INVESTIGATION URGED
Running Of Ford Bomber Plant (Received September 26,10-5 p.m.) DETROIT, September 26. A letter signed by union leaders of 35,000 workers at the Ford Willow Run bomber, plant charged that the plant is “one of the outstanding failures of this war. The company has fallen down in the final assembly of planes and is never able to recruit enough workers to operate the plant at to<p efficiency.” They added, that the management is constructing an additional large building without the prospect, of adequate manpower. The company’s labour relations policy has also retarded production. The company almost from the start has been shipping a great many planes to other plants for final assembly, because its own final assembly departments cannot match the production of its manufacturing and preliminary assemblies.
The letter, which was addressed to President Roosevelt, the Secretary of War, Mr. Stimson, and Senator Truman, asked for an immediate investigation.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 1, 27 September 1943, Page 5
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