacturing Association. The other tool and die em-ployers or unions in the area desiring to present evidence on the wage issue will be allowed to do so. The WLB’s wage determination shall become effective not later than August 11.
Apprentice training for war industries centered in twelve regions
Toward more effective integration of its activities into the war effort on regional, State, and local levels, the Apprentice-Training Service of thè Federal Security Agency has reorganized its field offices into12 regions, William F. Patterson, Chief of the Apprentice-Training Service, announced August 27.
This move not only will make for smoother working relations with other labor supply and training agencies but will also permit more specific utilization of existing apprenticeship facilities and personnel in rendering urgent service to key war industries, Mr. Patterson said.
Regions defined
States which will be included in each region and headquarters cities:
Region One: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, with regional office at Boston.
Region Two: New York, with regional office at New York City.
Region Three: Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, with regional office at Philadelphia.
Region Four: Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, with the regional office location to be announced.
Region Five: Michigan, Ohio, and Kentucky, with regional office at Cleveland.
Region Six: Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana, with regional office at Chicago.
Region Seven: Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida, with regional office either at Birmingham or Atlanta.
Region Eight: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa, with regional office at Minneapolis.
Region Nine: Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, with regional office at Kansas City.
Region Ten: New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana, with regional office at Austin or Dallas.
Region Eleven: Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona, with regional office at Denver.
Region Twelve: California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, with regional office at San Francisco.
Apprentice-Training Service supervisors for the regions will be announced later.
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SOME 2,800 freight-car loads of materials, enough for a train more than 25 miles long, were required to build a single midwestern bomber plant.
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Board denies maintenance clause to strikers; “equalizes” steel wage
The War Labor Board last week cracked down on wartime strikes by denying a maintenance of membership clause to a union which had violated labor’s no-strike pledge by calling a 5-day strike at two New England plants. The Board also granted United Steelworkers at five subsidiaries of the United States Steel Corporation the same wage increase that was granted a month ago to employees of “Little Steel.”
Membership maintenance refused
A maintenance of membership clause was denied to the Chemical Workers Union, AFL, because the union called a 5-day strike in July of the 700 employees at the plants of the Monsanto Chemical Co. and the New England Alcohol Co., at Everett, Mass. The Board’s decision was unanimous.	w
“The peaceful procedures for settling labor disputes,” Wayne L. Morse, public member, said in writing the opinion for the Board, “referred to by the President in the Executive order creating the National War Labor Board rest upon good faith. There is no substitute for good faith. The War Labor Board cannot afford in this case to set .a precedent whereby a union is granted union maintenance protection by the Board in the very face of a record which shows that the union violated its no-strike pledge. Hence, the granting of union security to this union must at least be postponed until such time as this union demonstrates that it has adopted a change of attitude in regard to the use of the strike weapon during the period of this war.”
The strike was called July 15 and was terminated July 20, following certification of the case to the Board. The only issue in-dispute was the union’s request for a union shop and the check-off, though the union had indicated that a maintenance of membership clause would be acceptable.
Dean Morse said that the union Was fully aware of its obligations under the no-strike agreement, since it had passed a resolution December 18, 1941, saying that it would not let anything interfere with or interrupt production during the War.
Furthermore, Dean Morse stated, the evidence before the panel clearly shows
that the strike was “specifically recommended by the union’s leaders and places the responsibility for calling the strike upon those leaders.”
Dean Morse quoted from the Board’s opinion in the Norma-Hoffman case in which it was stated that the Board must ascertain to its satisfaction that the union is a responsible organization before granting a maintenance of membership clause. In the Norma-Hoffman case, a maintenance of membership clause was granted to the UERMWA (CIO).
“The important point for all concerned to remember,” Dean Morse said, “is that when labor agreed to forfeit its right to strike for the duration of the war the Government provided it with an orderly and impartial tribunal to settle its disputes with industry. So long as the National War Labor Board functions, there is neither need nor justification for strikes. Certainly it must be clear to everyone that the War Labor Board as an agency of the Federal Government
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and acting under Executive Order should not and will not be swayed by economic pressure brought to bear by either management or labor . . .
“It is with regret,” Dean Morse also said in his opinion, “that the National War Labor Board denies union maintenance in this case because the Board is convinced that a maintenance of membership provision in most cases acts as a stijnulus to production and provides a union with needed and deserved protection in consideration of its pledge not to strike.”
Ironing out “inequalities”
The Board last week said it would adjust only “major inequalities” in ordering the Norma-Hoffman Bearings Corporation, Stamford, Conn., to increase hourly and piece work rates of its 1,260 employees 7% percent retroactive to February 24.
In his opinion, Dean Morse pointed out that between January 1, 1941, and May 1942 the workers had received an increase of 9 percent in their wage rates and were, therefore, entitled to an additional 6 percent under the cost of living factor in the Board’s wage stabilization program. He said that the additional percent was granted to “remove the glaring wage inequalities found to exist in the plant.” He explained that wage studies had shown that the wages of this plant were 10 percent below the average for the same Industry in the local area and 20 percent below the average for the bearing industry nationally. Dean Morse stated further:
After reviewing these figures, the Board was convinced that the wage recommendations of the panel were fair and reasonable in that a 6 percent cost-of-living increase, combined with al% percent further increase, would as far as is practicable remove the glaring inequalities found to exist in the plant. It is obvious that this Board could not attempt to remove completely all wage inequalities. It would be an impossible task to adjust wage rate structures in the cases which come bfefore the Board to such a degree of equality as to eliminate all inequities. It is only in respect to major inequalities that the Board hopes to be able to make wage adjustments.
Wages equalized in steel industry
The 250,000 employees of the five steel subsidiaries of the United States Steel Corporation were granted last week the same 5%-cent hourly increase which had been granted the workers in Little Steel, and the WLB made this increase retroactive to February 15 in order to maintain the same wage relationship between the major producing companies which has
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existed in the steel industry for nearly a quarter of a century.
The Board’s order also included the same daily minimum wage guarantee, maintenance of membership and checkoff provisions contained in the Little Steel decision issued by the Board July 16. The Board reached its decision by a unanimous vote on the basic wage increase and the daily minimum wage guarantee, and by an 8 to 4 vote, the employer members dissenting, on the retroactive feature of the wage increase and on the union security provisions.
Ten thousand truck drivers in eight midwestern States, who went out on strike August 21, returned to work 8 days later, after receiving a stern warning from the WLB. The Board’s telegram to the strikers said in part:
The Board issues this final warning, that if the strike in which your members are now engaged is not immediately terminated and the questions in dispute submitted to the panel that it will take immediate action to terminate your defiance of your Government. Furthermore if the strike is not immediately ended the Board may refuse to recognize as valid any settlement reached between locals of your organization and individual employers affected by the Board’s award. You are requested to advise immediately what steps you are taking toward ending the strike.
Voluntary industry-wide stabilization of employer-employee relations is being sought by the War Labor Board fdr the Douglas fir industry of Washington and Oregon. Wayne L. Morse, public member of the Board, left last week for the Northwest for a series of conferences with lumber and sawmill operators and with officials of the two unions in the industry— the International Woodworkers of America, CIO, and the Lumber and Sawmill Workers, AFL. Dean Morse will try to arrange a voluntary industry-wide stabilization agreement, to cover about 75,000 workers in the area. His conferences will be limited to a discussion of the labor problems involved in the several lumber ca^es from that area now pending before the Board.
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Liaison officials named to work
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with labor groups
Appointment of three OPA officials to act as liaison men between OPA and the three principal labor organizations of the country was announced August 27 by Price Administrator Henderson.
The appointees are:
John T. Burke of New York, to act as liaison between OPA and the AFL; John W. Edelman of Philadelphia, liaison officer between OPA and the CIO; Glenn R. Atkinson of Covington, Ky., liaison officer between OPA and the Railroad Brotherhoods.
Control tightened on elastic fabrics to assure supplies for military
Restrictions on the sale, distribution, and use of elastic fabric, rubber yarn, and elastic thread are tightened further by amendments to Conservation Orders M-124 and M-174, announced August 27 by the Director General for Operations.
The orders prohibit the processing of any elastic fabric, rubber yarn, or elastic thread except to fill orders or contracts with the Army, Navy, or specified Government agencies, or for use in a limited list of essential health and Industrial articles.
In addition, manufacturers, knitters, weavers, jobbers, and dealers are required to file detailed reports of their inventories of elastic fabric, rubber yarn, and elastic thread. Information obtained from these reports will be used to determine the extent to which the manufacture of essential civilian articles will be permitted.
Until WPB has compiled this information, the orders permit the use of elastic fabric, rubber yarn, and elastic thread in a reduced list of essential health and industrial articles, for a period of 2 weeks only. Beginning September 9, the manufacture of thé items is prohibited, un-
less permission to manufacture such items is< granted by WPB upon specific application.
The list follows:
Industrial inhalators, respirators, hose masks, gas masks, goggles and shoes, surgical stockings, artificial limbs, surgical elastic bandage for joints.
Effective immediately, the orders prohibit the use of elastic fabric, rubber yarn, or elastic thread in a list of essential health and industrial articles which were allowed by the original orders. The articles affected by this prohibition are:
Industrial belting and flexible metallic hose; repair cords and webs; edging for baby pants; supports for abdomen, back, and breast; sanitary belts; men’s athletic supporters.
Under Order M-174 as now amended (elastic fabric), stocks of all elastic fabric up to 6 inches in width in the hands of manufacturers and jobbers are frozen. The order applies to all knitted, woven, or braided elastic containing bare rubber core or covered rubber thread in any quality or in any condition whatsoever. Any elastic fabric which on June 20 had been packaged in the customary retail form is exempt.
Men’s, boys’ clothing
Men’s and boys’ tailored clothing coming within the scope of Maximum Price Regulation No. 177 includes only garments of the types specifically listed in the regulation and the list of types is expanded, according to the terms of Amendment No. 1 announced August 27 by the OPA.
At the same time, the amendment, effective August 31, excludes from the “tailored clothing” regulation garnients which are made from all-cotton corduroys, denims, coverts, jeans, drills, cot-tonades, whipcords, moleskins, poplins and twills because men’s and boys’ garments made from these cloths are priced at certain levels by other regulations.
Listed types expanded
Certain of the 'listed types are now expanded to include the following specified garments:
Uniforms are included in the term “suits”;
Tailored breeches are now expressly grouped with long pants;
Coat-type blouses are included with coats;
Capes are included with topcoats’ and overcoats;
Ceremonial and religious vestments not included in the specifically listed types are set up in a separate classification.
Manufacture of woolen robes
The manufacture of woolen lounging robes for men and boys is prohibited in an order, L-130.
Manufacturers may use woolen fabrics they owned or had in their possession on the date of issuance of the order but when that is gone they may not use cloth containing any wool in men’s and boys’ robes, bathrobes, or beachcoats.
No such garment may be made with cuffs or with more than one pocket. The order contains maximum measurements, which range from 47 to 52 inches in length in men’s sizes and from 26 to 48 inches in boys’ sizes, and from 57 to 69 inches in sweep (circumference) in men’s sizes and from 38 to 58 inches in boys’ sizes. A robe may not be sold with another garment at a unit price.
Exempted from the restrictions of the order are the following:
1.	Infants’ and toddlers’ sizes 1-3;	,
2.	Robes for persons of abnormal size (only the measurement restrictions are lifted);
3.	Theatrical costumes;
4.	Garments for the Army, Navy, or Maritime Commission;
5.	Robes made in foreign countries and received in United States customs prior to October 1, 1942.

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WAR PRODUCTION ...
WPB assumes priorities control
of materials assigned to Army and Navy
Authority to assign preference ratings to individual Army and Navy contracts will be exercised after September 7 by War Production Board district offices instead of by the procurement and con
tracting officers of the armed services, in accordance with a letter from WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson to Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, Under Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, and Ferdinand Eberstadt, chairman of the Army and Navy Munitions Board.
In-order to exercise tighter control over the assignment of preference ratings, and to separate that function from the job of expediting particular parts of the war program, WPB will immediately send priority specialists to the various district offices with authority to issue preference rating certificates on the basis of approved directives u^on recommendation by Army and Navy officers.
Heretofore, preference ratings have been assigned to military orders in the field by individual procurement and contracting officers on the basis of broad directives prepared by ANMB with WPB approval. There has been no careful accounting of the quantities of materials to which ratings were assigned in this way.
Mr. Nelson explained that the new procedure is a step toward a much stricter system of handling the flow of materials to guarantee the most efficient
Ark-La power line serves new aluminum plant
Power to the big new aluminum plant of the Government at Lake Catherine, Ark., was turned on August 21, the Department of Agriculture announced, over the 195-mile line of the Ark-La Electric ^Cooperative from Grand River Dam in Oklahoma.
The Ark-La line, built by an Association of Arkansas and Louisiana electric cooperatives, was financed and supervised by the Rural Electrification Administration under directives and approvals of the War Production Board, the Fed
eral Power Commission, and the Defense Plant Corporation as a necessary service for production of essential war materials.
possible use of “every ounce of scarce material and every critical subassembly.” It is in line with the recently announced fourth quarter -materials control program.
New aluminum reduction plant in Northwest goes into operation
The fifth aluminum reduction plant in the Pacific Northwest made possible by the huge Bonneville-Grand Coulee power system has gone into preliminary operation.
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Delivery of manufactured gas to new industrial and domestic consumers restricted
Delivery of manufactured (artificial) gas to new industrial and domestic consumers was restricted by the WPB August 25 in an order (L-174) designed to cope with gas shortages expected this winter. The oil shortage is having substantial effects on demands for manufactured gas.
The order is a companion to order L-31, affecting natural and mixed gas, which was issued last winter.
After September 1
After September 1, no gas may be delivered to a nonresidential consumer for the operation of any gas-fired equipment which was not operated either by the consumer or on the same premises prior to that date, unless (a) the capacity of the new equipment is less than 150 cubic feet per hour, or (b) the new equipment replaces existing gas-fuel equipment of the same or greater capacity, or (c) the Director General for Operations of WPB grants approval for the delivery of gas for the new equipment.
After September 1 no gas may be delivered for space heating (such as heating a home, store, office, or factory) unless:
1.	The equipment was installed prior to September 1. If the equipment was converted from some other fuel to gas, the conversion must have been completed by September 1.
2.	The equipment replaces gas-fuel equipment of the same or greater capacity.
3.	In the case of a new building, deliveries may be made to gas equipment installed prior to November 15, 1942, provided such gas equipment was specified in the construction contract and the foundation of the structure was completed prior to September 1, 1942.
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White oak banned for veneer
Because of the urgent need for white oak lumber in construction of ships, the WPB, August 24, issued Conservation Order M-209, which prohibits the use of white oak logs in the manufacture of veneer.
The veneer industry normally takes the finest quality of white oak logs for the manufacture of residential and office furniture.
The order prohibits the manufacture of white oak veneer except for implements of war to be delivered to the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Maritime Commission, and War Shipping Administration.
Program for concentration of industries to be directed bv special committee
A Committee on Concentration of Production has been appointed within the War Production Board. Joseph L. Weiner, Deputy Director of the Office of Civilian Supply, is Chairman. Other members are: Lou Holland, Deputy Chairman of the War Production Board for Smaller War Plants; Amory Houghton, Director General for Operations, and Wendell Lund, Director of the Labor Production Division of WPB. Other members may be added later.
