Sept. 4. The National War Labor Board denied the request of the Clifton-Morenci Metal Trades Council, A. F. of L. (Morenci, Ariz.), that it nullify the decision of the National Labor Relations Board which certifed the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, CIO, as the exclusive bargaining agent for the approximately 2.000 employees at the mine of the Phelps Dodge Corporation. (For summary of the War Labor Board's decision, see page 964, this issue. (Source: Office of War Information, National War Labor Board, B-959.) Sept. 7. The Director of Economic Stabilization authorized the National War Labor Board to make wage adjustments without his approval in the laundry industry (even though price increases would be neces sitated) according to a 3-point formula: (1) Substandard wage rates may be raised to the minimum level set by the regional board; (2) increases may be granted for job classifications between this minimum level and one 30 cents higher, in order to maintain minimum differentials in cents per hour between immediately interrelated job classifications; (3) wage rates at or above a point 30 cents an hour higher than the regional substandard minimum hourly rate may be increased to the minima of comparable job classifications in the region. (Source: Office of War Information, National War Labor Board, Office of Price Administration, OWI-2495 and B-978.) Sept. 7. Three Government agencies (War Manpower Commission, Department of Labor, and Federal Security Agency) issued a joint statement of policies and standards for guidance of urban communities in establishing part-time school and work programs (see page 941, this issue). (Source: Office of War Information, War Manpower Commission. PM-4442.) Sept. 10. The National War Labor Board made public a unanimous statement clarifying the circumstances under which it will review, on its merits. the award of an arbitrator and the extent of such review (see page 935, this issue). (Source: Office of War Information, National War Labor Board, B-970.) Sept. 13. The General Manager of OPA announced that a new subsidy program, in its final stages of preparation, would decrease the cost of living an additional 2.3 percent by lowering the prices of 7 foods-apples, oranges, onions, potatoes, lard, vegetable oils, and peanut butter. (Source: Progress Report on the OPA Reorganization Program from July 26 to September 11, 1943 (mimeographed), September 13, 1943.) Sept. 13. The National War Labor Board authorized the General Steel Castings Corporation (Granite City, Ill.) to grant a bonus to employees who work on the sixth and seventh days of a workweek and are compelled by the Illinois One-Day-Rest-in-Seven Law to take off 1 day during the first part of the week. The bonus will be paid on the basis of considering the work on the sixth and seventh day as overtime (with deduction of absence time during the week), and is subject to certification by the Secretary of Labor that it is not in conflict with Executive Order No. 9240. (Source: Office of War Information, National War Labor Board, B-998.) Sept. 18. The Chairman of the War Production Board reissued Directive No. 2, Amended. (For provisions of this basic document controlling procurement policies of all war agencies see page 933, this issue.) (Source: Office of War Information, War Production Board, WPB4267.) Sept. 22. The National War Labor Board announced the establishment of an Airframe Panel with headquarters in Washington, D. C., and with jurisdiction over both wage and nonwage issues when a part of the wage dispute. On August 20, the Board had defined the airframe industry and approved a procedure for handling airframe cases. (Source: Office of War Information, National War Labor Board, B-997.) Sept. 23. The President, by Executive order, established a Special Emergency Board of three members, from the National Railway Labor Panel, to report to him on or before October 15 what, if any, wage adjustments should be made, for employees of the Pacific Electric Railway Co. of Los Angeles. (Source: The White House, Executive Order of September 23, 1943.) Sept. 24. The President announced the creation by the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Joint Production Survey Committee, to work closely and constantly with representatives of the Office of War Mobilization "in the endeavor to promote economies in the use of material and manpower in the over-all production program." (Source: The White House, Statement by the President, September 24, 1943.) Sept. 25. The 3-man Emergency Board of the National Railway Labor Panelappointed May 31, 1943, to investigate the wage dispute of more than 300,000 train and engine service employees throughout the country-denied their demands for an increase of 30 percent or $3 per day. The Board held that though the employees in this dispute had made out a strong case for a wage increase to correct gross inequities, no substandards of living were involved in the dispute, and that the employees should be granted such increase as may be justified under the "Little Steel" formula. It accordingly recommended an increase, retroactive to April 1, 1943, of 32 cents in the basic daily rates, or 4 cents an hour. (Source: The White House Release. Sept. 28, 1943.) This recommendation was approved by the Economic Stabilization Director. (Source: Office of War Information, Office of Economic Stabilization, OWI-2618.) Sept. 29. The War Shipping Administration announced that through its recently created Field Service Division it has embarked upon a broad program to employ and train veterans and merchant seamen discharged as a result of combat or