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) bidder, C. 1. 0. Will Demand $1 Raise, Union Shop At General Motors Six-Point Program Drawn For Presentation at * Contract Negotiations By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Feb. 5—The United Automobile Workers (C. I. O.) an- nounced today the union had drawn up six demands, including & union shop clause and a $1 daily wage in- crease, for submission to General Motors Corp. in forthcoming wage negotiations. The proposals, according to Walter P. Reuther, director of the union’s G. M. department, will be acted on Saturday and Sunday by the G. M. council, representing 190,000 work- ers in 90 corporation plants. They are: o 1. A wage increase of $1 & or all employes, including provision for readjustment every three months based on living costs in major auto- motive manufacturing centers. 2. A union shop provision whereby all employes covered by the agree- ment shall become members of the union and remain in good standing as a condition of employment. New employes are to become ‘members within 30 days after date of employ- ment. Seniority Right Revisions. 3. Revision of seniority provisions “which will make for maximum use of the labor supply in national de- fense and at the same time protect seniority rights.” . 4. Extension of powers of the im- partial umpire to permit him to rule on and interpret all contl:pct provi- sions. 5. The corporation to grant all em- ployes on the seniority list a $100 *Defense savings bond in lieu of va- cation with pay. 6. Establishment of union plant defense and anti-sabotage commit- tees in all plants. Under terms of the union’s agree- ment with Genergl Motors, which expires in April, either party may reopen negotiations on 60 days’ notice. ‘Wage Increases Offset. Mr. Reuther said that wage in- creases obtained a year ago by the U. A. W-C. 1. O. in corporation plants and amounting to 10 c_ents an hour “have been offset entirely by rising lving costs.”™ | As for the union shop demand, Mr. Reuther said: “The U. A. W.-C. I. O. has demon- strated that it is a responsible union and General Motors has had stable labor relations because of this union. “Granting of the union shop also would make possible for the union to concentrate on the war effort * * * if the union is given complete union | security, we can devote our energies | to the successful prosecution of the | war.” | No Fear for Majority. A union spokesman said the pro- posal for a union shop was not predi- cated on any fear that the union’s| numerical majority in General Mo- tors plants would be erased by addi- tional workers employed as a result of the corporation’s war expansion. The spokesman said he did not doubt that new employes would adopt the union in the same propor- tion that present employes have. The union ezpresentative said that the average current basic wage rate in various assembly plants in the country was $1.10 an hour. . The average basic wage rate in principal | manufacturing plants was said by the union to te $1.13 an hour. | Rowe Stresses Importance | 0f Work Done at Rio Dr. Leo S. Rowe, director general of the Pan-American Union, com- menting today on some of the less publicized achievements of the re- cent Rio conference, emphasized the importance of the decision to estab- lish a commission on continental defense at Washington. The resolution providing for this commission, to be composed of mili- tary and naval representatives of the American republics, is out- standing, Dr. Rowe said. He added: “Quite as important as this mili- tary measure are the many resolu- tions providing for the protection of the economic and financial structure of the countries which are members of the Pan-American Union. “The plans thus formulated are destined to have far-reaching in- fluence both on the present and the future relations of the American republics. They tend to set up an American political and economic system prepared to withstand the shock both of the war and the post- ‘war periods.” Mass Will Be Offered In Memory of Priest A solemn requiem mass will be sung at 10 am. Saturday in St. Stephen’s Church, Pennsylvania av- enue and Twenty-fifth stfeet N.W., for the Rev. George B. Harrington, for 14 years pastor of the church, who died January 7. The “month’s mind mass” will be offered by the Rev. Alonzo J. Olds, pastor of St. Augustine’s Church, assisted by the Rev. Joseph J. Leary, director of the League of the Little Flower and pastor of St. Louis’ Church, Clarksville, Md., dea- con, and the Rev. George F. Shank of St. Edward’s Church, Baltimore, subdeacon. Msgr. Edward P. McAdams, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, will preach. The Rev. Niles T. Welch, adminis- trator of St. Stephen’s, is in charge of arrangements. House Approves Bill To Compensate Bidder BY tbe Associated Press. The House has passed a bill to pay the National Heating Co. of the District $8,613.93 for losses resulting from what the concern said was a typographical error in submitting a bid for construction of a central heating plant at Langley Field, Va. ‘The company bid $33,900 on the Job, neglecting to include $10,000 for the price of a boiler. The committee Teported the payment of $8,613.93 ‘would compensate the company only for its actual loss on the contract, making the total cost to the Gov- ernment $42,513.93, about $3,000 less coast. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1942. Maximup Ceilings - | Jap Navy Chief, as Aide Here, Laid Fifth-Colamn Groundwork FLIGHT FROM PENANG—Swept down the coast by the Japanese invasion tide, refugees arrive at Ipoh Station after fleeing their homes in and about Penang Island, on the Western Malay Children remained in the railroad ecar. Women gather on the station platform and throng to discuss the next move on their trek. —A. P. Wirephoto from Paramount News. fields on their 75-mile tryouts be- fore they are turned over to the Army. This is one way, and the simplest, to solve the tank construction prob- lem—build a brand-new factory with brand-new equipment from the ground up. Any existing factory, it is almost certain, is ill-adapted for the job. Fortunately the Chrys- ler Corp. got its tank order early, before Dukerque. The pattern of the tank did not fit into the ma- chinery of any of its existing plants and there was no occasion at the time to cause the major disruption in normal automobile construction and in employment which a rear- rangement would have involved. Machines Made to Make Parts. So the tank was treated as an entirely new product with no rela- tion to the automobile. Chrysler engineers broke down the models furnished them into their smdllest individual parts. A pattern of every part was made in wood, by hand. The mechanical engineers devised a machine to make each part so precisely that all of them would fall together on the assembly line. The sort of plant was planned and erected which would hold most con- veniently the new machinery. The result is that here tanks are being put out “on the line.” The output is not so fast as would be that of automobiles with the same kind of setup. Tank parts are slower and more difficult to handle. Hopes of tanks coming from an as- sembly line at the rate of hundreds a day, as Chryslers used to roll in pre-war days, are fantastic, the en- gineers claim. But only by apply- ing the same technique can there be any hope of quantity produc- tion of what has been essentially a handmade article. In the Chrysler procedure, the tank parts have been strictly stand- ardized. The armor plate comes from the steel foundry in almost the.precise sizes needed to make up the body. Many of the regular automobile workers have been trained for the new jobs, especially the difficult armor plate working jobs. Wherever possible, designs have been simplified. Educates Engineers. The job has provided a valuable education for the engineers and mechanics for the bigger task ahead, when all their plants will be turned over to making war materials for the United States. But conversion of an existing plant into a war fac- COLONIAL ANTHRACITE COAL The Finest Money Can Buy * DIAL NAT. 5178 than the bid of the second lowest | COAL—FUEL OIL—OIL BURNERS American Industry Goes to War— Special Chrysler Plant Rolls Out Production-Line Tanks Measure of Quantity Output Achieved; Other Factories Being Converted for War (Fifth of a Series.) By THOMAS R. HENRY, Star Staft Correspondent. DETROIT, Feb. 5—Into one end of an enormous factory go sheets of armor plate. Out of the other end come olive drab tanks —the way automobiles used to come out of auto factories. This is the gigantic Chrysler Corp.’s most spectacular con- tribution to war armaments to date. was open country. Now, all night long, the fearsome tanks are being driven about the woods and ¢——""+-+-—-—70o——-—-—r A few months ago the site tory in many ways is a more dif- ficult job than building a new one. All that is saved is a little time in building construction and, as one Chrysler executive expressed fit, “what are four walls?” Now the last passenger automo- biles are coming from the assembly line and the machinery which produced them is being dismantled and stored. The corporation faces the same problems as do the other major automobile manufacturers— designing and obtaining delivery on new machinery, training workers in the jobs of operating them. The engineers think they have mastered the job, some idea of the magnitude of which may be had from the fact that there are 3,500 blueprints, weighing 186 pounds, for one tank model. The actual construction work, they insist, has just started, with the 8,000 new tools required mostly in place. Other War Material. * ‘The regular Chrysler factories will make some tank parts. In ad- dition to tanks, aircraft parts, anti- aircraft guns and all sorts of Army trucks and vehicles will take the place of passenger cars on the pro- duction lines. The orders already placed amount to