The committee will have general charge of the concentration program, determining, on information supplied by the Director General for Operations, which industries are to be concentrated and the arrangements to be made. Implementation of any concentration pro- — grams adopted will be under the direction of Mr. Houghton.
An informal committee has been engaged for some weeks in the study of the general subject of concentration and recently, on the invitation of Captain Oliver Lyttleton, British Minister of Production, Mr. Weiner dispatched Dr. Arthur R. Bums and Henry A. Dinegar.of the Office of Civilian Supply, to England to explore, In regard to concentration, the methods employed, the obstacles encountered, and the results obtained to date. Mr. Dinegar and Dr. Burns have now returned.
While it Was recognized, before their making the journey, that many factors, influencing both the necessity for concentration and its working in Britain, differ materially from those in this country, nevertheless the visit is considered to have been well worth while.
What the British call the “nominative” system is now preferred to the system under which an industry worked out for itself its scheme for concentration.
Concentration was started in March 1941 and many Important industries were satisfactorily concentrated by industries themselves under Board of Trade directives, but it is now felt that the responsibilities of the job are too great for an industry itself to undertake. The job is one that emphatically needs an umpire, and industry is insisting that the Government take the responsibility of determining which firms are to cease production and also the methods of preserving trademarks and goodwill, and providing for the physical care and maintenance of closed plants.
Complete standardization is frowned
upon. The economies to be achieved by simplification are fully recognized but preference is for “utility” models or types, produced within the limits prescribed by the Government, but leaving room for the exercise of individual ingenuity and skill. Utility models, particularly of shoes and clothing, have been found essential to any effective price control.
There has been no concentration of retail outlets but the number of these has been reduced considerably due to other causes. A goodly number has been destroyed by German bombs; some have closed because of the shortage of goods and labor. No new stores can be opened without license from the Board of Trade, and few applications have been granted.
On the other hand the larger stores in the principal cities have been compelled by the Minister of War Transport to pool their delivery services.
Cross hauling of food products has been eliminated to a great extent by zoning the country in respect to food distribution. For instance, fish cannot be freighted across the country from Hull to Plymouth, except the common varieties such as herring, a staple which has to be distributed from wherever the catch happens to be greatest.
Organized labor has been consulted at every stage in the development of all concentration programs and has been especially helpful in arranging the most effective transfer of labor released by closed plants into either nucleus plants or into war industry.
The following industries have been concentrated, or are in the process of concentration:
Bedding, bicycles, boots and shoes, braces (suspenders), carpets, corsets, cutlery and razor blades, fountain pens, gloves, hosiery (including finishing), jewelry, leather goods, linoleum, musical instruments, paper boxes, photography, pianos, pottery, sports goods, toilet preparations, toys, umbrellas, iron and steel, glazed tiles, woodworking, jute, silk, wool, cotton and rayon, paper mills, and fellmongery.
Dr. Burns and Mr. Dinegar conferred while in England with Captain Lyttleton, Hugh Dalton, President of the Board of Trade; John Maynard (now Lord) Keynes, the noted economist, Lord Beaverbrook and other personalities closely concerned with British war economy. .
They visited at length the cities of Birmingham and Manchester, the latter one of the chief centers of the cotton Industries.
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From simple priorities toward allocation:
WPB launches new program to tighten control on war materials
A new over-all program for controlling the flow of materials during the fourth quarter of this year to assure deliveries on schedule to vital war plants was announced August 25 by Amory Houghton, Director General for Operations.
Basis of the plan is an entirely new method of handling Production Requirements Plan applications to keep the supply of materials in balance with requirements of the most essential war industries.
Trend toward allocation
“Controls which have been delevoped during the last 8 months,” Mr. Houghton said, “are now being put into effect. For the first time, a reasonably complete supply and demand-picture of American industry is available. The War Production Board is taking another long step away from simple priorities toward allocation of materials in accordance with the needs of the war program.
“Further changes and adjustments will be necessary as long as the strategic situation keeps shifting—probably as long as the war lasts—but we are satisfied that the new system is the best one available under present circumstances, and that it will do the job.”
Basic changes involved
The Production Requirements Plan has been transformed into a method of obtaining a report on about 95 percent of war industry’s basic materials requirements. Use of this plan for the fourth quarter involves basic changes in the present set-up. The country’s leading manufacturers were brought under PRP in the third quarter—nearly 30,000 of them—but applications were not received in time for an analysis of over-all requirements. For the third quarter, therefore, preference ratings were assigned and delivery of materials authorized in accordance with the priority pattern of the orders on each producer’s books.
Despite these difficulties, it was possible during the third quarter to keep the authorizations for deliveries of carbon steel under PRP to within 5 or 10 percent of the amount of steel which was to be made available to PRP units in accordance with Requirements Committee determinations. This balance was unfortunately not fully reflected in the ship
ping schedules of the steel mills, since the summer schedules were largely made up before the majority of the third quarter PRP applications were processed.
Fourth quarter program
The program for the fourth quarter is greatly improved. It is divided into the following steps:
1.	The bulk of applications were received by the August 10 deadline. Nearly 23,000 fourth quarter applications have now been received.
2.	Each application is acknowledged as it is received. The applicant is notified of the serial number of his case and the branch to which it will be sent for processing.
3.	One copy of each application is sent to the Bureau of. the Census, where the indicated total materials requirements will be tabulated in terms of over 200 end product classifications.
4.	Another copy of the application is sent to the branch responsible for processing it, where a tabulation of materials requirements of all industries and companies assigned to that branch will be made.
5.	Both the Bureau of the Census and the various industry branch tabulations will be submitted to the Requirements Committee, together with reports on prospective supplies for the quarter from the materials branches. The Requirements Committee, under the chairmanship of J. S. Knowlaon, WPB vice chairman on Program Determination, includes representatives of the Army and Navy and other claimants for material.
After examination of the figures, the chairman of the Requirements Committee will determine the general pattern of materials distribution, both in terms of the 223 end products and in accordance with the companies assigned to the various branches, after setting aside a “kitty” for contingencies, readjustments, and for the use of smaller companies not under PRP.
6.	These determinations of the Requirements Committee will then go to the various industry branches, which will process the individual applications in accordance with the amounts of materials which may be authorized for each end product. At the same time, a strict check will be provided by the fact that each branch must keep the total authorizations to all of the companies whose applications it processes within the tabulation as approved by'the Requirements Committee.
In authorizing receipt of materials by each company within the established limits, and in the assignment of preference ratings, the branches will be under rigid instructions to give the same treatment to similar cases. However, the inventory position of each applicant and the pattern of preference ratings on the orders he will fill during the quarter will be given full consideration.
For the purpose of processing these applications, various units of the Army and Navy Munitions Board staff (such as ordnance, aircraft, etc.) will be treated exactly like industry branches, and they will process all applications from companies whose production is now 100 percent military. Theau-thorized quantities will be limited by the determinations of the Requirements Committee exactly like those of the industry branches.
7.	All processed applications, before being
sent back to the applicants as approved PRP otortificates, will be checked by a review find ^proval section,
8.	A copy of each PRP certificate authorizing receipt of scarce materials, or a report giving the same information, will be sent to each of the materials branches responsible for month-to-month allocations of the sca^-est materials. On the basis of these au-thorizations, and of individual reports as required by the various “M” orders, the materials branches will fit the authorized deliveries of materials into the delivery schedules of primary materials producers.
The materials branches will thus provide a further check of the operations of the system, and at the same time will be in a milch better position than before to handle individual allocations in proper relationship to the over-all picture.
9.	Fourth quarter applicants under PRP have been authorized by a recent amendment to Priorities Regulation No. 11 to place orders for fourth quarter delivery in anticipation of receiving their PRP certificates. As soon as the certificates are received, they must make any necessary adjustments in these purchase orders to bring them into line with the authorizations, in order to receive not more than 40 percent of the total authorized amount in October, an additional 30 percent in November, and the remainder in December.
Various degrees of preference ratings will have been assigned on the PRP certificates to make sure that materials producers will give primary consideration to orders having the greatest urgency in the war program, but virtually all companies which are authorized to receive materials under PRP for the fourth quarter should be assured of delivery without unreasonable delay, since the total amount of materials authorized will not exceed the available supply.
Subject to check
10.	Careful checks will be made, company by company, to see tiiat all materials authorized and received are actually put into production in the -fourth quarter, or used to maintain a practicable working minimum inventory.
These checks will also reveal whether the materials should properly be put into production in the next quarter to meet delivery dates essential to the war program. Authorizations may be withdrawn if it is found that the items being manufactured are not required until some time after completion, even though the items themselves may be of great military importance.
11.	Materials in the “kitty” will be delivered on preference ratings assigned by P orders, PD-1A and PD-3A certificates, project ratings, and on Interim applications under PRP. An account of such authorizations will also be kept so that preference ratings will not be assigned to a greater volume of materials than is available. This system is just being developed, and is not expected to work perfectly at first.
“The fourth quarter materials control system,” Mr. Houghton said, “will tend to counteract any inflation of preference ratings by restricting the amounts of materials authorized for the various essential military and nonmilitary purposes, regardless of the ratings which have been assigned.
“New high ratings may be used to expedite deliveries but they will not increase the quantities which any company is authorized to receive. An increase in the quantity authorized may be obtained only by submitting an interim application to WPB on Form PD-25F.”
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Machine tools output shows big increase
The value of 28,300 new machine tool units shipped during July was $113,600,-000, it was announced August 28 by WPB. During June 26,600 units valued at $111,100,000 were shipped.
Production of machine tools has reached a rate of more than $1,360,000,-000 a year. Last year the value of machine tools was about $771,400,000 and the present going rate represents an increase of more than 76 percent.
Compared with the same month of last year, thé July value of machine tools is an increase of 96 percent.
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Control of surplus inventories of farm equipment revoked
Because control over the disposal of surplus inventories is now provided by Priorities Regulation No. 13, the Director General for Operations August 27 revoked Supplementary Limitation Order L-26-b, which established similar control over surplus inventories of materials in the hands of manufacturers of farm machinery and equipment.
Restrictions contained in the order have been entirely superseded by Priorities Regulation No. 13 and its revocation will eliminate confusion among manufacturers.
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Auto graveyards yield 453,145 tons of scrap in July
Auto graveyards continue to make large inroads on our country’s scrap deficiency, according to July’s report of the Conservation Division’s Auto Graveyard Section.
The report, published August 24, credits the yards with a production of 434,448 tons of iron and steel scrap in July. This makes a total output of 1,633,-369 tons for the 4 months during which the Conservation Division’s Program to stimulate the flow of scrap from graveyards has been in existence. It averages 408,342 tons per month. Last year’s average was 150,000 tons a month.
In addition to metal, the auto graveyards in July salvaged 18,697 tons of scrap rubber. Inventories on July 31 showed 7,943 tons of scrap rubber in the yards.
Automobile battery production cut, discards must be turned in when buying
A program for production of the minimum number of storage batteries necessary for replacement in passenger cars, trucks, buses, and other vehicles during the remainder of this year was announced August 29 by the Director General for Operations. In the same order, battery users are required to turn in their old batteries for scrap when buying a replacement.
The order provides that during the period from July 1 to December 31, 1942, producers of batteries for replacement purposes may make only 90 percent of the number of replacement batteries sold by them during the same period in 1941, and only half of this allowed number may be manufactured before September 30.
Affecting approximately 200 producers, the order supersedes Supplementary Limitation Order L-4-b, and Limitation Order L-35.
Inventories limited
In addition to the restrictions on production and the standards for produc-
tion set up under the new order, producers are prohibited, after October 1, from having in inventory on the first day in any month a stock of replacement batteries in excess of the number of batteries sold by them during the 60-day period in 1941 corresponding to the 60-day period following the date of the inventory. Distributors are prohibited from holding more than a 60-day supply in any 1 month.
Must turn in used battery
The order contains a “turn-in” clause under which producers and distributors are prohibited, effective immediately, from selling or delivering a replacement or rebuilt battery to a consumer without receiving a used battery in return. Sales or deliveries may be made, however, provided the battery is not installed in the consumer’s vehicle at the time of the transaction and the consumer signs a certificate stating that within 30 days after the transaction he will dispose of his used battery through regular scrap channels.
Distributor who encouraged hoarding cosmetics rebuked
C. A. Willard, chief of the WPB toiletries and cosmetics branch, said August 26 that reports have come to his attention indicating that a few distributors of cosmetics have been encouraging their customers to hoard supplies.
Mr. Willard wrote as follows to one such distributor:
“It goes without saying that any such action on your part ... is contrary to the best interests of the war effort. . . . Certainly under any restrictive order we should all share and share alike.”
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WINNING SLOGAN
In a slogan contest conducted by the labor-management committee in the Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Co., Jeffersonville, Ind., Morgan Royce, 1118 South Second Street, Louisville, Ky., won with the following slogan:
Let’s make the Axis lose the game:
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No Blitz:
No Terrors:
Cooperating scrap dealers to receive WPB Merit Award
Each scrap dealer who is cooperating fully with the Conservation Division’s x National Salvage Program will receive from WPB a scrap Producer Merit Award, in the form of an emblem to be placed in his yard in recognition of the service he is rendering the war effort.
The emblem, 2% by 4 feet, made of weather-resisting duckine, bears the legend, “Cooperating With War Production Board—Scrap Producer—Scrap Metal Produced and Sold Last Month---------- Tons.”
The dealer’s eligibility for the award is determined by 2 gages; first, the extent to which he conforms to Conservation Division policies concerning the operation of scrap yards, and second, evidence that the tonnage deliveries from the yard are 33% percent in excess of • the yard’s monthly average for the first 6 months of 1942. Thus the award is only made where it is evident that the dealer is making an extra effort to supply critically needed scrap for war production.
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September 1, 1942
All types of softwood lumber placed under rigid control
Rigid controls on the distribution and use of all types and grades of softwood lumber, effective August 27, were announced August 22 by the WPB. These regulations are embodied in Conservation Order M-208, which replaces the temporary construction lumber “freeze” order, L-121.
Divided into four classes
The principal feature of the new order is the division of all purchase orders for softwood lumber into four classes, based on the relative essentiality of the use to the war and civilian economies.
These classes are as follóws:
Class 1.—orders for the most urgent needs, bearing preference ratings of AAA, AA-1, or A A—2.
Class 2.—orders bearing preference ratings of AA-2X or lower, but higher than A-l-a, including uses listed in “List A” attached to the cruder.
Class 3.—orders bearing preference ratings A-l-k through A-l-a, including uses listed in “List B” attached to the order.
Class 4.—orders bearing preference ratings lower than A-l-k, including those uses listed in “List C” attached to the order.
When an order bearing a preference rating is received by a producer or distributor, it will fall into one of these four classes. Thereafter, the rating on. the particular purchase order will be treated as though it were the highest rating in the class in which it falls. For instance, all orders in Class 2 will be treated as if they bore AA-2X ratings.
The preference ratings assigned to orders may be extended by persons receiving a properly indorsed purchase order in accordance with the terms of Priorities Regulations 3 and 12. So as to eliminate competitive rerating of orders, the M-208 regulations prohibit rerating of a preference-rated order once it is placed. Orders rated prior to September 1 may be rerated, however, provided the rerating is completed by September 17.
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Builders’ Hardware Manual contains new specifications
The WPB, August 21, issued a Builders’ Hardware Manual listing the size, kind, and quantity of builders’ hardware that may be used in certain types of construction.
The manual, dated July 15, supersedes builders’ hardware specifications previously issued by other Government agencies and comprises a set of maxima for the guidance of architects and builders.
