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TIME'S informant is apparently unaware that "the usefulness and practicability of a wide farming out of work has long been exemplified in the normal peacetime organization of the automobile industry." (So stated OPM Labor Division in Farming Out Bulletin...
...SPAB has turned out to be just another feeble tentacle of the hydra-like monster. Donald Nelson, its executive director, has no vote in its councils. Moreover, Nelson has two conflicting jobs. As SPAB director he is boss of William Knudsen's Office of Pro duction Management. As OPM's priorities director, he is Knudsen's hired hand...
Nobody knows who is really the boss. Nobody knows where authority begins and ends among the various defense agencies: SPAB, OPM, Treasury, Agriculture, Economic Defense Board. As for the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission-only agencies empowered to spend defense money-they go their own sweet, independent way. Most defense experts think the Army and Navy by their old-fashioned procurement policies are sabotaging subcontracting and plant conversion. But nobody does anything about...
...weeks ago, SPAB voted to investigate and speed up the aluminum expansion which OPM announced last July, and for which all the contracts are not yet signed. OPM's William Knudsen conferred with Jesse Jones (whose lending powers make him a completely independent, one-man defense agency), reported simply that the expansion was moving as fast as possible. No further action was taken...
Monroe M. Sweeland, member of the Labor Division of OPM, has been working for more than a month in Boston in an effort to bring together representatives of all branches of labor engaged in national defense work for the conference...