INDUSTRY AFTER WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1942, Page 5

INDUSTRY AFTER WAR

BUILDING OF A NEW WORLD

WASHINGTON, June 9,

The head of the War Production Board, Mr. Nelson, in a speech in Columbia, declared that the war production effort would give the United States industrial plant, which would be simply beyond all price, consequently the post-war generation would have the most magnificent opportunity any nation ever had to build a new world in which poverty was not inevitaibie any more. For the first time in the history of the human race, there would be enough of everything to go round.

"Thjis year," he said, "we will make 60,000 planes. Before the end; of the year we will be picking up speed for p-'en vaster production. We have foundl our total war production higher than we had any reason to suppose it could1 be when we blueprinted the war plants. For instance, a new aircraft faStotpr was designed which at full capacity could produce 50 planes a montli Now we have discovered that the reial capacity is 150 a month."

The House Appropriations Committee approved President Roosevelt's request for 280,000,000 dollars for a drastxoally curtailed Works Progress Association programme from July 1, maintaining in employment an average of 400*000 relief workers next year, and ctfsmissing 350,000. The W.P.A. programme is now designed, first, to train as many as possible needy unemplojied, and finding jobs for them as soon a$ possible; secondly, to aid the war efflort through projects of military value; and, thirdly, to relieve unemployed areas where war production has nob yet provided jobs.