PRIORITY ACTIONS ♦Through August 26
Subject	Ordej No.	Related form	Issued	Expiration date	Rating
Cattle tail hair: a. Effective Sept. 2, sale and delivery-of cattle tail hair restricted to the Armed Services. Cement, Portland: a. Provision of L-179 which prohibited	M-210			8-26-42		
	L-179 (amend. 1).		8-24-42		
exclusive allocation of storage space for Portland cement to any customer is postponed to Sept. 30. Cobalt: a. Cobalt used for ground coat frit limited,	M-39-b (amend.		8-21-42		
in any one quarter, to 35 percent of amount used in first 6 months of 1941. Coffee: a. Effective Sept. 1, coffee quotas cut 10	2). M-135-c (amend.		8-21-42		
percent. Cotton textiles for work apparel: a. Authorizes WPB to control cotton tex--	1. M-207			8-22-42		
tiles used in manufacture of work apparel. b.	Lists fabrics to which A-2 rating may be assigned for manufacture of mSn’s work clothing. c.	Lists fabrics to which A-2 ratings may be assigned for manufacture of work gloves. Cotton textiles for essential and surgical products: a. Assigns rating of A-2 to orders placed	M-207 (Sch. I)-—		8-22-42		A-2.
	M-207 (Sch. ID—		8-22-42		A-2.
	M-134 (as amend.		8-25-42		A-2.
for fabrics suitable for mfg. into industrial tape, surgical dressings and laminated phenolic products. b. Schedule I lists fabrics suitable for in-	8-25-42). M-134 (Sch. I)-			8-25-42		A-2.
dustrial cloth or tape. c. Schedule II lists fabrics suitable for	M-134 (Sch. II)			8-25-42		A-2.
surgical dressings. d. Schedule III lists fabrics suitable for	M-134 (Sch. Ill)--		8-25-42		A-2.
laminated phenolic products. Cutlery: a. Exempts orders for cutlery placed by War Shipping Administration and military orders by jobbers, wholesalers and other dealers. Electric fuses: a. Effective 15 days from issuance prohibits use of metal or its alloys to manufacturing parts for fuses. Effective 30 days from issuance prohibits assembly of fuses with copper parts other than parts carrying current. Gas (order curtailing consumption of manufactured gas): a. Effective Sept. 1, delivery of manufactured gas to new industrial and domestic consumers restricted. General inventory order (inventory restrictions exceptions): a. Silicate of soda added to lists exempted	L-140 (amend. 1)„		8-25-42		
	L-161		PD-1X			8-25-42		A-10.
	L-174.		PD-628			8-25-42		
	M-161 (amend. 6).		8-26-42		
from inventory restrictions of Prior. Reg. 1. Heat treating equipment: a. Authorizes WPB to establish production and delivery schedules of heat treating equipment when necessary. Imports of strategic materials: a. Responsibilities of banks in connection	M-211				8-22-42		
	M-63 (as amend.		8-25-42		
with imports under General Imports Order M-63, defined. b. Shearlings no longer exempt from	6-2-42) (amend. 4). M-63-b (amend. 1).		8-22-42		
terms of order. Effective immediately, no one may import shearlings without authorization by WPB. Kitchen, household and other miscellaneous articles: a. Makes it clear that manufacture of pails	L-30 (amend. D—		8-24-42		
and tubs designed for use in shipping and packing is not limited under Order L-30. Leather, sole: a. September quota of leather for civilian shoe repair set at 15 percent of production. Lumber, softwood: a. Rigid control placed on distribution and use of all types and grades of softwood lumber. Order replaces temporary construction lumber “freeze order," L-121. Railroad equipment: a. Makes it clear that car builders and suppliers can transfer surplus freight-car material to railroads. Rubber and balata and products of which rubber or balata is a component. a. WPB sets up specifications governing manufacture of camelback and capping stock. Revises specifications governing manufacture of tire compounds, tire and casings and tubes for passenger cars, trucks and agricultural implements.	M-80-b			8-26-42		
	M-208...			8-21-42		A^l-k, a. A A A, AA-1, AA-2.
	L-97-a-l (int. 1)...		8 26-42		
	M-15-b-l*(amend.		8-24-42		
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Subject	Order No.	Related, form	Issued	Expiration date	Rating
b. Effective Sept. 1, consumption of crude	M-15-b(as amend.	PD-330; 407;	8-25-42		
rubber, latex, reclaimed rubber, and scrap rubber in all civilian products permitted only by specific authorization. Consolidates original order and 13 amendments.	8-25-42).	500-b.			
c. Rubber sealed closures for glass containers: 1. Dried beans added to list of food products for which use of a rubber sealed closure is prohibited. Tools:	M-119 (amend. 2).		8-20-42		
a. Metal cutting band saw blades and hack saw blades: 1.	Sale and distribution limited to preference rating of A-9 or higher. Vitamin “A”:	E-7			8-22-42		A-9.
a. Permits additional 1,000 units per pound of Vitamin “A” units which can be incorporated in a pound of feed. White oak: a. WPB prohibits use of white oak logs in the manufacture of veneer. Manufacturers must report to WPB all white oak logs in excess of 50,000 board feet.	L-40 (as amend. 8-26-42). M-209		PD-631		8-26-42 8-24-42	—	
PRIORITIES REGULATIONS
Number	Subject	Issued
Prior. Reg. 11 (Exemption 2)		Exemption provides that a PRP unit is free to accept delivery of „ any material not included on Materials List No. 1 of fourth quarter application form, or of any material exempted from General Inventory Order, M-161,	.	8-20-42
SUSPENSION ORDERS
Company	Order No.	Violation	Penalty	Issued	Expira" tion date
Scully Steel Products Co., Chicago, Ill.	S-80	Charged with selling approximately 26 tons of carbon plate, alloy and stainless steel on unrated or lowrated orders, in violation of terms of Orders M-21-b and M-21-d.	Prohibits acceptance of any stainless steel by its Chicago and St. Paul, Minn., warehouses, for a period of two months.	8-24-42	10-27-42
J. E. Talbert, Chicago, Ill.	S-81-,	Charged with selling 22,000 pounds of copper tubing on unrated orders, in violation of order M-9-a.	Prohibited from dealing in or processing of copper for ' period of i year. Priority and allocation assistance withdrawn. ■	8-19-42'	8-22-43
Atlantic Electrical Supply Corporation, Richmond, Va.	S-82...	Illegal extension of preference orders; sale of copper wire and copper cable on unrated orders; and falsification of records. Violation of orders P-100, M—9-a.	For period of 3 months company denied priority assistance and no allocation-of scarce material shall be made to offending company.	8-19-42	11-20-42
Blue HilKA venue Service Stations, Inc., Hartford, Conn.	S-86—	Deliberate violation of Order L-70 by accepting delivery of more gasoline than his established quota.	For period of 4 months company is denied the right to receive any deliveries of motor fuel.	8-24-42	12-26-42
Herbert C. Huber, Dayton, Ohio.	S-87-	Charged with violation of “stop construction” order L-41, by beginning work on three houses subse-. quent to April 9, effective date of L-41.	Enjoined from completing three houses on which he began work. Specifically provided no application to resume construction will be granted. Denied all priority and allocation assistance for period of 4 months.	8-24-42	Until Revoked.
“Order Hank” simplifies copper buying
An “order blank,” known formally as Form PD-595,jnakes it easy for users of copper and copper base alloy products who hold the necessary preference ratings to purchase these products from owners of frozen, excess, or idle inventories. The blank was released August 26 by the WPB copper branch.
The copper recovery section of the copper branch, located at 200 Madison Avenue, New York City, has detailed inventories of millions of pounds of copper products, in the form of sheet, rod, tubing, wire, and shapes which can be sold to war plants. No metal can be sold except on a rating of A-l-i or higher.
New equipment for laundries, cleaners, out for duration
Operators of commercial laundry and dry-cleaning plants were told August 26, by N. G. Burleigh, chief of the services branch, in a statement of policy, that raw materials for production of new equipment will be impossible to obtain for the duration of the war.
The policy, drafted after exhaustive study of the materials situation by Orval A. Slater, chief of the personal services and laundry machinery section, was made public in an effort to inform the commercial laundry and dry-cleaning industries of the necessity for allocating existing machinery to essential users. Increased demands for this equipment have come from the armed services and from war plants.
Although he pointed out that no raw materials will be available for new laundry machinery, Mr. Burleigh said that if existing equipment is “judiciously allocated and carefully husbanded, there will be enough to go around.”
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Sales of cattle tail hair limited to military use
The sale and delivery of cattle tail hair is restricted to the Armed Services by a WPB Order, M-210, issued August 26. It becomes effective September 2.
The Navy alone needs more cattle tail hair for bunk mattresses than the domestic supply. Cattle tail hair mattresses are ideal for use under damp conditions because they do not mildew or remain damp.
Under the August 26 order, cattle tail hair may be used only to fill orders for the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, and the War Shipping Administration.
The order applies to cattle tail hair which has been clipped or otherwise removed from the tails or switches of cattle.
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Imports of shearlings banned
Shearlings are no longer exempt from the terms of the General Imports Order. Under Amendment No. 1 to M-63-b wool finer than 44’s remains exempt from the order until September 30, but the previous exemption as to shearlings is removed. As a result, effective immediately, no one may import shearlings without specific authorization by the WPB Director General for Operations.
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September 1, 1942
Allocation system set up to control rubber use in all civilian products.
Beginning September 1, consumption of crude rubber, latex, reclaimed rubber, and scrap rubber in all civilian products will be permitted only on specific allocations by the Director General for Operations, it was announced August 25 by the War Production Board.
This change from the previous system of rubber control, which permitted the consumption of rubber for many groups of products in accordance with average monthly consumption during a base period, is included in a revised Supplementary Order M-15-b. The revised order consolidates the original M-15-b and 13 amendments which had been issued since December 1941.
The previous M-15-b Order included two types of product-listings for which rubber and latex could be consumed. The first involved the use of a percentage formula based on previous consumption, while the second enumerated products for which a manufacturer was required to secure specific authorization. This latter type of control is now to be applied to the use of rubber in all civilian^ products.
Several products necessary to the war effort, but which were not permitted to be manufactured by the original order, have been added to the new M-15-b. These additions, which include compounds for laboratory testing and rubber life-saving suits, are based on ex-, perience gained in handling appeals.
Other changes
Among other important changes made by the revised regulations are the following:
1.	Instead of permitting the use of crude rubber, latex, reclaimed rubber, and scrap rubber in any products being made on war orders, the revised order will restrict the use of rubber for war orders, to specified products or classes of products.
This list is not yet complete, and for the time being, the order permits the manufacture of any product for war orders as in the past. As soon as the list is worked out by WPB and armed forces, it will be incorporated into the M-15-b regulations.
2.	The provision classifying as war orders purchases placed by foreign countries is omitted. Such purchases will not be considered war orders unless placed by an agency of the United States Government under the Lend-Lease Act.
3.	The processing of crude rubber, latex, reclaimed rubber, or scrap rubber to fill war orders is not permitted unless the resulting products are scheduled for delivery within 60 days from the date of processing under the terms of the purchase order placed with the processor.
4.	In order to prevent a waste of rubber, the splitting of camelback and capping stock into sizes which cannot be manufactured
under the provisions of the rubber specifications order (M-15-b-l) is prohibited.
5.	The delivery or acquisition of any products or materials known or believed to be manufactured in violation of the order is prohibited.
6.	To encourage the operation of reclaiming plants at full capacity in anticipation of heavy demands next year, the limitation on inventories is modified to permit reclaimers, as well as consumers, of reclaimed rubber, to stock pile reclaimed rubber.
7.	Restrictions on Imports are modified so that they apply only to products containing 10 percent or more rubber ,or Balata.
8.	For the convenience of all affected by the order, an Index of the permitted and grohibited products, and a table of contents ave been added.
9.	All persons who wish to consume crude rubber, latex, reclaimed rubber, or scrap rubber after October 1, 1942, are required to file an application on Form PD-407 with the Rubber and Rubber Products Branch not later than the tenth day of the preceding month. Authorizations for September will be issued as they have been in the past.
10.	Appeals from the terms of the order may fee filed with the Rubber and Rubber Products Branch on Form PD-500b.
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Copper use prohibited in making fuse parts
In order to save 1,200 tons of copper annually, the WPB has prohibited the use of the metal or its alloys to manufacture parts for fuses, other than current-carrying parts, effective 15 days from August 25.
The order, Limitation Order L-161, also prohibits the assembly of fuses with copper parts other than parts carrying electric current, effective 30 days from the same date.
Sales of fuses by manufacturers are restricted, effective 15 days from August 25, to sales to other manufacturers, or on A-10 or higher preference ratings. Adequate supplies are expected to be made available to civilian users of fuses, since distributors are permitted to obtain fuses and other electrical supplies through the use of Form PD-1X.
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Leather quota for shoe repairs
Tanners and converters are required to set aside 15 percent of their September manufacturers’ type sole" leather bend production for the repair of civilian shoes by Supplementary Order M-80-b, issued August 25 by the Director General for Operations. This is the same percentage as the August quota.
A-2 rating assigned industrial tape, surgical dressings
Adequate supplies of cotton fabrics for the manufacture of industrial cloth or tape, surgical dressing- and laminated phenolic products are expected to be made available as a result of action taken August 25 by the WPB.
Order M-134 has been amended, and three schedules issued which assign a preference rating of A-2 to orders placed for fabrics suitable for manufacture into industrial tape, surgical dressings, and laminated phenolic products.
Schedule I lists fabrics suitable for industrial cloth or tape. The fabrics are: osnaburgs, two constructions; sheetings, eight constructions; print cloths, five constructions; carded lawns, one construction; tubing, two constructions.
Schedule II lists fabrics suitable for surgical dressings. The fabrics are: sheetings, eight constructions; print cloth yarn fabrics, seveil constructions and any Class C print or tobacco cloth; four leaf twills, three constructions.
Schedule in lists fabrics suitable for laminated phenolic products. The fabrics are: drills, one construction; sheetings, six constructions; print cloths, six print cloths; lawns, one construction.
All three schedules assign an A-2 rating to the listed fabrics. The order restricts the use of fabrics obtained under its terms to the following: (a) For the manufacture of the. products listed in the schedules; (b) for sale to any person on an order bearing a rating of A-2 or higher; (c) to fill certified orders for such material to be used in filling orders for the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, or the War Shipping Administration.
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Pails, tubs for shipping exempt from limitation order
Manufacture of pails and tubs designed for use in shipping and packing is not limited under Limitation Order L-30. This is made clear by Amendment No. 7 to the order, issued August 25 by the Director General for Operations.
The purpose of the amendment is to eliminate confusion which arose from Amendment No. 3 to the order, issued on June 12, which contained a provision to encourage the manufacture of wooden pails and tubs. It was not the intent of the original order or Amendment No. 3 to restrict the use of critical materials in packing and shipping containers.
The amendment also removes from Order L-30 restrictions on the use of critical materials in fireplace grates and dampers. However, restrictions on the manufacture of fireplace equipment continue in effect under Conservation Order M-126 (iron and steel).
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Publishers warned to stock up on newsprint
Because many newspapers are apparently carrying only minimum stocks of newsprint, E. W. Palmer, deputy chief of the WPB printing and publishing branch, reminded publishers August 22 that the WPB order relaxing inventory restrictions on newsprint, paper, and paper products under Priorities Regulation No. 1 will expire September 30.
