U.S. WAR EFFORT

Grey River Argus, 19 March 1942, Page 5

U.S. WAR EFFORT

40-HOUR WEEK

War Profit Limit

“OPEN SHOP” TO BE RETAINED

(Rec. 7.15) NEW YORK, March 17. A Washington message states that legislation has been introduced in Congress to suspend all laws and contracts providing for a 40-hour week for the duration of the war. The measure provides also for abolishing the closed union shop. The limiting of industrial profits on large defence orders to six per cent, is a further measure introduced.

STRIKES TO BE CUT OUT.

24-HOUR FACTORY DAY

(Rec. 11.40). WASHINGTON,

March 17.

President Roosevelt conferred with , the Labour War Board, and Mr. W. Green, President of the American Federation of Labpur, and it was agreed that wage rates and standards would be fixed, without a resort to strikes or an interruption to production, by . three methods, namely, collective bargaining, conciliation, ot mediation, or by the National War Labour Board. The A.F.L. President, Mr. Green, said it was agreed that a forty-hour-week be recognised as a standard: that time and a half be' paid for overtime, and double time for Sundays. It also was agreed that continuous operation be approved, and be recommended by Labour. These steps would make possible work in defence factories for twenty-four hours a day. U.S.A. Army Ballot WASHINGTON, March 17. The third draft lottery in 17 months and the first in the present war, takes place to-night, when 1,650,000 men aged from 20 to 21, and 7,350,000 older men up to 44, will be selected. Seventeen million men were registered for the two previous lotteries, and these men are either in service; have been deferred, or are not vet classified. Officials declared that it would be possible to create an army of 8,000,000 from men between 20 and 44 years. Espionage TWO MEN PLEAD GUILTY (Rec. 7.5) NEW~ YORK, March 17. ■Peter Donay, a United States soldier, and Richard Freundt, a naturalised German citizen, pleaded guilty in the Federal Court to charges ot espionage, thus becoming the first spies to face possible death sentences since the United States entered the war. The men were accused of sending military defence information to Germany. ATLANTIC NAVAL COMMANDS. (Rec. 1.0.) WASHINGTON, Mar. 17. The Navy Department announced that Rear-Admiral Adolphus Andrews has been assigned to the exclusive duty as Commander of the U.S. Eastern Sea Frontier. He is being replaced by Rear-Admiral Edward J. Maryuart, who will retain his present duties as Commander of the Navy Yard at New York.