service disabilities. Several thousand men are to be trained and employed in the Civil Service; 68 men had already been trained and placed in ship-repair yards as examiners. (Source: Office of War Information, War Shipping Administration, OWI-2544.) Sept. 30. The National War Labor Board, in its opinion of September 14, approving unanimously the wage-incentive plan for the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation (Bethpage, L. I.), expressed its general policy with regard to such plans. (For features of this policy see page 936, this issue.) Since the issuance of Executive Order No. 9328 on April 8, 1943, the Board had received approximately 800 applications for approval of various types of wage-incentive plans. (Source: Office of War Information, National War Labor Board, B-1014.) About 500 of these had been approved by regional boards and 5 had been approved by the National War Labor Board. (Source: National War Labor Board.) November 1943 Absenteeism Absenteeism. By William M. Gafafer. Philadelphia and London, W. B. Saunders Co., 1943. 47 pp., bibliography, charts. Absenteeism due to sickness and nonindustrial injuries is dealt with in this pamphlet, which reproduces the text of chapter 24 of "Manual of industrial hygiene and medical service in war industries," prepared by Division of Industrial Hygiene, National Institute of Health, U. S. Public Health Service (1943). Absenteeism in war plants. (In Industrial Bulletin, New York State Department of Labor, Albany, August 1943, pp. 303–308. 10 cents.) A study of the causes and extent of absenteeism in 15 war production plants in New York State. Suggestions as to essentials in a program to reduce absenteeism are made on the basis of the experience of the firms included in the survey. Auditing absenteeism: Absence record forms in use by representative firms in war industries. Washington, U. S. Department of Labor, Division of Labor Standards, 1943. 30 pp. (Special bull. No. 12-A.) Free. Labor turnover and absenteeism. By Kendrick Lee. Washington, Editoria: Research Reports, 1013 Thirteenth Street NW., 1943. 14 pp. (Vol. 1, 1943, No. 10.) $1. Reducing absenteeism through employee education. New York, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Policyholders Service Bureau, 1943. 27 pp., illus. Limited free distribution. Compilation of practical tested approaches used by different companies to reduce excessive absenteeism in war plants. Child Labor and Child Welfare Juvenile labor in wartime in the United States. (In International Labor Review. International Labor Office, Montreal, September 1943, pp. 324-337. 60 cents.) Summary of developments as regards wartime employment of children and young persons in the United States and the modifications in existing standards governing their employment. State child labor legislation, 1943, and war suspension orders not reported in 1942 summary (by States). By Kate Clugston. New York, National Child Labor Committee, September 1943. 59 pp.; mimeographed. Standards of day care centers for children of working mothers in Mississippi, recommended by Child Care Committee of Mississippi Civilian Defense Council. [Jackson?], Mississippi Civilian Defense Council, 1943. 28 pp. The care of children under five in wartime, [England and Wales]. New York, British Information Services, 1943. 16 pp. (ID 410.) Free. The bulletin contains information on child-welfare services before the war, effect of the war on these services, extension of child-care services due to evacuation, provision of wartime nurseries, nutrition, clothing coupons for "under fives," and effects of war conditions on children and plans for them in the post-war period. EDITOR'S NOTE.-Correspondence regarding the publications to which reference is made in this st should be addressed to the respective publishing agencies mentioned. Where data on prices were readily available, they have been shown with the title entries. The amounts do not include postage, and also they are subject to change. Conciliation and Arbitration Industrial peace-a war "must". By William H. Davis. (In Mill and Factory, New York, August 1943, pp. 73-75 et seq.; also reprinted.) The chairman of the National War Labor Board urges that labor and management provide for arbitration machinery of their own to handle within-the-plant grievances. Labor arbitration under State statutes. Washington, U. S. Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor, 1943. 227 pp. Although prepared primarily for the use of arbitrators of the United States Conciliation Service of the Department of Labor, the information presented in this publication will be of value to others interested in the arbitration of labor disputes. First annual report of the New Jersey State Board of Mediation, for the period July 3, 1941—June 30, 1942. Trenton, 1943. 37 pp. Voluntary labor arbitration tribunals of the American Arbitration Association rules of procedure and manual for their use in wartime. New York, American Arbitration Association, [1942]. 30 pp. Cooperative Movement A cooperative economy: A study of democratic economic movements. By Benson Y. Landis. New York, Harper & Bros., 1943. 197 pp., bibliography. $2. A summary of people's institutions, both voluntary and governmental. The discussion covers consumers' cooperation (purchasing and financing); producers' cooperation (labor unions, marketing, and homesteads); professions and business; "public cooperation" through regulation of railroads, prices, industrial relations, etc.; and finally, international cooperation through the cooperative movement and other international organizations (including the International Labor Office). Directory of consumers' cooperatives in the United States, as of January 1, 1943. Washington, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1943. 