Mr. Palmer pointed out that publishers who have not taken advantage of the opportunity to acquire large stocks of newsprint during the off-peak transportation season may encounter difficulty in later months when the railroads will be faced with a heavy seasonal burden.
“A shortage of railroad facilities Would seriously disrupt the delivery of many of the nearly 6,000 cars of newsprint expected to be transported monthly during the last quarter of the year,” he said.
Mr. Palmer said that a survey showed that publishers’ stocks of newsprint on hand as of July 31 represented 67 days’ supply, and stocks in newsprint mills represented an additional 20 days’ supply.
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Cutlery restrictions relaxed
Exemptions from restrictions on tableware, pocket knives, scissors and other cutlery are broadened by Amendment No. 1 to General Limitation Order L-140, issued August 25 by the Director General for Operations.
The amendment exempts orders placed by the War Shipping Administration and military orders by jobbers, wholesalers, and other dealers.
However, the amendment makes it clear that the exemptions do not apply to cutlery purchased by post exchanges, ships’ storesvships’ service stores, dr commissaries for resale.
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Camelback specifications issued
Specifications governing the manufacture of camelback and capping stock were issued August 24 by the Director General for Operations in Amendment 14 to Order M-15-b-l, effective August 24.
The amendment also revises the specifications governing the manufacture of tire compounds, tires and casings, and tire tubes for passenger cars, trucks, and agricultural implements.
MORE VITAMIN A FOR CHICKENS
Liberalization of restrictions governing use of Vitamin A in feeds was announced by the Director General for Operations August 26 in a revision of Limitation Order L-40.
The order as amended April 10 placed a maximum of 1,000 on the number of Vitamin A units which could be incorporated in a pound of feed, except for turkey and poultry breeding feeds, which were allowed 2,000 units per pound.
The amended order announced August 26 permits an additional 1,000 units per pound in each category.
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Inventory restrictions on silicate of soda removed
Users of silicate of soda are permitted to build stocks without restriction by Amendment No. 6 to General Inventory Order M-161, the Director General for Operations announced August 25.
Silicate of soda, which is in relatively plentiful supply, is expected to enter its heavy shipping season in October and November. To remove undue burden on transportation facilities at that time, inventory restrictions are removed to permit users to build stocks at their plants, rather than have supplies accumulate in the hands of producers.
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Sales of new blades curbed
Sale and distribution of metal cutting band saw blades and hack saw blades will be limited to consumers with preference ratings of A-9 or higher, the WPB announced August 22. The order, E-7, became effective August 31, and excepts only hand-frame hack saw blades made of low-grade steel and stock in the hands of small retailers on August 31 when the total value of such stock is $50 or less.
The order applies to all purchase orders now on the books. It applies not only to manufacturers but also to all persons selling blades. It does not, however, apply to sales or deliveries among retailers, distributors, or manufacturers who are purchasing for resale and not for use.
Hack saw blades excepted were described as those not more than .025 inch thick and not more than 12 inches long containing no alloys.
Mining expert named to help speed production
Dr. Wilbur A. Nelson, Chief of the WPB mining branch, has been appointed special assistant to the deputy director general for industry operations, it was announced August 25 by A. I. Henderson^ the deputy director. Dr. Nelson will deal with production and related problems of mines, mills, and smelters.
To develop program
Dr. Nelson will develop a program to obtain maximum mining production. Among other things, he will:
1.	Act as a clearing house for solution of problems relating to prices of minerals, particularly as prices affect production.
2.	Handle tax matters as they affect mining production with the proper Government authorities, with a view to prevent impairment of mineral production because of taxation which may inhibit maximum mine operation.
3.	Develop a morale program to attack the broad problems of miner absenteeism.
4.	Handle development of access roads to all mines.
5.	Undertake any over-all problems of mine operations which are holding back production.
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Ratings raised on industrial equipment
The preference rating necessary to obtain certain types of general industrial equipment covered by Limitation Order L-123 is raised from A-9 or higher to A-l-c or higher, except for Army, Navy, and certain other exempted transactions, by Amendment No. 1, issued August 27 by-the Director General for Operations.
The new rating requirement, however, does not apply to the production and delivery, prior to October 1, of equipment to fill an order accepted prior to August 27 which has an A-9 or higher rating.
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Production schedules authorized for heat treating equipment
General Prefrence Order M-211 was issued August 22, authorizing the WPB to establish production and delivery schedules of heat treating equipment in such instances as may be necessary.
Where schedules are established by the WPB, they are to be maintained without regard to any preference ratings assigned to particular contracts, commitments or purchase orders.
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September 1, 1942
PRICE ADMINISTRATION ...
Top prices set on new low-alloy steels at warehouse and jobber level
Maximum delivered prices for less-than-carload quantity sales at the warehouse and jobber level of new low-alloy emergency steels developed to conserve molybdenum, nickel, and chrome were announced August 29 by the OPA.
The prices apply only to sales by warehouses, jobbers, and other resellers of Iron and steel products.
They are provided in Amendment No. 7 to Revised Price Schedule No. 49 on resale of iron and steel products, and become effective September 4.
Prices adjusted on some products
The amendment, besides providing ceiling prices for the new steels, makes revisions in prices of a number of iron and steel products, including pipe in Western States, and heavy gage boiler and pres-
sure tubes. The amendment also brings the schedule into conformity with Maximum Price Regulation No. 204 (Idle or Frozen Materials Sold Under Priorities Regulation No. 13 of the War Production Board).
The prices for the new low-alloy steels provided in Amendment No. 7 reflect approximately the same percentage markup over cost of material that is customary on other types of alloy steels handled by steel warehouses.
For the purpose of low-alloy steel pricing, basing point cities for hot rolled alloy steel are established as Bethlehem, Pa.; Buffalo, N. Y.; Canton, Ohio; Chicago, DI.; Massilon, Ohio; and Pittsburgh, Pa. Basing point cities for cold finished alloy steel are established as Buffalo, N. Y.; Chicago,DI.; Cleveland, Ohio; Gary, Ind.; and Pittsburgh, Pa.
U. S. and Mexico agree to price increase on silver imports
The Department of State and the OPA announced August 22 that, on the basis of discussions which have been conducted with the Mexican Government, the governments of Mexico and of the United States have agreed in principle to an increase in the price at which silver may be imported into the United States from 35% cents an ounce to 45 cents an ounce, f. o. b. New York or San Francisco, effective August 31.
An amendment to Maximum Price Regulation No. 198—Imports of Silver Bullion—will shortly be issued changing the maximum price at which silver bullion may be imported from any country Into the United States from 35% cents an ounce to 45 cents an ounce.
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Silver prices adjusted
Sellers of semifabricated silver products were authorized August 29, by OPA to pass on to their customers the increased costs resulting from use of newly mined domestic silver at 71.111 cents per ounce in place of imported silver at 35% cents per ounce.
Rent directors announced for 20 defense-rental areas
Area Rent Directors for 20 of the 39 defense-rental areas to be brought under Federal rent control on September 1 were announced August 28 by Price Administrator Henderson.
The 20 rental areas and the directors for each are announced as follows:
Dothan-Ozark, Ala., Charles Madison Copper; El Dorado, Ark., William B. Trimble; San Bernardino, Calif., Albert Harmon; Pensacola, Fla., Augustus Alston Fisher; Tampa, Fla., John L. Wright; Dixon, IU., Fremont M. Kaufman.
Quad Cities, Illinois-Iowa, Nic LeGrand; Des Moines, Iowa, Laverne M. Barlow; Hagerstown, Md., George Bohman; Eastern Mass., Essex County only, William H. McCarty; Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas, James M. Robertson; Pike, Missouri-Illinois, J. Overton Fry.
Elmira, N. Y., William M. Lande; Utica-Rome, N. Y., George Benas; Tulsa, Okla., Charles B. Carden; Allentown-Bethlehem, Pa., Herbert G. Buel; JMeadville-Titusville, Pa., George William Garvin; Chattanooga, Tenn., Krieger W. Henderson; Paris, Tenn., Paul Morgan; Madison, Wis., Frederick O. Leiser; New Orleans, La., Leon Verges.
Where directors have not been appointed before September 1, field representatives of OPA’s rent division will get the Federal rent control program under way.
Rent controlprotestants given time to file further evidence
Orders granting an extension of time to present further evidence in support of protests against Maximum Rent Regulations for Housing Accommodations other than Hotels and Rooming Houses have been issued, Price Administrator Henderson announced August 26.
Extensions of 30 days were granted protestants from the Mobile (Alá.) , Burlington (Iowa), and Puget Sound Defense-Rental Areas. The last-named takes in Seattle, Tacoma, and Bremerton, Wash.
Another protest to the regulation pertaining to the Puget Sound area was dismissed on the grounds that it was filed incorrectly, but leave was granted to refile the protest within 30 days.
In all four cases, the OPA asked the protestants to submit detailed statements of the cost of operation, maintenance, repairs, service rendered, and general estate taxes for recent years concerning the properties in the protests.
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Rent protest dismissed
Protest by the Hartford (Conn.) Chamber of Commerce against the maximum rent regulation for Housing Accommodations Other than Hotels and Rooming Houses for a portion of the Hartford-New Britain defense-rental area has been dismissed, the OPA announced August 22.
Dismissal was made on ground that the Hartford Chamber of Commerce could not be classified as either landlord or tenant as defined in Procedural Regulation No. 3, the OPA regulation setting forth the method for protest and amendment to maximum rent regulations for housing.
Rents in Nebraska defense area to be stabilized
Residential rents in the Sidney (Nebraska) Defense-Rental Area will be reduced and stabilized by Federal regulation on September 1, Price Administrator Henderson announced August 22. Rents in the area will be ordered cut back to levels prevailing on the maximum rent date of March 1,1942.
September 1, 1942
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Makers’ ceilings set on new
types of rubber footwear
Maximum manufacturer’s prices for new types of waterproof rubber footwear which the WPB will permit to be manufactured to take the place of other kinds with larger crude rubber content were announced August 25 by the OPA.
Amendment No. 2 to Maximum Price Regulations No. 132, which sets the prices for the new items at levels commensurate with others in the same schedule, also establishes the amounts that may be charged, over the regular ceiling levels, for rubber footwear constructed in such a way that its life can be prolonged by replacement of a stitched outsole.
The following maximum prices are established in Amendment No. 2, effective August 29:
CIVILIAN USE
Men’s short boot, 14" height_________$2.60
Boys’ 3 buckle cloth arctic—cashmer-
ette_________________________________ 2. 20
Boys' 3 buckle cloth arctic—Jersey.  2.00 Youths’ 3 buckle cloth arctic—cash-
merette______________________________ 2. 00
Youths’ 3 buckle cloth arctic—jersey 1.85 SEVERE OCCUPATIONAL USE
Men’s Stormking boot_________________ 4.45
Men’s Stormking hoot, steel toe______4.95 Men’s Short boot, neoprene veneer, par-
grip sole, steel toe_________________ 4.40
Men’s Stormking boot, neoprene ve-
neer, par-grip sole, steel toe_______ 5.95 Men’s Hip boot, neoprene veneer, par-
grip sole, steel toe_________________ 6.65
Men’s Rubber Work Shoe, neoprene ve-
neer, par-grip sole, steel toe________ 3.90
Maximum additional charges for waterproof rubber footwear made with a stitched replaceable outsole are:
Men’s________________________________$0.12
Boys’__________________________________ .	10
Youths’_______________________________   .	08
Women’s_______________________________    .	10
Misses’________________________________ .	08
Children’s____________________________   .	07
A further charge of 15 cents a pair may be made for men’s waterproof rubber footwear made with a stitched replaceable sole if hobnails and toe and heel cleats are added.
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Foster heads compliance branch
Appointment of Maxwell E. Foster, of Topsfield, Mass., as chief of the compliance branch of the enforcement division of the OPA was announced August 26 by Brunson MacChesney, assistant general counsel in charge of enforcement.
Mr. Foster, who has been regional enforcement attorney at OPA’s regional office in Boston since last February, will supervise development and execution of all compliance programs.
YULE GREENS EXEMPT
FROM GMPR
Trees, mistletoe, holly, ferns, plants and other greenstuffs used for Christmas decorations were exempted August 22, by the OPA from provisions of the general maximum price regulation. The exemption was contained in Amendment No. 23 to Supplementary Regulation 1 of the general maximum price regulation, effective August 27.
Establishment of celling prices for these Christmas decorations is not practicable, OPA pointed out, because of the highly seasonal nature of sales volume and the great variations in prices and values depending on the time and place where the sales take place.
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Coal resales in Canada exempt from U. S. price control
Resales of United States bituminous coal, delivered from the mine or adjunct preparation plant, by Canadian distributors for consumption in the Dominion of Canada August 24, were formally exempted from U. S. price control by Price Administrator Henderson.
This action was taken in Amendment No. 19 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 120 because sales of coal in Canada already are under governmental control there.
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Rental of new typewriters banned, others recalled
Price Administrator Henderson, August 25, announced a ban on the rental of new typewriters and used nonportable machines manufactured since January 1, 1935, and ordered the return by September 15 of typewriters manufactured subsequent to that date which are now on loan.
Persons eligible to purchase machines under existing regulations are not affected by the order.
The rental ban on new machines and the recall of recently manufactured typewriters, Mr. Henderson said, is to make available for purchase by thé Procurement Division of the Treasury a sufficient number of machines for Army, Navy, and Government use.
Sugar schedule adjusted to GMPR provisions
Several minor changes have been made to Revised Price Schedule No. 60 (Direct Consumption Sugars) to bring this schedule into closer conformity with administrative provisions of the general maximum price regulation, the OPA announced August 26. .
One section in Amendment No. 3, effective August 31, allows any person seeking relief from a maximum price set under this regulation—for which no provision is made elsewhere in the schedule— to present the special circumstances of. his case in an application for an order of adjustment. This provision is identical with Section 18 (c) of the general maximum price regulation.
Also incorporated in the regulation is the equivalent of Section 18 (b) of the general maximum price regulation, establishing the method for OPA adjustment of ceiling prices which are (1) abnormally low in relation to prices of competitors, (2) cause substantial hardship, and (3) can be adjusted without affecting the retail level.
Another provision, similar to that in the general regulation, permits a seller who is unable to determine his ceilings by prices prevailing during the base periods, October 6-11, 1941, or December 1-6, 1941, to apply to OPA for a method of establishing ceilings.
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DALLAS, TEX., has turned“over 2,000 pounds of defective scales to the scrap metal campaign.
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Kentucky, Tennessee to get sugar from Western processors
Acting to assure adequate sugar supplies for consumers in Tennessee and Kentucky, the OPA August 27 authorized eight Western beet processors and one West Coast cane refiner to distribute in those States, which ordinarily they do not serve.
The authorization carries with it an assurance to the refiners that Defense Supplies Corporation will reimburse them for the excess freight costs entailed.
This action was necessary, it was stated, because supplies of sugar in the hands of Gulf refiners who normally supply Tennessee and Kentucky are at present not adequate^ to meet this demand.
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September 1, 1942
New methods announced for setting top prices on women’s fur garments, hats added
Additional methods of establishing ceiling prices for women’s fur garments by retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers under conditions which originally were not specified in Maximum Price Regulation No. 178 were issued August 25 by Price Administrator Henderson.
