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...union security" (by which a company agrees to nurture, sometimes encourage, union membership). In only one instance has it recommended a closed shop: the Bethlehem Shipbuilding case. Its justification: the other 38 shipbuilding firms on the West Coast had already agreed to the closed shop provision of an OPM master contract. In every instance, except one, industrialist members of the panel sitting on the case were in full accord. The exception: Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock...
...nations, and the soaring rate of consumption in the U.S. (a record 618,592 tons last year, 425,000 tons in the first half of this year). But domestic consumption has been under strict control since June, when Rubber Reserve assumed a monopoly over all U.S. imports. Same month OPM worked out manufacturing quotas. Last week July consumption figures were announced as 68,653 tons-19.1% below June...
...long ago as last April, OPM had told radio manufacturers, with no trimmings, to count on little or no magnesium, aluminum, other scarce materials. Their own leaders said the same, warned them to "get out and dig" for defense business to survive (TIME, June 23). The radiomakers paid good heed. Already they are about 25% engaged in defense work (ammunition and machine-gun parts, wartime radio devices, including the "walky-talky," a two-way battery set for field...
...Geddes expects his industry to be 75% occupied with defense. In the meantime, its good-soldierliness had caused OPM and OPACS to give it enough materials to keep going while the changeover takes place. The manufacturers were reconciled to making only 2,500,000 sets for the civilian market next year (v. 11,600,000 in 1940). They began "upgrading" sets in quality and price, to cut down demand, increase longevity (and unit profits...
Last week a bomb dropped on this comparative industrial paradise. OPM still remained, precariously, in the "no squawks" category, but OPACS was now, according to one radio bigwig, "a bunch of goddam, nitwitted, half-baked college graduates." Reason: a new civilian allocation order for plastics raw materials (induced by an OPM priorities order on formaldehyde, other chemicals, and their synthetic resins). The order eliminated their use for radio cabinets, 40% of which are now made of plastics...