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...Sidney Hillman announced last week a plan to end weekend "blackouts" in the defense industry, which President Roosevelt recently deplored. The Hillman plan was to put some industries on a four-shift, 160-hour week, rotating shifts and letting all share Saturday and Sunday overtime pay. The remaining eight hours of the week would be used for overhauling and repairing machines...
...problem," the President told OPM's Knudsen-Hillman last week, "is to see to it that there is no idle critical machine in the United States. The goal should be to work these machines 24 hours a day and seven days a week...
...been working overtime: an average of 12½ hours a week. Since no employer would pay out that much overtime if he could help it, this was a sure sign that the long-expected labor bottleneck was now a potent fact. Immediately after the President's statement, Knudsen-Hillman asked industry workmen to substitute bonuses for vacations in defense plants this summer. Draft headquarters disclosed that the classification of skilled workmen would be re-examined and that some men already in the Army might be transferred to factories...
Fischer did not speak much Russian when he went to Russia. But on the train he met Sidney Hillman. The future co-director of OPM (a native who speaks Russian) was in Russia reconditioning clothing factories, trying to teach the Bolsheviks how to run them...
...Office for Emergency Management (an alias for two men, Franklin Roosevelt and his "anonymous" assistant, William H. McReynolds) became the superbody of defense administration. Immediately under it is the Hopkins group, plus the War Cabinet. OEM's physical workshop was the Knudsen-Hillman OPM. The defense program's setup had been reshuffled once more-and, the U.S. hoped, for the last time. Something more than promises must be given Great Britain-and soon. Yet OPM's William Knudsen blandly told the Senate committee investigating defense: "I don't know [whether we could supply the whole world...