At the same time the Administrator brought women’s fur hats under the pricing provisions of - the regulation •which determines maximums for such women’s fur garments as coats, jackets, capes, muffs, scarfs, and capes.
Reporting rules modified
Amendment No. 1 to the regulation, effective August 26, also calls upon manufacturers and wholesalers to supply their retailers with the text of certain important pricing provisions of the regulation. The original reporting provisions have been revoked and instead manufacturers are required to prepare before September 15, and thereafter to keep for the inspection of OPA, complete records of their ceiling prices, as well as other specified information.
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Cotton warehouses given alternative pricing formula
Cotton warehouses were authorized by Price Administrator Henderson August 25 to elect as their maximum prices either the schedule of rates prepared by the Government-owned Commodity Credit Corporation for 1942 loan cotton or the highest rate the individual warehouse charged to each class of purchaser last March.
Incorporation of the CCC rates in the price-ceiling formula was contained in Amendment No. 14 to Supplementary Regulation No. 14, effective August 25. Previously the general maximum-price regulation had placed a ceiling at March levels.
The schedule taken from CCC contracts follows:
Storage of cotton in warehouses operating compress facilities, 17% cents per bale per month for the first 6 months; 15 cents per bale per month thereafter;
Storage of cotton in warehouses not operating compress facilities, 20 cents per bale per month for the first 6 months; 17% cents per bale per month thereafter;
Handling in and out of warehouses, including service charges, 55 cents per bale.
CODFISH CEILING PRICES ADJUSTED
An upward adjustment in the salt codfish ceiling prices of the Gorton-Pew Fisheries Company, Ltd., Gloucester, Mass., was allowed August 27 by the OPA, to bring the company’s prices in line with those of its competitors and to relieve a situation where continued production at March ceilings would not return even costs to the company.
The new ceilings are 24 cents per on'e-pound carton, f. o. b. packing plant, and 28 cents in one-pound wood boxes. These prices represent increases of 3% cents and 5 cents per pound, respectively.
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California canners’ ceilings on sardines rolled back
Price Administrator Henderson August 26 rolled back maximum prices of California sardine canners who had abnormally high March 1942 ceilings, in order to relieve a squeeze on wholesale distributors of their products.«
This action, timed to meet the opening of the 1942 pilchard (or California sardine) catch, which just has started in the San Francisco-Monterey area, establishes specific “dollars and cents’’ price ceilings for the entire pilchard canning industry. This supplants previous price control on California sardines, which, under the general maximum price regulation, was based on each individual canner’s highest March 1942 prices.
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Packer granted relief on salmon prices
Because Deming and Gould Co. of South Bellingham, Wash., refrained from advancing its Alaska canned salmon prices during March 1942, when there was a general upward price revision by all the concern’s competitors, Price Administrator Henderson August 26 permitted the firm to adjust its prices for sales to Government agencies in line with those prevailing for competitive sellers.
Relief was granted (under § 1499.18 (b) of the general maximum price regulation^ on the basis of substantial hardship, abnormally low prices in relation to those of competitive sellers, and absence of relationship to the retail price level.
OPA adopts policy of requiring wholesalers to notify retailers of price adjustment effects
In authorizing adjustment of the maximum price of a cleansing powder sold by a wholesale establishment, the OPA August 25 adopted the policy of requiring the wholesaler to notify retailers of the effect of the adjustment on retail ceiling prices.
This policy is contained in Order Jio. 27 under section 1499.18 (b) of the general maximum price regulation which permits the Bird-Shankle Corporation of San Antonio, Tex., a wholesale grocery, to increase its maximum price for “Old Dutch Cleanser” from $3.10 to $3.19 per case for cases containing 48 14 oz. cans.
This adjustment is advisable, OPA pointed out, as the cost to the company is $3.10 per case and since its maximum selling price established by the general maximum price regulation is also $3.10, the concern does not have a margin to cover costs of handling and storage. In addition, the maximum price of $3.10 was out of line with the price charged by competitive sellers of the same commodity.
The order specifies that the wholesaler must inform retailers who purchase the cleanser of the increase of its selling price and the reasons for this adjustment. This notification points out that the ip-’ crease in the wholesale price does not permit the individual retailer to increase his maximum • selling price for the cleanser as established by the general maximum price regulation.
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ROLLA, N. D., has hired a blacksmith to cut up metal collected in its scrap drive.
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Shipping charges on export sales of newsprint clarified
Sales of newsprint for export may be made between a mill, one or more merchants, and then to an exporter without imposing unusual domestic e^tra-haul costs on any of them, according to an interpretation made August 26 by the OPA.
The ruling clarifies the provisions of the Maximum Export Price Regulation and Maximum Price Regulation No. 130 (Newsprint) and implements a previous Interpretation which permitted producers to pass on additional wartime shipping costs to their foreign purchasers.
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Plan for determining seasonal commodity prices announced
Ceiling prices for a group of specified fall and winter “seasonal commodities,” chiefly in the apparel field but also including other cold-weather items, toys, and seasonal sporting goods, are to be established by wholesalers and retailers using a pricing method announced August 28 by Price Administrator Henderson.
Types of consumer wearing apparel included under Maximum Price Regulation No. 210 (Retail and Wholesale Prices for Fall and Winter Seasonal Commodities) range from such articles as heavy wool sweaters to ear muffs, women’s quilt housecoats and wool or part wool hosiery, men’s and boys’ wool and leather jackets
and gloves, and types of footwear for sports wear or special warmth.
Appliances covered include such items as fire and snow shovels, storm doors and sashes, portable or fixed room heaters, and certain harvesting knives or saw handles.
Wholesalers and retailers of certain games and toys as well as Hallowe’en novelties and Christmas tree decorations come under the regulation.
Fall and winter sporting goods ranging from such commodities as shotgun shells, bird calls and decoys to footballs, basketballs, snowshoes, and ice-hockey sticks are also included. «
“Cost of selling” included in wool fabric ceilings, OPA rules
Manufactures of woolen and worsted apparel -fabrics may not add the “cost of selling” to their maximum prices for new fabrics calculated under Maximum Price Regulation No. 163, since the ceiling formula provided has covered this item of cost, the OPA pointed out August 25.
The maximum price for a new fabric under section 1410.102 (d) is calculated as follows:
The cost of 'the raw material used in the fabric is added to the manufacturing cost thereof. This total is then multiplied by the 1941 ratio of the manufacturer’s weighted average selling price to his weighted average manufacturing cost of all woolen and worsted apparel fabrics. The “weighted average selling price” is determined by dividing the “total gross amount received” during 194V from the sale of all woolen and worsted apparel «fabrics by the total number of yards sold during 1941.
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Rayon yarn converters advised to study regulation
Converters of rayon yarn were advised by Price Administrator Henderson August 28 to study and comply with the charges and differentials allowed for specific converting operations under Maximum Price Regulation No. 168— Converted Rayon- and Converting Charges.
Reports reaching the OPA indicate that some converters are assuming that certain differentials provided by the regulation for one type of converting operation are also applicable to other operations for which no such differentials are made.
Report deadline postponed on women’s outerwear garments
Postponement until September 15 of reports required of manufacturers of wojpen’s, misses’ and children’s outerwear garments under Maximum Price Regulation No. 153, as amended, was announced August 25 by the OPA.
Delays encountered in shipments of appropriate report forms reaching all OPA Regional and State Offices have necessitated the postponement of the filing of the reports from the originally scheduled “deadline’’ of August 31.
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RAYON REGULATION AMENDED
Producers of rayon yarn and staple fiber are permitted to choose the carrier by which a shipment is to be made and to charge interest for delinquent accounts under the terms of Amendment No. 1 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 167 (Rayon Yarn and Staple Fiber), announced by OPA, August 31.
Credit terms also amended
Credit terms are also amended in order to allow producers to continue their customary procedure of charging interest at the rate of 6 percent per annum on delinquent accounts. However, provision is made that for extension of credit beyond 30 days, no increases in prices other than such interest rate may be made.
The amendment becomes effective September 4.
Home dress patterns to be cut on ready-to-wear lines
Paper patterns used by women in making dresses and other apparel are brought under the measurement restrictions already applying to ready-made garments, by General Limitation Order L-153, issued August 27.
The effect of the order will be to give garments made in the home approximately the same length, sweep, and sleeve circumference as garments available in stores.
Only the measurement restrictions applying to other-than-wool fabrics in General Limitation Orders L-85 (women’s and children’s dresses and coats), L-116 (lingerie) and L-118 (feminine lounging wear) apply to the pattern order. The more severe measurement restrictions on wool garments in the previous orders were not applied to the pattern order, since it is not possible for the pattern manufacturer to know whether the pattern is to be used for making a dress out of wool or out of rayon or cotton.
In addition, a leeway of 5 percent was allowed, so that existing patterns which only slightly exceed maximum measurements of L-85, L-116, and L-118 --may still be used after the effective date of the order.
Time allowed to dispose of stocks
There are two effective dates, one on “master patterns,” the original patterns from which patterns for sale are made, and the other for patterns for sale. After September 1, no manufacturer may make a master pattern that exceeds the maximum measurements for other-than-wool fabrics in L-85, L-116, and L-118. After February 1, 1943, no manufacturer may sell or deliver any pattern that exceeds by more than 5 percent the maximum measurements prescribed in L-85, L-116, and L-118.
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Apparel “contractor” defined
Definition of the term “contractor” as used in Maximum Price Regulation No. 172 (Charges of Contractors in Apparel Industry) was amended by the OPA August 24, to include contractors who furnish materials, the value of which constitutes up to 30 percent of the price charged for their services. The amendment became effective August 27.
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September 1, 1942
Agent may act for seller in notifying retailers of apparel regulations
Trade associations or other agents may act for manufacturers or wholesalers in fulfilling the retail “notification” requirements of four OPA apparel regulations, the OPA announced August 26.
Seller held responsible
These regulations—
No. 153—Women’s, Girls’ and Children’s Outerwear Garments.
No. 177—Men’s and Boys’ Tailored Clothing.
No. 178—Women’s Fur Garments.
No. 208—Staple Work Clothing.
require that each manufacturer and wholesaler must enclose with his first shipment to a retailer excerpts from the text of the pertinent regulation so as to aid the retailer in determining his maximum selling prices.
OPA officials emphasize that the legal responsibility for providing the required information still rests upon the person delivering the specified garments.
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Rayon bedspread fabrics placed under MPR 39
Rayon bedspreads fabrics were removed from the scope of the rayon grey goods schedule and placed under the regulation applying to woven decorative fabrics by two amendments issued simultaneously August 25 by the OPA.
Through Amendment No. 2 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 39—Woven Decorative Fabrics—the coverage of the regulation is extended to include rayon bedspread fabrics, which are yarn-dyed and loom-finished. This action is due to the fact that such rayon bedspread fabrics are essentially the same as woven decorative fabrics covered by Regulation 99.	_
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Ceilings on “Jell-It” dessert adjusted at wholesale, retail
Adjustment of wholesale and retail maximum prices for a gelatin dessert distributed by wholesalers affiliated with the Independent Grocers Alliance Distributing Company, Chicago, Hl., is contained in Order No. 23 under Section 1499.18 (c) of the general maximum price regulation, issued August 24, by Price Administrator Henderson.
SUGAR PRICING ALTERNATIVES
Price Administrator Henderson, August 25, established a new alternative maximum price of 6^ cents a pound for refined sugar sold at retail in 10 North Atlantic Seaboard States. Retailers in this area may use the new 6Vk-cent price, or their March ceiling under which they have been operating previously, whichever is higher.
This adjustment will not raise the general level of sugar prices to the consumer, because some 44 percent of the retailers already were selling at 6Scents during March and 50 percent were selling at 7 cents or more at that time. Retail sugar price ceilings of these 94 percent will not be changed by the new Amendment No. 10 to Supplementary Regulation No. 14, effective August 31.
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Hospital rations exempt from price restrictions
Sales of canned boned chicken and canned boned turkey to the United States Government or any of its agencies August 26, were exempted from price restrictions by the OPA.
The action was taken in Amendment No. 6, issued August 26 to Revised Supplementary Regulation No. 4 to the general price regulation.
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Acutely ill patients assured of sugar rations
Hospitals principally engaged in care of persons acutely ill will be able to provide patients the same amounts, of sugar used last year, as a result of a change in the sugar rationing regulations announced August 27, by the OPA.
Amendment No. 9 to Rationing Order No. 3, effective September 5, authorizes hospitals of that kind to obtain 65 percent of the sugar base they have established for meals and food services, instead of 50 percent as* heretofore, starting with the September-October allotment period.
Added to this will be the so-called “bonus” allotment, amounting to 25 percent of the base, which will be available to all. classes of institutional users for the September-October period. Thus the hospital allotment—65 percent plus the 25 percent “bonus”—will amount to 90 percent of the base for the September-October period.
Five dried fruits exempt from GMPR on sales to military, FSCC
In order to enable the armed forces and the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation to make purchases of five dried fruits without delay in the packing and production of these commodities, Price Administrator Henderson August 24 removed these articles when sold to the armed forces or the FSCC from the general maximum price regulation.
Commodities exempted in Amendment No. 7 to Revised Supplementary Regulation No. 4, effective August 24, 1942, are dried apples, dried apricots, raisins, dried peaches, and dried pears. Large quantities of these commodities will be required for use of the armed forces and for Lend-Lease.
A specific maximum price regulation setting prices on these dried fruits is being drafted now. This regulation, when issued, will apply to all subsequent deliveries of such dried fruits under existing contracts, as well as to all subsequent contracts.
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Dried vegetables for military, U. S., exempt from GMPR
Sales and deliveries of dehydrated vegetables to the armed forces and any Government purchasing agency are excluded from provisions of the general maximum price regulation, effective September 2, the OPA announced August 27.
The exception is made in Amendment No. 8 to Revised Supplementary Regulation No. 4 under the general maximum price regulation.
Demand for dehydrated vegetables in commercial channels is relatively small and the processing of vegetables by dehydration is almost entirely dependent on Government purchases.
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Peanut loading charge raised
The maximum charge for loading peanuts in and out of warehouses operating under contracts with agencies-designated by the Agricultural Marketing Association was increased by the OPA August 25 from 50 cents a ton to 75 cents a ton.
The adjustment is contained in Amendment No. 9 to Supplementary Regulation No. 14, effective August 31. The amendment makes no change in monthly storage charges.
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RATIONING...
New quota of 35,500 passenger automobiles available for rationing in September
The quota of new passenger automobiles for rationing in September has been set at 35,500, excluding State and national reserves, the OPA announced August 25.
Unused quotas recalled
At the same time, all unused quotas from previous months, which until now have been permitted to accumulate where originally assigned, have been recalled. In the future, quotas not used in the month for which they are allotted will be withdrawn at the month end. Establishment of quotas on a monthly basis relieves the local War Price and Rationing Boards of clerical detail that had been entailed in the carry-over method.
The new quota of 35,500 will be allotted among the States and the District of Columbia. It is not comparable with the August quota of only 13,250, as this smaller number was supplemented by all the accumulated quota then still available.
Allotment by States
Withdrawal of all unused quotas from the field will not have a restrictive influence on sales under rationing, as the larger allotment provided for September is considered adequate to meet any demand that is likely to develop from those eligible to buy new cars. Moreover, there are State reserves totalling 5,700 and a national reserve of 6,000 held back to supply needs in excess of quota.
