Charge Ford Bomber Plant As Huge Failure
DETROIT, September 2G
Letters signed by union leaders of 35,000 workers at the Ford Willowrun bomber plant charged that the plant was “one of the outstanding failures of this war. The company has fallen down in the final assembly of planes and has never been able to recruit enough workers to operate the plant at top of efficiency.” They added that the management was constructing an additional large building without the prospect of adequate manpower. The company’s labour relations policy also had retarded production and the company almost from the start had been shipping a great many knocked down planes to other plants for final assembly, because its own assembly departments could not match production of its manufacturing and preliminary assemblies. The letter, addressed to President Roosevelt and Messrs Stimson and Truman asked for immediate investigation.
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Northern Advocate, 27 September 1943, Page 2
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