93 pp. (Bull. No. 750.) 15 cents, Superintendent of Documents, Washington. Exploring tomorrow's agriculture: Cooperative group farming-a practical program of rural rehabilitation. By Joseph W. Eaton. New York and London, Harper & Bros., 1943. 255 pp., illus. $2.75. Describes the cooperative farming projects of the U. S. Farm Security Administration and a few nongovernmental cooperative communities, past and present. Farmers' cooperative discontinuances, 1875-1939. By W. W. Cochrane and R. H. Elsworth. Washington, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Credit Administration, Cooperative Research and Service Division, 1943. 38 pp., bibliography, charts; mimeographed. (Miscellaneous report No. 65.) This report analyzes 14,655 farmers' cooperatives that went out of business for various reasons during the 65-year period. Not all these associations were financial failures. Of the 10,877 that furnished data on the manner of discontinuance, 95.4 percent were forced out of business, 2.6 percent merged with other associations, 0.3 percent were reorganized and continued in business, and 1.7 percent (183 associations) were sold at a profit. This study of discontinuancesthe most comprehensive one yet published-gives data on the business and cooperative practices, volume of business, losses, and reasons for discontinuance. It reaches the conclusion that "farmer cooperation is a success," though cooperators may fail through lack of sufficient cooperative education and knowledge of cooperative and business technique. Cooperative societies [in Argentina] in 1941-42. (In Argentine News, Buenos Aires, March 1943, p. 21.) Statistics of membership, business, capital, etc., by type of association and geographical district. A nation rebuilds: The story of the Chinese industrial cooperatives. New York, Indusco, Inc., 1943. 32 pp., illus. 10 cents. Description, with statistics, of the operations of the various types of cooperatives in China that are assisting in the war effort. Work of reconstruction cooperatives in France after first World War. Washington, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1943. (Serial No. R. 1553; reprinted from Monthly Labor Review, August 1943.) 6 pp. Free. Cost and Standards of Living Bureau of Labor Statistics cost-of-living index in wartime. Washington, U. S. 14 pp. from Monthly Labor Review, July 1943.) Living costs since beginning of retail price control. Washington, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1943. 16 pp. (Serial No. R. 1547; reprinted from Monthly Labor Review, July 1943.) Free. 115 pp. Rent regulation for housing, with official interpretations. Washington, U. S. Office of Price Administration, June 1, 1943. Wartime budgets for three income levels: 1, Family of an executive; 2, Family of a white-collar worker; 3, Family of a wage earner; prices for San Francisco, March 1943. Berkeley, Calif., University of California, Heller Committee for Research in Social Economics, 1943. 106 pp., mimeographed. 85 cents. Wartime food for four income levels-prices for 'San Francisco, March 1943. By Ruth Okey and Mary Gorringe Luck. Berkeley, Calif., University of California, Heller Committee for Research in Social Economics, 1943. 44 pp.; mimeographed. 35 cents. Economic and Social Problems Guide for the study of American social problems. Compiled for American Social Problems Study Committee. New York, Columbia University Press, 1942. 181 pp. $1. Analysis of 11 basic social problems, with specific suggestions for meeting them through individual and group study. Sections of the volume deal, respectively, with the consumer, the worker, the farmer, women, the Negro, youth, education, housing, civil liberties, national unity, and security. Human conservation: The story of our wasted resources. By Lawrence K. Frank. Washington, U. S. National Resources Planning Board, 1943. 126 pp., charts. 20 cents, Superintendent of Documents, Washington. Deals with various causes of preventable waste of our human resources, such as accidents, illness, malnutrition, lack of adequate health care, conditions incidental to the operation of industry, etc. Management in transition. By Austen Albu. London, Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1942. 24 pp. 6d. (Fabian Society research series, No. 68.) The author discusses the transition through which management is passing and the political and social factors that may hasten or retard developments after the war. The spirit of American economics: A study in the history of economic ideas in the United States prior to the great depression, by J. F. Normano. The development of Canadian economic ideas, by A. R. M. Lower. New York, John Day Co., 1943. 252 pp. $3.50. (A publication of the Committee on the Study of Economic Thought.) Housing First annual report of the National Housing Agency, 1942. Washington, 1943. 32 pp.; mimeographed. Contains an account of the war housing activities of the Agency. Ninth annual report of the Federal Housing Administration, year ending December 31, 1942. Washington, 1943. Various paging, charts; mimeographed. Account of operations, effects of the war on financing, and legislative changes made in the year. Eighth annual report reviewing the activities of the Detroit Housing Commission, for the year of 1942. Detroit, City of Detroit Housing Commission, 1943. 70 pp., maps, charts, illus. Deals with housing needs, the provision of dwelling units, and home-registration work in the community. |