The September quotas and reserves by States are as follows (reserve follows quota):
Alabama, 524, 84; Arizona, 175, 28; Arkansas, 310, 50; Northern California, 1,059, 169; Southern California, 1,464, 234; Colorado, 311, 50; Connecticut, 523, 84; Delaware, 60, 9; Florida, 438, 70; Georgia, 782, 125.
Idaho, 147, 24; Illinois, 2,127, 350; Indiana, 1,276; 197; Iowa, 654, 105; Kansas, 549, 88; Kentucky, 488, 78; Louisiana, 506, 81; Maine, 151, 24; Maryland, 588, 94; Massachusetts, 837, 134; Michigan, 3,802, 618.
Minnesota, 908, 145; Mississippi, 244, 39; Missouri, 884, 141; Montana, 171, 27; Nebraska, 387, 62; Nevada, 101, 16; New Hampshire, 121, 19; New Jersey, 1,157, 185; New Mexico, 106, 17; New York, 2,017, 323; North Carolina, 516, 83; North Dakota, 110, 18; Ohio, 2,490, 40$; Oklahoma, 614, 98.
Oregon, 532, 85; Pennsylvania, 1,968, 315; Rhode Island, 168, 27; South Carolina, 332, 53; South Dakota, 158, 25; Tennessee, 586, 94; Texas, 2,090, 334; Utah, 246, 40; Vermont, 119, 19; Virginia, 611, 98; Washington, 643,
103; West Virginia, 317, 51; Wisconsin, 812, 130; Wyoming, 96, 15; District of Columbia, 225, 36.
Total: quota, 35^00; reserve, 5,700.
September quotas for the territories ares Alaska, 10; Panama Canal Zone, 10; Puerto Rico, 20; Virgin Islands, 2. There is no quota assigned for Hawaii, which is under military rule.
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90,000 new adult bicycles allotted for rationing
in September
The September rationing quota for new adult bicycles has been set by the OPA at 90,000, the same number allotted for August.
This total for the third month of rationing does not include States reserves of 30,000, also the same as for the current month, which are held back for adjustment of emergency demand situations.
State quotas
State quotas and reserves for September are (reserve follows quota):
Alabama, 1,668, 444; Arizona, 230, 72; Arkansas, 443, 144; Northern California, 2,952, 950; Southern California, 4,889, 1,486; Colorado, 846, 234; Connecticut, 2,197, 720; Delaware, 385, 96; Florida, 1,301, 354; Georgia, 2,112, 504.
Idaho, 192, 66; Illinois, 5,962,1,962; Indiana, 2,962, 1,068; Iowa, 1,212, 444; Kansas, 1,152, 414; Kentucky, 930, 282; Louisiana, 961, 306; Maine, 496, 180; Maryland, 1,457, 588; Massachusetts, 3,754, 1,182; Michigan, 8,012, 2,910; Minnesota, 1,105, 498; Mississippi, 908, 204; Missouri, 1,960, 702; Montana, 214, 72.
Nebraska, 648,' 228; Nevada, 127, 30; New Hampshire, 272, 96; New Jersey, 3,302, 1,188; New Mexico, 154, 48; New York, 6,328, 2,190; North Carolina, 1,316, 366; North Dakota, 192, 66; Ohio, 5,410, 2,022; Oklahoma, 962, 372; Oregon, 664, 240.
Pennsylvania, 8,436, 2,748; Rhode Island, 436, 162; South Carolina, 1,260, 240; South Dakota, 238, 72; Tennessee, 1,610, 474; Texas, 2,968, 1,086; Utah, 422, 126; Vermont, 144, 54; Virginia, 2,288, 684; Washington, 1,581, 540; West Virginia, 646, 234; Wisconsin, 1,784,' 648; Wyoming, 112, 42; District of Columbia, 400, 162.
In addition, the following quotas have been assigned for territories of the United States: Alaska, 20; Panama Canal Zone, 75; Puerto Rico, 250; Virgin Islands, 20. No quota was provided for Hawaii, which is under military rule.
Unused quotas of bicycles, like tire and automobile quotas, are not carried over from one month to the next, so that the quota assigned for each month is the total amount available for rationing during the period.
Vehicle operators urged to redouble efforts to avoid waste mileage
Price Administrator Henderson August 25 called upon all vehicle operators to intensify tire conservation efforts as the only way to make sharply reduced tire and tube quotas for September serve even the essential needs provided for in the tire rationing regulations.
Truck as well as passenger car tire allotments for the month were cut seasonally from the August level in all classifications, new and recapped, with the single exception of Grade II passenger tires, which are available only to war workers who qualify under a special provision in the regulations.
The quota for new truck tires for the States and Territories for September is 239,445, against 316,695, for August, while the quota of recapped tires and recapping services is 262,258 compared with 355,883 and the inner tube allotment is 262,261 against 347,696.
Passenger car tire allotments are 38,297 new tires for applicants on List A, which includes the most essential services, 115,544 Grade II tires, 486,468 recapped tires or recapping services, and 333,450 inner tubes. August quotas were 58,308, new for List A, 87,860 Grade II, 637,95*9 recaps and 418,910 tubes.
Reductions come at critical season
While the over-all reductions in both passenger car and truck tire quotas are about in line with the sharp drop in replacement sales that was ordinary in the past at this time of year, Mr. Henderson pointed out that they come this year at a time when the vehicles, particularly trucks, that continue to get rationed tires are working overtime to meet heavy demands being made on all transportation as our war program is speeded.
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New York town added to gas-rationed area
The town of Gowanda, N. Y., which lies across the gasoline rationing boundary that became effective in western New York August 22, was placed inside the rationed area by an amendment (No. 8) to the gasoline rationing regulations issued August 22 by the OPA.
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September 1, 1942
CONSERVATION...
Nelson stresses need of scrap material; urges people to join in collecting it
America’s urgent need of scrap material out of which to make weapons of war was emphasized by WPB Chairman Nelson in two addresses delivered last week.
Speaking at the National Scrap Rally at Griffith Stadium, Washifigton, D. C., August 22, Mr. Nelson said:
“All of you—each one of you—can do something that will contribute directly and effectively to the solution of a most pressing problem. That problem, one of the most serious we face, is shortages of materials—shortages of rubber, copper, aluminum, magnesium, steel, and many others. It is shortages of materials, and not shortages of manpower or facilities that limits the quantities we can produce of bombs and bombers, shells and guns, munitions of all sorts, and ships to carry them to the battle fronts. The materials problem is the big one—and, most important, the one in which you can help most directly.
"There is in America a tremendous, almost untapped, source of steel, copper, nickel, rubber, burlap, jute and many other‘materials, some of which we nor^ mally get by going half way around the world. There are mines of these materials on every farm, in every household, every store, every factory, in every community.
Citizens’ job
“Now we want that scrap. We need it and we need it badly, and it is ours for the taking. Finding that scrap, getting it into our war production machine, is a job and responsibility for every citizen on the home front—it is a job for you.
“I ask all of you—-everybody in the country—to help us get in this scrap. We need every single pound of scrap-old lawn mowers, discarded plows, broken-down kitchen sinks, unwanted sets of golf clubs, pieces of pipe, abandoned cornshellers, rusted tractor plows, old electric cords and broken bulbs, replaced washing machines and vacuum cleaners.”
Emphasizes need
Speaking over the Mutual Network August 27, Mr. Nelson again appealed to the public to continue the scrap collection. He said:
* “There is no possibility of overemphasizing the importance of this job. This war is being fought with metals.
When we have done everything we can to increase our ability to get the ores out of the ground, we shall still fall short unless we get the scrap metal to the furnaces also.
“So I appeal to you once more—do everything you can to aid in the collection of scrap materials.”
GET IN THE SCRAP, CLEAN WTNE MAP
Cartoon by Elderman for VICTORY. Mats and reproduction prints in two- and three-column size may be had for publication. Address requests to Distribution Section, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C., referring to V number.
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AGRICULTURE...
Wickard names board to determine wages of agricultural workers on West Coast
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard has designated four West Coast Government officials to serve as an agricultural wage board and directed them to open public hearings in California to determine the prevailing wage for farn^ workers in the sugar-beet fields of that State in connection with the Government’s program to transport domestic and Mexican workers.
The establishment by the Secretary of Agriculture of a wage board composed of one representative each of the War Manpower Commission and of the U. S. Employment Service and two representatives of the Department of Agriculture, and the determination of a prevailing wage by the board are preliminary steps to put into effect the program of supplying workers for growers who are faced with shortages of labor in their production of war-vital crops. This program is being developed under directives from the War Manpower Commission. The board is the first created in connection with this program.
Wage standards necessary
Determination of the prevailing wage rates for sugar-beet labor is necessary because of the requirement by the Mexican Government that any Mexican workers admitted to the United States receive the prevailing wage for the work they do. The Sugar Act has provided since 1937 for determination of minimum wage rates for sugar-beet labor. However, this year where ‘the prevailing wage rates are higher than the minimum, a prevailing wage determination is necessary under the Mexican agreement. The prevailing wage rates determined will be the rates paid Mexican labor brought in under the Government program. In these areas, these rates would apply to domestic workers similarly transported.
Board members
Members of the board, all headquartered at San Francisco, are: James Brant, regional chief of industrial and agricultural employment, War Manpower Commission; John Cooter, regional farm placement representative, U. S. Employment Service; Omer Mills, regional labor relations specialist, Farm Security Administration; Dave Davidson, chairman,
U. S. D. A. War Board for California, and chairman of the wage board.
The alternate board members; all of San Francisco, are: George Bodie, special assistant to the regional director, War Manpower Commission; Frank Buchner, California farm placement supervisor, U. S. Employment Service; Myer Cohen, assistant regional director, Farm Security Administration; Boyd Stewart of the California Agricultural Adjustment Agency State committee.
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A RECENT Rhode Island salvage drive netted everything from a steam roller to a broken pinball machine.
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Cotton ginning services under new ceiling regulation
Cotton ginning services, for which some 2,000,000 cotton farmers of the Nation pay an average of $65,000,000 yearly, are placed under a new maximum price regulation announced August 27 by Price Administrator Henderson.
Fees which more than 11,000 cotton gins throughout the Cotton Belt may charge for the process of separating cotton fibers from cottonseed as well as other services normally provided by the ginner are covered by the new regulation—No 211, Cotton Ginning Services, effective August 29.
In general, the ginner may charge either 105 percent of last season’s fee for the same or substantially similar services or specified dollars-and-cents prices fixed by the regulation. If he wishes to supply services which are not the same as or substantially similar to those he supplied last year, the ginner must apply to the proper OPA Regional Office for a ceiling price.
OPA Regional offices and the Cotton Belt States they ^erve are as follows:
Atlanta, Ga., Candler Building, Peachtree Street, serving Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
Dallas, Tex., Fidelity Union Building, serving Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas.
Denver, Colo., U. S. National Bank Building, serving New Mexico.
San Francisco, Calif., 1355 Market Street, serving California and Arizona.
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Machinery about completed for transporting farm labor
Administrative machinery for transporting domestic farm workers into areas where serious shortages'exist will be completed early in September, the Department of Agriculture announces. The program is being developed under directives issued by the War Manpower Commission.
For the present, operations will be carried on in the Southwest and on the Eastern Seaboard, in crop areas where the greatest need for labor is expected.
Employment guaranteed
Transportation and subsistence will be furnished by the Farm Security Administration, except that growers or grower groups will be expected to pay costs up to 200 miles. Employers will be expected to furnish performance bond or other acceptable guarantee of fulfillment of contract agreements.
In addition to the program for transporting domestic farm workers, the Farm Security Administration is also working out operating details to bring in agricultural workers from Mexico. The number of Mexicans to be employed under the arrangement recently worked out with the Mexican Government will depend on the extent to which needs can first be met with accessible domestic labor.
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Two schools planned to teach dehydrators improved methods
In the interest of improved and increased dehydration of vegetables to supply war needs, the U. S. Department of Agriculture is planning two schools for training commercial dehydrators in the better practices recently developed in the Department’s research laboratories.
The schools, under supervision of the Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering, will be at the Department’s Western Regional Laboratory, Albany, Calif., and at a large commercial canning -plant at Rochester, N. Y. Each session will last for two weeks, and the schools will be staffed by technicians from the Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering, the Bureau of Plant Industry, Oregon State College, University of California, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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September 1, 1942
New industry advisory committees
The WPB has announced the formation of the following new industry advisory committees:
CALCULATING MACHINE MANUFACTURERS
Government presiding officer—N. G. Burleigh, chief of the services branch.
Members^
E. F. Britten, Jr., Monroe Calculating Machine Co., Orange, N. J.; John S. Coleman, Burroughs Adding Machine Co., Detroit, Mich.; Carl M. Friden, Friden Calculating Machine Co., Inc., San Leandro, Calif.; H. A. Hicks, Remington Rand, Inc., Buffalo, N. Yj Edgar B. Jessup, Marchant Calculating Machine Co., Inc., Oakland, Calif.; Raymond J. Koch, Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co., Chicago, Ill.; M. T. Snyder, Allen Calculators, Inc., Grand Rapids, Mich.
COAL TAR DISTILLING INDUSTRY
Government presiding officer—Edward Casey, chief, coal tar unit, chemicals branch.
Members:
E. W. Clark, Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation, New York, N. Y.; J. N. Forker, Koppers Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.; P. C. Reilly, Sr., Reilly Tar & Chemical Corporation, Indianapolis, Ind.; J. V. Freeman, U. S. Steel Corporation, New York, N. Y.; T/H. Hall, Jr., Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, Newark, N. J.; Charles R. Faben, The Henni-son-Wright Corporation, Toledo, Ohio.
CONCRETE PAVER MANUFACTURERS
Government presiding officer—Ralph H. Dano, acting section chief of the construction equipment section.
Members:
B. F. Devine, Manager, Construction Machinery Division, Chain Belt Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; George J. Dimond, manager, Mixer Division, Koehring Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; D. D. Kennedy, president, The Foote Company, Inc., Nunda, N. Y.; Walter Muller, president Ransome Concrete Machinery Co., Dunellen, N. J.
CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION MIXER MFRS.
Government presiding officer—Ralpl; H. Dano, acting section chief of the construction equipment section.
Members:
B. F. Devine, manager, Construction Machinery Division, Chain Belt Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; L. S. Holden, president, Construction Machinery Co., Waterloo, Iowa; M. V. Gilson, secretary-treasurer, Gilson Brothers, Inc., Fredonia, Wis.; Lion Gardner, vice president, Jaeger Machine Co., Columbus, Ohio; W. B. Knickerbocker, president, Knickerbocker Co., Jackson, Mich.; George J. Dimond, manager, Mixer Division, Koehring Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; Walter Muller, president, Ransome Concrete Machinery Co., Dunellen, N. J.; H. E. Smith, president, T. L. Smith Co., 3836 North 82d Street, Milwaukee, Wis.; H. E. Moor, president and general manager, Lansing Co., Lansing, Mich.; N. Essick, Essick Manufacturing Co., 1950 Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.
DOMESTIC ICE REGISTRATION
Government presiding officer—Lindsay M. Morrison, chief of section G refrigerators.
Members :
T. J. Beck, Ice Cooling Appliance Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio; William F. Arndt, Cool-erator Co., Duluth, Minn.; H. B. Imes, Progress Refrigeration Co., Louisville, Ky.; P. E. Stevens, Maine Mfg. Co., Nashua, N. H.; D. A. Ward, Ward Refrigeration and Manufacturing Co., Los Angeles, Calif.; J. Feivelson, Fy-Boro Metal Products Co., Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y.
