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...Bill Knudsen got some of the orders accepted-but by no means all. Even after six months of gradually decreasing automobile quotas, long months when it was clear that conversion must come, OPM still had no plan for conversion, still did not know who could or would make what. The best Bill Knudsen could do at this late date was try to auction off the orders, hit or miss...
After dinner the committee split into armed camps. The industrialists went off with Knudsen. The labor men went off with OPM's Sidney Hillman. For two hours they passed notes back & forth, then adjourned for the night to let tempers cool...
Next day the note-passing continued. Finally Knudsen and Hillman worked out a wishy-washy compromise which settled nothing. The big committee was disbanded. In its place was formed a subcommittee of three management and three labor men, with towering, pipe-smoking Cyrus Ching, industrial-relations director of United States Rubber Co. and a member of the old National Defense Mediation Board, as neutral chairman. To this group 0PM gave power to "assist" in conversion...
...immediate and inevitable result of this lack of authority in the Government has been a dismal quarrel between the manufacturers and the C.I.O. This quarrel has exploded because in fact the Government, as represented by the weak voices of Mr. Knudsen and Mr. Hillman and the procurement agencies, was standing by trying to umpire when its duty was to plan and command...
...months ago, said Eleanor Roosevelt indignantly, she had seen that conversion of the automobile industry would throw thousands of people out of work in Detroit. She went to Messrs. Knudsen & Hillman and urged that OPM start training autoworkers as workers on airplane parts. Said she: "Mr. Knudsen looked at me like a great big benevolent bear as if to say, 'Now, Mrs. Roosevelt, don't let's get excited...