OPM Should Set Up Advisory Board Of Labor Leaders Slichter Maintains

In order to avoid singling out labor for special restrictive or disciplinary legislation, economist Summer H. Slichter, Faculty member of the Business School yesterday recommended that the Office of Production Management of the National Defense Commission invite each of the 150 national labor unions to enter into an agreement to call no strikes except under special conditions after taking certain preliminary steps.

Slichter's program follows directly from the resolution formed by the Labor Policy Advisory Committee of the Defense commission last December 8. Composed of 16 influential labor men, the Committee pledged itself "to take no action which may in any way impede production before all conciliation facilities have been exhausted."

The labor men on the Advisory Heard, Slichter pointed out "do not represent anyone, not even the 16 unions from which they come." To make the Committee's policy effective, the OPM must acquire the cooperation of all the labor unions.

Most effective protection against strikes, according to Slichter is to give both laborers and employers a vivid picture of the seriousness of their emergency work. Graphic monthly charts showing the race of industrial production between Germany and America would give the American laborer a more tangible feeling of competition, inspiring him to exert his fullest effort to out do his totalitarian opponent.

Such hearts would indicate to workers the scheduled output of principal defense goods, the actual output for the month, and the estimated German output, the professor concluded. Since it is impossible to obtain an accurate stational count of German output, the graph will indicate production as ` from the best available sources.