DRIED FRUIT INDUSTRY
Government presiding officer—W. S. Breton, of the food branch.
Members:
D. K. Grady, assistant to president, Rosenberg Bros., Inc., San Francisco, Calif.; C. W. Griffin, Jr., assistant dried fruit manager, California Packing Corporation, San Francisco, Calif.; D. R. Hoak, owner. West Coast Qrowers & Packers, Fresno, Calif.; Wm. N. Keeler, general manager, Sun-Maid Raisin Growers Association, Fresno, Calif.; T. O. Kluge, assistant general manager, California Prune & Apricot (Growers Association, San Jose, Calif.; Bert Katz, president, Guggenhime & Co., San Francisco, Calif.; James Lively, president, C. L. Dick & Co., San Jose, Calif.; B. E. Richmond, vice president and general manager, dried fruit division, Richmond-Chase Co., San Jose, Calif.; C. C. Röss, president, Ross Packing Co., Selah, Wash.; Edward Welkley, Welkley Bros., Etest Rochester, N. Y.
HARDWOOD VENEER MANUFACTURERS
Government presiding officer—Clifford P. Setter, chief, plywood and veneer section.
Members:
T. R. Williams, partner, I. T. Williams &-Son, 11th Avenue, New York, N. Y.; L. A. Mizener, vice president, Chicago Mill & Lumber Co., Helena, Ark.; Jack Daugherty, vice president, Hoosier Veneer Co., Inc., 3321 Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind.; John McMillan, president. Bacon McMillan Veneer Co., Stockton, Ala.; S. M. Nickey, Jr., vice president, Nickey Bros. Co., Memphis, Tenn.; Joe Egan, vice president, Wood Mosaic Co., Louisville, Ky.; Robert H. Foard, general manager, Appalachian Veneer Co., Inc., Murphy, N. C.; Juel Lee, general manager, Birds Eye Veneer Co., Escanaba, Mich.; Russell Smith, president, Carolina Veneer Co.f" Inc., Orangeburg, S. C.; Allen Quimby, Jr., manager, Allen Quimby Co., Bingham, Maine.
INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL PRODUCERS
Government presiding officer.—Dr.
Walter G. Whitman, assistant chief of the chemicals branch.
Members :
James McLaughlin, Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corporation, New York, N. Y.; Dr. Lewis H. Marks, Publicker Commercial Alcohol Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Glen Haskell, U. S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc., New York, N. Y.; H. F. Willkie, Jos. E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., Louisville, Ky.; W. H. Venneman, Frankfort Distilleries, Inc., Louisville, Ky.; Owsley Brown, Brown-Forman Distilling Co., Louisville, Ky.; Julian P. VanWinkle, Stitzel Weller Distillery, Louisville, Ky.; I. Strouse,. Baltimore Pure Dye Distilling Co., Baltimore, Md.; J. B. Celia, Roma Wine Co., Inc., Fresno, Calif.; Carl J. Kiefer, Schenley Distillers Corporation, New York, N. Y..
LINSEED CRUSHERS INDUSTRY
Government presiding officer—Robert W. Capps, of the chemicals branch.
Members:
Shreve Archer, Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., Minneapolis, Minn.; E. C. Bisbee, feisbee Linseed Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; G. W. Brown, Brown Linseed Co., Port Richmond, N. Y.; S. B. Coolidge, Jr., The Sherwin-Williams Co., Cleveland, Ohio; J. H. Gillen, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.; B. Rocca, Pacific Vegetable Oil Co., San Francisco, Calif.; Vai Wurtle, Minnesota Linseed Cb., Minneapolis, Minn.; J. A. Johansen, National Lead Co., New York City, N. Y.
MEAT CANNING INDUSTRY
Government presiding officer—J. R. Vander Veer, assistant chief, meat packing section of the food branch, ”
Members:
W. R. Sinclair, Kingan & Co., Indianapolis, J nd.; C. E. Martin, Illinois Meat Co., Chicago, 11.; Park Dougherty, Geo. A. Hormel & Co., Austin, Minn.; Frederick Vogt, F. G. Vogt Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.; T. A. Lambert, Gebhardt Chili Powder Co., San Antonio, Tex.; Russell Smith, Wilson & Co., Chicago, Ill.; Gus Roberts, Cudahy Packing Co., Chicago, Ill.; John Clair, Republic Food Products Co., Chicago, Ill.
MEDICAL & SURGICAL RUBBER GOODS
Government presiding officer—C. S. Reynolds, of the rubber and rubberproducts branch.
Members:
J. Stone Carlson, Davidson Rubber Co., Boston, Mass.; Karl Herbruck, The Wilson Rubber Co., Canton, Ohio; Ernest I. Kilcup, Davol Rubber Co., Providence, R. I.; F. Thatcher Lane, The Seamless Rubber Co., New Haven, Conn.; R. L. Limbert, Lee Tire & Rubber Co., Conshohocken, Pa.; W. B. McIntosh, Pyramid Rubber Co., Ravenna, Ohio; W. S. Richardson, The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio; Julius Schmid, Jr., Julius Schmid, Inc., New York, N. Y.; E. Ward Stearns, Parker, Stearns & Co., 288 Sheffield Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Ray A. Whidden, Bauer & Black, Chicago, Ill.
PORTABLE ROCK CRUSHER MANUFACTURERS
Government presiding officer—Ralph H. Dano, acting chief, construction equipment section.
Members:
David B. Cook, owner, Acme Road Machinery Co., Frankfort, N. Y.; E. N. Brooks, president, Brooks Equipment & Mfg. Co., Knoxville, Tenn.; J. H. Fisher, consultant. New Holland Machine Co., New Holland, Pa.; Kenneth Lindsay, vice president, Iowa Manufacturing Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Gerald Smith, executive engineer, Smith Engineering Works, Milwaukee, Wis.; L. W. Yerk, president, Pioneer Engineering Works, Minneapolis, Minn.; W. P. Gruendler, Gruendler Crusher & Pulverizer Co., St. Louis, Mo.
POTASH PRODUCERS INDUSTRY
* Government presiding officer—T. E. Milliman, of the chemicals branch.
Members:
Morace M. Albright, United States Potash Co., New York, N. Y.; Cecil B. Baker, American Potash & Chemical Corporation, New York, N. Y.; J. B. Grant, Potash Company of America, New York, N. Y.; James P. Mar-geson, Jr., International-Minerals & Chemical Corporation, New York, N. Y.
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CIVILIAN DEFENSE ...
Organized crews of conscientious objectors to aid local defense in emergencies
The Office of Civilian Defense announced August 25 that it has accepted the offer of authorities in charge of Civilian Public Service Camps to provide organized crews of conscientious objectors to assist in local civilian defense operations in case of emergency.
Upon request
While conscientious objectors are not used in combatant military service, both the War Department and the Selective Service System have approved acceptance of their services for civilian defense purposes when requested by local authorities.
Self-sustaining units of 24 men each for utilization of these services in civilian defense have been organized in the camps. Each unit consists of the following : One leader, two truck drivers, one mechanic, six first-aid men, four cooks and assistants, six stretcher bearers, and four utility workers.
These units will not be assigned to definite communities but in an emergency their assistance may be requested by the Defense Council of any community within 100 miles of their respective camp locations. They will assist in the work of demolition and clearance, road repair, emergency food and housing, and rescue units, and in rendering elementary first aid. They will also be available for the Use of evacuation authorities.
In case of enemy action
In emergencies not caused by enemy action—floods, wind storms, widespread fires, etc.—requests for their services must be referred to the official in charge of civilian defense of the State in which the camp is located, who must obtain approval from the Selective Service System in Washington for use of the unit.
In case of emergency arising from enemy action, however, requests for the assistance of conscientious objector units may be made by local Defense Councils direct to the superintendent of the appropriate camp, who has authority to dispatch the units without further clearance.
Upon entering an emergency zone for active duty the armband insigne of the Civilian Defense Auxiliary Group will be issued to members of such groups so that they may move through the streets.
Camps in which civilian defense units have been organized are:
Arkansas—Magnolia; California—Coleville, Glendora, North Fork, Placerville, Santa Barbara; Colorado—Colorado Springs, Fort Collins; Florida—Crestview; Illinois—Henry; Indiana—Largo, Medaryville, Merom; Iowa— Denison; Maryland—Beltsville, Hagerstown, Elkridge (Patapsco Camp) ; Massachusetts— Ashburnham, Petersham, Royalston; Michigan—Walhalla, Wellston; Nebraska—Weeping Water; New Hampshire—Campton, Hancock (Stoddard Camp); New York—Big Flats, Cooperstown; North Carolina—Marion (Buck Creek Camp); Ohio—Coshocton, Marietta; Oregon—Cascade Locks; Pennsylvania—Howard, Ludlow (Kane Camp), Wells Tannery (Sideling Hill Camp); Virginia—Golax County (Golax Camp), Grottoes, Luray (Shenandoah Park Project) and Lyndhurst.
Basis for settling cargo insurance claims established
The War Shipping Administration, August 24, announced the conclusion of negotiations between the Administration and the American Institute of Marine Underwriters looking toward the establishment of a basis for settling hull and cargo insurance claims where, by reason of the disappearance of the vessel, it is impossible to determine whether the cause of loss is of a marine or of a war risk nature.
To submit to arbitration
Under the procedure embodied in this agreement, in the event of such a loss, an endeavor will be made by both parties to arrive promptly at the cause of the loss. Failing an agreement on this point, the question will be submitted to arbitration, and the arbitrator will determine what portion of the claim shall be advanced by each party, or whether the entire amount of the claim will be advanced by one party. Subsequent to such arbitration, the War Shipping Administration, and the marine underwriters involved, will give each other mutual guarantees as to the ultimate settlement of the loss when the cause of loss is finally determined.
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A NAZI NEWSPAPER warns Germans that tractor fuel is unsafe in the hands of foreign (slave) workers and that “sabotage and fires” must be guarded against.
Small “V-horn” chosen as air raid warning device
After 7 months of searching and testing, the Office of Civilian Defense has chosen a small, inexpensive horn as an air raid warning device to supplement and round out a warning system based on the Victory Siren and for use in smaller communities where the large siren is not necessary.
The new “V-horn,” known as the “Signalphone,” is the little brother of the Victory Siren. This horn is, however, the only small device tested by the Bureau of Standards which has been found to meet the OCD’s requirements as to effectiveness, cost, dependability and conservation of strategic materials.
Application has been filed with the War Production Board for approval of the horn and it is understood that at least.one manufacturer has filed for priorities for materials necessary to get into production.
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Community organization plan outlined by OCD
A comprehensive plan of community organization emphasizing the responsibility of local defense councils for the total job of planning and coordinating civilian participation in the war effort was issued August 25 by the OCD in a new publication entitled “Organization Outline for Local Defense Councils.”
The plan presented in the outline, OCD says, is based upon the experience of other Federal agencies, of “thousands of defense councils, some strong and some weak, and upon the advice and experience of State defense councils.”
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Use of OCD insignia for political purposes banned
Reproduction of OCD insignia in connection with any printed matter for political purposes was prohibited in an order issued August 21 by James M. Landis, Director of the Office of Civilian Defense.
Commercial use of OCD insignia also is regulated by the Director, who may prohibit such publication or reproduction of these symbols in cases where it would misrepresent or discredit the organization.
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September 1, 1942
HEALTH AND WELFARE . . .
Priorities for nursing service set up as nurses answer call to colors
In an effort to get every nurse into the place where she Is most needed, the National Nursing Council for War Service in collaboration with the Health and Medical Committee of the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services, has set up priorities for nursing service.
Must pool services
A pamphlet, “Nurses to the Colors,” issued by the Council, classifies nursing according to two groups: those who 'should serve with the armed forces, and those who should serve at home.
The pamphlet points out that every graduate nurse in the United States is fighting this war. Some of those on the home front are giving service as vital as those with the fighting forces. Yet the pressing needs must be met. The Army and Navy are asking for 3,000 nurses a month. Nursing services of the entire Nation must be pooled to win the war.
Luxury nursing out
Voluntary adjustment of supply and distribution of nurses is the national policy at present, and, consequently, the nursing profession is making every effort to do the job assigned to it. However, the armed forces must have adequate care, and there are not enough nurses to allow for service as usual at home. Nurses themselves and their employers must make the necessary adjustments to'eliminate duplication of nursing services, luxury nursing, and the employment of nurses in nonnursing positions.
Suggested classification
The suggested classification of nurses who should serve in the armed forces or at home is as follows:
A nurse should serve with the armed forces if she is single, under forty, and (1) doing private duty; (2) on a hospital’s general staff; (3) a head nurse not essential for teaching or supervision; (4) a public health nurse not essential for maintaining minimum civilian health service in any given community; (5) in a nonnursing positioh; (6) an office nurse.
A nurse should serve at home if she (1) has a position in a hospital which
has a school of nursing as (a) adminis-strator in a key position, (b) Instructor, (c) supervisor, (d) head nurse in position related to teaching or supervision;
(2)	In a hospital without a school of nursing as administrator or supervisor;
(3)	In a public health agency as (a) administrator, (b) teacher and supervisor, (c) staff nurse essential for maintaining minimum civilian health services in any given community, (d) an Industrial nurse.
Copies of the pamphlet, “Nurses to the Colors,” may be obtained from the National Nursing Council for War Service, 1790 Broadway, New York, New York.
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J. W. “PAPPY” DIEHL, of Hendry County, Ha., who has four sons in the Army and a son-in-law in the Navy, recently hitched his bull to a home-made trailer and collected 590 pounds of scrap rubber.
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Former CCC camps to become hospitals for social protection
More than 25 camps formerly used by the Civilian Conservation Corps will be made available for use as detention centers and quarantine hospitals to approximately 20 States with critical venereal disease areas, Charles P. Taft, Assistant Director of the Office of Defense Health and Welfare. Services, announced August 26.
Action to obtain these camps was taken following urgent appeals from many com-, munities that over-crowded detention facilities were preventing adequate medical treatment of girls found infected with venereal disease. Made available through the cooperation of the War Department and the United States Public Health Service, these Civilian Conservation Corps hospitals will be operated by Health Departments of the various States under standards of medical care recommended by the United States Public Health Service.
City families improve knowledge of foods as result of nutrition drive, South Bend survey shows
Typical city families made an improvement of about 10 percent in their knowledge, attitude toward, and actual use of healthful foods as a result of a one week community nutrition campaign, according to a study conducted in South Bend, Ind., and made public August 25 by Paul V. McNutt, Director of Defense Health and Welfare Services.
To gauge national campaign
The study, made by Crossley Incorporated at the request of Mr. McNutt’s Office, represents an effort to gauge the effectiveness of current nutrition activities, as a guide to Nation-wide community efforts being carried on as part of the national nutrition program. South Bend offered a practical demonstration oi such activities because it had a well-organized nutrition set-up pnd wasplan-ning an intensive “Nutrition Week.”
In developing its Nutrition Week, the South Bend Nutrition Committee and the St. Joseph County Defense Council of which it is a part, had the cooperation of local business, civic groups, schools, and other local government agencies and private organizations. National business concerns, already cooperating in the national nutrition program, gave similar assistance in* South Bend through advertising, posters, displays, and so on. The Nutrition Division of the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services, in addition to arranging for the nutrition survey, gave its advice and guidance.
