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...salary of $7,500 as New York Social Security Director (TIME, May 18, 1942). Despite the outraged cries of Congressmen, she went right on collecting for her public & private advice on labor. But when she took over the WMC job, she dropped private advising, concentrated on a solution for Buffalo's manpower muddle. The solution: the Buffalo, or "controlled referral" plan...
...Buffalo Plan. The plan was simple. It did with labor what WPB had long done with materials. Labor priorities were set up through a WMC Labor Priorities Committee for all plants in the Buffalo area. This committee, through the United States Employment Service, by two methods funneled all available men into plants where they were most needed: 1) unemployed men could get jobs only by going to plants designated by USES; 2) those with jobs could shift only with permission of their employers or WMC. Many an employer with a low labor priority balked. Organized labor promptly branded it "labor...
...workers they need, are back on production schedules. Airplane plants, which are usually on a cost-plus basis and thus might as well hoard labor, since Uncle Sam pays the bill, learned to get along with fewer workers, and to utilize them better. Neither management nor labor likes the Buffalo plan in principle. Both still writhe under its straitjacketing. But few will not admit that the plan has worked...
...West Coast Plan. Last week Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes clamped the Buffalo plan - with modifications -onto five West Coast areas: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Portland. There the manpower shortage has forced a slow scaling down of U.S. plane production goals, and threatens to knock them on the head in 1944 - despite occasional optimistic WPB estimates...
...shortage is needlessly complicated by having labor and production balanced by two committees, one run by WPB, one by WMC. But Byrnes, following recommendations by Bernard Baruch (see p. 19), gave them a potent weapon lacking in Buffalo-authority to cancel less essential contracts, if necessary, to create a labor pool and thus funnel the workers into the top priority industry-aircraft...