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...called it the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply: OPACS. He established it parallel to and not under OPM, with its chief equal to Knudsen-hillman...
...Henderson appointment represents a major triumph for Baruch. For months the man who armed America in 1918 has boiled because nobody in OPM bothered to read the record of his War Industries Board. Baruch considers Henderson almost the only competent student of World...
First big management-union agreement to end labor pirating, labor shifting and strikes in defense industries hard-pressed for skilled workers was being put through ast week under OPM auspices. The industry : West Coast shipbuilding, where eleven mushrooming private yards are busy on $667,000,000 in contracts...
...fields. Precious man-hours were wasted traveling from yard to yard on West Coast highways. If shipbuilding's West Coast labor market was near chaos with 20,000 workers employed now, what would it be by late 1942, when the industry expects to have 70,000 employes? What OPM wanted to do was avert an explosion, not try to pick up the pieces afterward. Out to the West Coast went bald, spectacled Isador Lubin, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, now on leave as deputy to Sidney Hillman in defense. Last fortnight Lubin returned with a plan that...
Finally, the agreement contained this key provision: no strikes or lockouts for the next two years. OPM, getting ready to urge the plan on management and labor in other great shipbuilding districts, was sure Lubin had an effective scheme to keep the yards launching ships instead of trouble. Once shipbuilding's labor market is pegged, OPM will use the Lubin plan as a model for agreements to stabilize labor conditions in other fields...