Highlights of Nutrition Week included: An opening proclamation by the Mayor published as a full-page spread in the local newspaper and, throughout the campaign, extensive newspaper coverage both in editorial space and “institutional” advertising; some 25 window displays on nutrition flanking the main shopping street; information and registration booths, manned by the Nutrition Committee, in both downtown and neighborhood stores; meetings all over the county, and numerous radio programs; special school activities; and showings of nutrition motion pictures in local theaters.
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THE MOUNT for a 5-inch antiaircraft gun weighs about 24 tons, contains 2,700 different parts.
September 1, 1942
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Davies expresses hope East may obtain 75 percent of oil needed this winter
Hope that it may be possible to supply the Eastern States with 75 percent of their unrestricted heating oil requirements next winter was expressed August 25 by Deputy Petroleum Coordinator for War Ralph K. Davies.
He spoke at a meeting of New England Senators, Congressmen, and State officials, who gathered at the invitation of Congressman E. N. Rogers of Massachusetts. Present, also, were War Production Board Chairman Nelson, Price Administrator Henderson, and Defense Transportation Director Eastman.
Conservation necessary
Mr. Davies said:
The future is always uncertain, and in wartime it is obviously more uncertain. If one attempts any prediction as to what the
situation may be several months hence, he must take into consideration the fact that he cannot know how many more tankers may be diverted to military service, he cannot know how many more may be sunk; he cannot know what emergencies might interfere with our rail transportation. Nor can he know how severe the weather next winter may be.
Realizing all of these uncertainties, I will say that, given any luck, I hope that we shall be able to supply the States on the Atlantic Seaboard with 75 percent of their unrestricted heating oil requirements. That would mean that it would be necessary to reduce consumption by 25 percent.
We hope that this 25 percent gap between supply and demand may be bridged by the conversion of oil-burning facilities' to the use of coal wherever possible, and by the institution of oil-conservation measures by those persons who are unable to convert.
By conservation, I mean such things as Insulation, the adjustment of heating equipment to give efficiency, the avoidance of heating the whole house when only some of the rooms are in use, careless use of hot water, and other such waste of oil.
East Coast industry outstrips domestic consumer in preparing for fuel shortage
East Coast industrial plants have far outdistanced the domestic consumer in taking precautions against the fuel and heating-oil shortage, according to a report from the petroleum industry August 24 to the Office of Petroleum Coordinator for War Ickes.
John A. Brown, Chairman of the Petroleum Industry General Committee for the East Coast area, reported that the program for converting Atlantic Seaboard industrial plants from fuel oil to coal consumption is making excellent progress, but that neither industrial nor domestic consumers fully comprehend yet the gravity of the fuel-oil situation.
Home owners fail to heed warning
Mr. Brown informed the Coordinator that East Coast industrial plants already had converted from fuel oil to coal in more than 50 percent of the cases where conversion is possible, and, as a result, were saving more than 22,500,000 barrels of fuel oil annually.
He said that conversion program in industrial plants should bring about eventually saving of 42,000,000 barrels, or about 35 percent of the total industrial fuel-oil consumption on the East Coast.
As contrasted'with the progress being made in industrial plants, Mr. Brown reported that not more than 1 percent of homes now heated with fuel oil have
been converted. He said that home owners so far had failed to heed the Government warning that East Coast homes could be cold this winter unless home owners who can convert their oil burners to coal consumption make the change-over and get their coal supplies ordered and into the coal bin promptly.
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All-rail coal shipments to New England show decline
All-rail shipments to New England of anthracite and bituminous coal declined 315 carloads in the week ending on August 15 as compared to the preceding week, Howard A. Gray, Acting Director of the Office of Solid Fuels Coordinator for War, said August 22.
The drop is a matter of concern, Mr. Gray said, because shipments must be maintained at a high level while transportation facilities are available if sufficient coal is to be put into protective storage in the area to reduce the dangers of fuel emergencies in the winter months.
The drop in New England shipments in the week ended AUgust 15 averaged 45 cars per day less than the shipments in the previous week, Mr. Gray said, basing his calculation upon tabulations by the Association of American Railroads.
Coal consumers in shortage areas urged to order now
Stating that it now appears that consumers in Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas may be short as much as several hundred thousand tons of coal this winter unless immediate steps are taken to increase shipments from other States, Howard A. Gray, Acting Director of the Office of Solid Fuels Coordinator for War, announced August 24 that surplus coal is now available at mines in Illinois and Western Kentucky.
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Sponge iron plant to be located in Wyoming
The commercial-size pilot plant for the production of sponge iron, to be built by the Bureau, of Mines under a recent authorization by Congress, will be located at Laramie, Wyo., on a site made available to the Government, it was announced August 28 by the Office of Secretary of the Interior Ickes.
This location was chosen, it was stated,-mainly because of its nearness to available sources of iron ore, natural gas, and coal—the three chief materials needed to produce the porous and granular metal on the basis of its studies to date. The Bureau of Mines has concluded that sponge iron can be utilized as a suitable substitute for scrap iron to mix with ordinary pig iron in manufacturing steel.
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Decrease shown in shipments of oil to East by rail
A total of 817,980 barrels daily of petroleum and petroleum products were shipped to the Atlantic Seaboard by rail during the week ended August 22.
This figure was a decrease from the previous week’s shipments.
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Bauxite deposits located in Georgia counties
Carrying forward the war program of the Department of the Interior, engineers and geologists of the Bureau of Mines and the Geological Survey have blocked out more than 500,000 tons of valuable bauxite in two Georgia counties, the Office of Secretary of the Interior Ickes announced August 27.
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September 1, 1942
Load limits suspended for certain water freight
To facilitate transportation of freight by barge, the ODT August 29 suspended the maximum loading provisions of General Order ODT No. 18 as they apply to certain movements of freight in connection with water traffic.
The general order requires that civilian freight, with certain exceptions, be loaded to the full visible capacity or to the marked load limit of a car, whichever is the lesser.
By a supplementary order (Suspension Order ODT No. 18-1), which becomes effective September 15, shipments loaded into a car by a water carrier subsequent to a movement of such shipments by water, and for the furtherance of such shipments, need not meet the maximum loading requirements.
This applies to commodities moving by water, thence by rail, and to commodities moving by rail, thence by water, and thence by rail to destination.
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ODT tire order upheld by court
Action of the Federal District Court at Buffalo, N. Y., which resulted in halting the use of rubber tires in a scheduled automobile "thrill show” was hailed August 25 by ODT Director Eastman as a significant step In the drive to eliminate the use of rubber in nonessential activities.
Mr. Eastman pointed out that this was the first time the validity of an ODT order had been tested in the courts and that the order had been promptly sustained and enforced.
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Seattle contract signed for handling Lend-Lease shipments
Conclusion of a contract with the Seattle Foreign Freight Forwarders Corporation to handle all Lend-Lease shipments at Puget Sound ports was announced by the WaS rhipping Administration August 24.
The Seattle contract is the third of its kind to be signed with forwarding groups on the West Coast, and is the eleventh to be signed with freight forwarding interests throughout the United States. These contracts are entered into under provisions of the Bland Freight Forwarding Act, and they facilitate the movement of Lend-Lease cargoes at various ports of the United States.
“CIRCUITOUS ROUTE” CLARIFIED
An amendment clarifying the circuitous route provision of General Order ODT No^S, Revised, was issued August 22 by the Office of Defense Transportation.
Trucks governed by this provision may not be operated over any route or combination of routes which exceeds the most direct highway route by 10 percent or more, except under certain conditions. .
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First joint information office set up to aid truckers
Establishment of the first joint information office to help truckers to improve the efficiency of their operations in line with the drive to conserve vital transport equipment was announced August 27 by the ODT.
The office is located at 10 North Clark Street, Chicago, Ill., and is known as Chicago Joint Information Office, Inc. It is described as “a nonprofit Illinois corporation established by the trucking industry in Chicago to assist over-the-road motor carriers in complying with orders of the Office of Defense Transportation.”
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Bus survice suspended to eliminate duplication
An order designed to save approximately 11,400 bus-miles a month on the route between Seattle, Wash., and Portland, Oreg., was issued August 22 by the ODT.
Special Order No. B-15 directed Independent Stages, Inc., to suspend service between the two cities, eliminating duplication of service also provided by the North Coast Transportation Co. Independent Stages is a subsidiary of North Coast Transportation.
Hie order, effective August 28, reduces from 13 to 12 the number of daily round trips.
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APPOINTMENTS
ODT Director Eastman August 24 announced the appointment of two additional members of the field staff of ODT’s division of railway transport.
Theo Davis, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was named associate director, Rail-Truck Coordination, at Cincinnati.
Charles B. Roeder, of Philadelphia, was made associate director, Rail-Truck Coordination, in that city.
Preferred mileage for ministers restricted to community service
Preferred mileage for ministers and religious practitioners will be restricted to those using their cars to serve members of a' religious group in a specific locality, the OPA announced August 25 in an amendment to the gasoline rationing regulations.
OPA officials, issuing Amendment No. 7, said it clarifies the regulations in excluding traveling evangelists from the class of drivers entitled to C rationing books. Such drivers may, however, apply for occupational mileage up to 470 miles a month as provided by an A book plus a supplemental B book.
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Local boards to reexamine holders of extra gas rations
Reexamining of all supplemental gasoline rations will be made by local rationing boards, it was announced August 26 by Paul M. O’Leary, Deputy OPA Administrator in charge of rationing. Particular emphasis will be placed on holders of C books under the preferred mileage regulations, and the S books giving service rations to delivery cars, trucks, and buses, Mr. O’Leary said.
First attention will be directed to cases where doubt has arisen as to the eligibility of the supplementary ration book holder.
Prosecutions will be undertaken in cases of deliberate violations.
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Shipyard workers increase output 12% percent since Jan. 1
Confident that American shipyard workers will step up production of new tonnage more than 25 percent next year, Admiral Emory S. Land .chairman of the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administrator, August 22 declared that workers from the beginning of this year had already increased their output more than 12 y2 percent.
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Poland’s determination to resist Nazis voiced by Ambassador Ciechanowski on third anniversary of Hitler invasion
Poland’s determination to carry on unfaltering resistance against her Nazi conquerors, despite the fact that the Nazis are carrying on a systematic effort to exterminate the Polish people, was expressed by Jan Ciechanowski, Polish Am--bassador to the United States, in an address delivered over the NBC network from Detroit, August 31.
Although Poland’s territory has been overrun and thousands of her citizens have been killed or deported, “there has not been a single Pole willing to give up the struggle, let alone cooperate with the enemy,”x he declared. Polish fighting forces abroad continue to grow and are expected soon to reach 200,000, he said. They have seen service in Norway, France, Libya, and on the air front over Europe, and at sea,
Poland’s heroic resistance
Following is the partial text of Mr. Ciechanowski’s address:
“This first total war in history started 3 years ago, when Germany, attacked Poland on the first day of September 1939. It now affects every man, woman, and child the world over.
“When Poland unhesitatingly took up Hitler’s challenge and opposed armed resistance to the German onslaught, she was fully aware that if she was unaided, her defense would inevitably be broken by the overwhelming forces of the enemy.
“Against Hitler’s 16 armored and motorized divisions with 4,000 tanks, Poland had two armored brigades with but a few hundred tanks. To his 4,000 planes, Po-~ land had 377. Against 59 most modernly equipped German infantry divisions, Po-. land had 39, of which she had, been able to mobilize only twenty.
Hitler’s blitz strikes
“The German onslaught had been launched on the second day of Poland’s belated mobilization.
“Notwithstanding such overwhelming odds, Poland fought a regular defensive campaign for five full weeks, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.
“In the light of subsequent events and of the similar rapidity of the advance of Hitler’s forces in Western Europe in 1940, the world realized how well the Polish Army had fought and how powerful had been Poland’s resistance in the campaign of September 1939.
“In the course of 3 years of German occupation in Poland 140,000 people have been executed by German firing squads; at least 60,000 have been tortured to death in concentration camps; over 700,-000 Polish Jews have been murdered or tortured to death; and 2^)00,000 people have been driven from their homes.
“These figures are conservatively compiled exclusively on the basis of German official data available. Hitler decided to exterminate the Polish nation and everything is being done to achieve this aim.
Poles never falter
“Notwithstanding this appalling state of things, the Polish nation has never faltered in its united resistance against the invaders. Five German attempts to set up a puppet government in Poland have failed.
“On the basis of the preceding facts, through her fighting forces on land, on sea, and in the air, and through the heroic resistance of her nation, Poland is, and will remain until the victorious end of this war, a co-belligerent member of the United Nations’ group in the fullest sense of the word.
Salutes United Nations
“On behalf of the Polish people I pay tribute to our British ally and to the American people, whose invaluable support and generous material aid have so greatly helped Poland to carry on the fight and to remain true to her traditions.
“At this phase of the war, when the United Nations are steadily nearing the peak of their war production and preparation of material and manpower necessary to defeat the enemies of human freedom and civilization, it is essential that every man, woman and child should realize the gravity of the moment and the greatness of what is at stake and should adapt themselves wholeheartedly and entirely to the requirements of total warfare. We cannot afford to lose even an hour, even a minute—for every hour and each minute mean the loss of lives, increased misery and oppression of fellowmen, women and children. Hence, the responsibility of civilized mankind is great at this crucial moment of its destiny. The freedom of humanity is in peril.
“The eleventh hour has struck—there is no time to lose.”
WAR EFFORT INDICES
Percent
MANPOWER	change
from July
July 1942:	*Numl)er mi
Labor force_________ 56,800, 000	4-0-4
Unemployed__________	2,800,000	—50.9
Employed:	*54,000,000	4-6.1
Nonagricul-tural_______*42,300,000	4-5-2
Agricultural- *11,700,000	4-9.3
FINANCE	In millions
of dollars
Authorized program June 1940-
August 15, 1942_______________-- **214, 759
Airplanes_______________________ 45, 500
Ordnance_______________.________ 45, 053
Miscellaneous munitions-_—	32, 658
Naval ships_______-______________ 18,460
Industrial facilities___________ 17, 601
Posts, depots, etc______________ 15, 534
Pay, subsistence, travel for the -armed forces—  ___________—	14,916
Merchant ships__________________;	8,494
Stockpile, food exports——-_	4,	851
Housing____________________________ 1,	392
Miscellaneous_______________________ 1V,	300
Total expenditures, June 1940-August 15, 1942_______________ **42,067
June m0-June
Authorized program____________**170,288
Contracts and other commitments—?-______________________ **129,998
Expenditures__________________ * *34, 765
Sales of War Bonds—
Cumulative May 1941-August 28, 1942__________________ 8, 200
August 1-28, 1942_____________ 642
PLANT EXPANSION
June mo to latest reporting date
Gov. commitments for war plant expansion; 1,887 projects, June 30—___________________________ 13, 524
Private commitments for war plant expansion; 8,686 projects, June 30_______________________ 2,996
* New series starting August 18.
* * Preliminary.
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New OWI pamphlet gives full facts about our allies
On the eve of the third anniversary of the day Germany invaded Poland and began the war in Europe, the Office of War Information August 31 announced the publication of à pamphlet, “The Thousand Million,” which outlines the military strength and the backgrounds of the people of the United Nations.
The pamphlet, which includes the texts -of the Atlantic Charter and the Declaration by United Nations, was written by the staff of the Office of War Information from facts checked by the embassies and legations concerned? Especially prepared for the use of speakers and writers, the text may be quoted with or without acknowledgement.
Copies of “The Thousand Million” may be obtained by writing to the Office of War Information, Washington.