ALL OUT TO WIN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 98, 25 March 1942, Page 5

ALL OUT TO WIN

UNITED STATES LABOUR. WASHINGTON, March 23. “American workers dare do no less than meet the challenge of the old slavery with courage, energy and dcj termination that nothing shall intcr- | rupt the country’s march to victory | over the Nazis and Japanese,” said j President Roosevelt addressing leaders of the Congress of industrial Organisation. “In recent years,” added Mr Roosevelt, “the workers in America’s great industries h;~,ve gained new privileges and reaffirmed old rights. To-day all those rights and' privileges arc being tested by fire. If we lose the war then all the rest of our American liberties will be lost. Only victory can protect our freedom. “If the freedom of any of usis lost the freedom of all is lost. AVc arc] I learning in the hard days of war what] iis sometimes overlooked in the easy i I days of peace—that liberty and free-: dom belong only to men and women j who earn them. This a special point] for organised labour, for the leaders, of the men and women in the ranks of : our free workers can give to victory: far more than the Axis taskmasters | can ever wring from the unwilling | muscles of the regimented toilers of i Europe and Japan.” j Labour must, suspend for the dura-I lion of the war the privilege of double; pay for Sunday and. holiday work, ] said the chairman of the War Produc- j tiou Board (Mr Donald Nelson) ad- ! dressing the meeting. “\\c are mov- j ing as fast as wo can toward the i seven-day, three-shift operation of our i basic war industries,” he added. j “The principle that a man should i regularly have the seventh day off and j receive overtime pay if an emergency | forces him to work on that seventh j day is perfectly sound, but where seventh day does not fall on a Sunday j or holiday I don’t think work on Sun-| days and holidays in wartime deserves; extra pay.” . ] The C. 1.0. leaders answered Prcsi-,

I dent Roosevelt with a unanimous resolution reaffirming their policy ol no 1 1 strikes for the duration. They promj iscd that ‘'the herculean efforts of the 1 workers will produce the! tanks, acroI planes, guns and ships ...necessary lor jan immediate offensive against the | Axis Powers to achieve victory in “ 11942.” BONUSES AND AVAR CONTRACTS. I Harry Yoxtheimer, a former Army j Air Corps employee, told the House | Naval Affairs Committee, that alj though he joined the war contracting I firm of Jack and Heintz only last No? | vember ho had received 12,320 dollars | in ban uses, and his salary was raised from 3600 dollars to 4800 a year. Yoxtheimer said the first bonus of ,10.000 dollars came as a complete surprise. He admitted the bonuses were added to the cost of trio article manufactured. He also admitted that he j knew the higher cost meant less in excess profit taxes which the firm would have to pay. AYilliam Jack, president of the firm, testified that he received 23,000 dollars in salary in 1940, but the board of directors raised it to 100,000 dollars last year. He said lie received an | additional 45,845 dollars in bonuses in 1.941. Adelina Bowman, private secretary to Jack, said her salary .and bonuses in 1941 totalled 39.356 dollars and received 18.295 dollars tins year. Edmund Toland, committee counsel, said tho firm paid bonuses of 494,590 dollars in 1941. That money all came from the United States Government. Air Toland said the company held an exclusive patent on aeroplane starters and had refused' to reduce the price, which was GOO dollars, though the j books indicated- that its cost was 272 j dollars. All United States doctors, dentists and veterinarians will receive questionnaires next week to determine their place in the war effort. The Army alone needs 16.000 physicians l>y December I. The Navy needs 3000. As far as possible, the commissioning of medical men will be kept on a voluntary basis.