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Jimmy Byrnes. The President also set up a new joint Army & Navy production-survey committee, which henceforth will take all major military and production-supply problems directly to Jimmy Byrnes, Czar of the Office of War Mobilization. This meant: 1) a new further bypassing of WPB's ineffective boss Donald M. Nelson, who was speechmaking last week in London; 2) confirmation of Byrnes as the final authority on keying war production to civilian economy...
...WPB has limited purchases to 25 shells, but farmers have priority on the first ammunition released for civilian use since June 1942 and hunters will be lucky to find their quotas. Most will rely on hoarded ammunition. When that is gone, the only weapons will be the bow & arrow and the slingshot. This season may be the last for the duration...
...Buffalo Plan. The plan was simple. It did with labor what WPB had long done with materials. Labor priorities were set up through a WMC Labor Priorities Committee for all plants in the Buffalo area. This committee, through the United States Employment Service, by two methods funneled all available men into plants where they were most needed: 1) unemployed men could get jobs only by going to plants designated by USES; 2) those with jobs could shift only with permission of their employers or WMC. Many an employer with a low labor priority balked. Organized labor promptly branded it "labor...
...Byrnes clamped the Buffalo plan - with modifications -onto five West Coast areas: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Portland. There the manpower shortage has forced a slow scaling down of U.S. plane production goals, and threatens to knock them on the head in 1944 - despite occasional optimistic WPB estimates...
...shortage is needlessly complicated by having labor and production balanced by two committees, one run by WPB, one by WMC. But Byrnes, following recommendations by Bernard Baruch (see p. 19), gave them a potent weapon lacking in Buffalo-authority to cancel less essential contracts, if necessary, to create a labor pool and thus funnel the workers into the top priority industry-aircraft...