WAR PRODUCTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 134, 4 December 1944, Page 6

WAR PRODUCTION

SITUATION IN AMERICA

. RUGBY, December 2 America is faced with a war production situation jn which, accordinff to Lieutenant-General b/b. SWrvell commanding .general of. the United States Army Service of Supply "the utmost will fee required if we are to contmue to supply our troops on the fighting fronts with all they need." . General Somervell, who was speakthft mw W Yor£ said: "* happens that right now American industry is not keeping up with the current demands of our fighting men in 40 per cent, of tne major items on the programme. Seventeen per cent of these are in critically short supply. . "I am concerned that you may be so deeply engrossed in post-war planning that you are not giving all the thought you should give to current action." He appealed to management and labour to return "to that sense of urgency we knew, early in the war," and to keep at the job of production for war till the last German and the last Japanese had surrendered. In an effort to increase the output of munitions to meet the increased military needs the Government has suspended for 90 days authorisations for civilian reconversion production in 103 areas where there is an acute labour shortage, says the United Press. .This action follows a recent warning by the Director of War Mobilisation, Judge Byrnes, that he would suspend all new civilian production if the man-power shortages were not remedied within ■ a reasonable .time. However, 400,000,000 dollars' worth of non-military production authorised in the past four months will probably not be affected.