Word: opm
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...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...
...first was the statistical meaning of an announcement of OPM's William Knudsen, late a motormaker himself, that each company in the nation's No. 1 consumer industry had agreed to cut 1942 production by one-fifth. The second came from an announcement by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., head of General Motors and top spokesman for his industry, that G.M. planned no new models for the 1943 season. Other manufacturers were expected to follow: the 1942 models that come out late this summer will be the standard U.S. cars for the duration...
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...