hundreds of mil- lions of dollars. For a good many of the corpora- tion’s 80,000 employes, the conver- sion will mean hard times for a while. It will be necessary to lay off some employes for a short period while the new machines are be- ing made and installed. So far as possible, however, the old ma- chines are being adapted to new purposes and the corporation’s en- gineers have made some clever adaptations of instruments designed to make automobile parts into tools for gun and shell parts. Efforts are being made, so far as possible, to obtain work which will fit the machines. In the end, although there may be some switching of jobs, Chrysler executives are confident that every employe will be taken care of in the war program and that it will be necessary to hire and train many women machine operators. Gelfing Up Nighis MakesManyFeel Oid Do you feel older than you ars or suffer from op Bixache, War Profits (Continued From Pirst Page.) Carpenter said, “that for the entire period from September, 1940, until April, 1941, all of these tools were purchased by Remington with its own money and for its British and commercial production; so that if the prices pald were high, the money came out of Remington's own pocket.” Meanwhile, the story of ship con- tract profits that were considered excessive even®by a representative of the builder was in the records of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee following testimony before it yes- terday. J. E. Barnes, Washington legal representative for Todd Shipyards |Corp., told the committee that his company “had no right to profit” on war business, and urged Congress to reflaim by taxes certain earnings he said were excessive. His testimony prompted a demand by Sensator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir- ginia for an investigation “to get to the bottom” of responsibility for the profits being made by Todd. Senator Byzd contended that the witness had failed to give sufficiently ‘“correct and detailed information to the committee.” There were two other war profits developments yesterday: Chairman Walsh of the Naval Com- mittee proposed legislation which would punish war contractors who defrauded the Government, by de- priving them of citizenship, in ad- dition to providing a fine and im- prisonment. Attorney General Biddle an- nounced creation of a war frauds unit in the Justic Department under the direction of Fowler Hamilton, a special assistant to the Attorney General, to make a “searching study” of complaints of collusive bidding, false representation by con- tractors, or profiteering. Mr. Biddle said the unit would prosecute those guilty when such ac- tion was justified and would keep the public informed when com- plaints were unfounded. Mr. Barnes appeared before the KODAK FILM 6 or 8 Expesure 5c C. PRINTED. Any Size— Rell. 1112 and 1346 G St. N.W. 6th & N. Y. Avenue N. 3rd and H Streets N.E. “Serving the Washington Public for Orer 37 Years” ON ALL MAKES ON OUR, In 28 Rebt Cases Fixed by Cogswell Landlords’ Request for Increases; Granted In All but Two Rent Administrator Robert P. Cogswell fixed maximum’ rent ceil- ings in 28 cases today, and in all but two approved landlords’ requests for increases. The tenant consented to the change in each case. In two of the petitions, the land- lord asked that the rents be lowered due to the fact furniture had been removed from the units since Janu- ary 1, 1941, freezing date of the control law for rents and services. All but one of the cases, including the two involving decreases, were decided in favor of H. Grady Gore, 2100 Massachusetts avenue N.W., who represented the owners of four apartment buildings. The apart- ments are the Drury, 3121 Mount Pleasant street N.W.; Ritz, 1631 Buclid street NW.; Stanley Arms, 1125 Twelfth street N. and a building at 921 Nineteenth street N.W. In the other case, Herbert S. Ward, Tower Building, was given permis- sion to raise the rent of a property at 1814 Newton street N.W. from $65 to $110 a month. Mr. Ward stated the property was in “deplor- able shape” when he acquired it last June, and that he spent $1200 in renovating it. All cases reported today were handled through use of special “con- sent forms” which Mr. Cogswell drew up to expedite cases where there is no conflict between landlord and tenant. Rent increases ranging from $2.50 to $25 & month were approved in the cases handled by Mr. Gore. In 15 of the 27 petitions, the apArtments had been changed from unfurnished on the freezing date to furnished. Smaller increases were allowed in the other cases which involved slight remodeling. Senate committee to answer testi- mony recently given before it by Chairman Truman of the Senate Defense Committee, but members questioned him closely on all phases of his company's business. ‘The witness contended that Sena- tor Truman had confused his (Barnes’) testimony about “outrage- ous” profits in the first World War with profits in the current war, but at the same time acknowledged that on some contracts those of 1940-42 had been “excessive” also. Pressed by Senator Gillette, Demo- crat, of Iowa, to say who was to be blamed for this condition, Mr. Barnes said he would not admit that any one could be blamed for what had happened, but told the com- mittee: “The blame will be on you men in Congress if you don't get that money back into the Treasury by taxes in some way.” Mr. Barnes said he regarded con- tracts for the first few ships the company built under the defense |n, program as providing “excessive” profits, but said these early contracts had been adjusted, and that on some ships now under contract the profit after taxes would be no more than seven-eighths of 1 per cent. He testified that a “fair analysis” would show that the company made “ground 17 or 18 per cent” on its | GOLD invested capital last year. “Seventeen per cent is high—sure it is,” he told the committee. However, he added, that taxes would bite into earnings; that the company probably would pay $8,000,- 000 in income taxes this year. Byrd Says Public Is “Misled.” Senator Byrd, contending the pub- lic had been “misled” about war profits because they were quoted in relation to volume of business in- stead of invested capital, asserted that a reasonable profit should be based on investment return, not on the amount of the contract. He asserted that Mr. Barnes' testi- mony showed Todd had an invest- ment of $40,000,000; that its Gov- ernment business would be $200,000,~ 000 this year; that profits would be 10 per cent of the gross business, producing a return of 50 per cent on the investment in addition to interest. Mr. Barnes disputed this conclu- sion, asserting that 10 per cent of the cost was the most the company could make on a ship contract and that on many jobs profits would b2 much lower. See us ond save from 10% to 25% on latest mode! spinets, grands, consoles, small uprights of standard makes. Cosh or terms. Also bargains in used pianos—uprights, $25 to $75; spinets, $125 up; grands, $195 up. We are ex- clusive local ogents for Cable= Nelson, Everett and other fine pianos. PIANOS FOR RENT « « . PHONE REPUBLIC 1590. Gas o What U. S. Officers Recall Yamamoto’s Cunning; Poker Skill Cited in H"ort's Report peace ington, is familiar with the Capital of the United States. Not so many years ago, Capt. Isoroku Yamamoto was stationed here as naval attache at the Japanese Embassy and was lavishly en- tertaining American naval officers and their wives. Therehave been many Jap- anese naval at- 3 taches who en- Admiral Yamamets. lavishly, but Yamamoto was especially remembered for the after-dinner diversions he offered. He would don a ceremonial kimeno and demonstrate his skill in the del- icate art of Japanese brush print. The slender hands would glide out of brocaded sleeves and produce mysterious looking characters with incredible rapidity. Yamamoto was very proud of his mastery of the difficult art of Japanese calligraphy and would present mementos of his work to the ladies present. ‘The smiling host, at the moment of presentation, would lisp the mes- sage of friendship he had flicked onto paper. Some Were Skeptical. Some of the American officers ‘who went to Yamamoto’s house sus- pected that he had other skills be- sides that of Japanese character writing. Others found it hard to believe that so much hospitalify and good will could be mixed up with de- ceit. Many of them concurred in the comfortable belief that it did not matter much which theory about the “little Jap” was correct. Now they all agree that their artistic friend of the early thirties is a “tough proposition” One of the first American naval officers to understand that the loyalty of a Jepanese toward his own country could withstand the hospitality of Washington was small, wiry Ad- miral Thomas Hart, present com- mander of the Asiatic Fleet. 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In the file of the Navy Department, however, is a long and complimen- report on the caliber and quality of Admiral Ernest King's opposite number, Admiral Yamamoto. One of the most telling comments in the personality sketch of the artistic Jap- anese naval officer is th Hart: “Yamamoto is the outstanding Japanese naval officer because he plays poker so well. He knows when to take a chance, but never bluffs without a pair in hand.” (Reloased by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Princess Offers Home In Hawaii to U. S. O. B3 the Associated + HONOLULU, Feb. 5. Abigall Kawananakoa, one of the last representatives of Hawailian royalty, offered her spacious coun- try home near Honolulu yesterday to the United Service tions for use as a rest and recreation cen- ter for service men. Choose from the largest selection in the city— grands, spinets, consoles and uprights of many fine makes. Very reasonable rates payable monthly. Telephone NAtional 3223 JORDAN'S Corner 13th & G Sts. 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