CM—CONSERVATION OF MANPOWER
IN U. S. WAR INDUSTRIES
CM stands for the Conserva
tion of Manpower in United
States War Industries. CM is a
war movement primarily aimed
at increasing war production by
preventing the work accidents
that slow down the whole war
machine. CM as much as any
single factor in our war effort
can help win the war!
The Conservation of Man
power movement is the idea and
the function of the United States
Department of Labor. Nearly
two years ago, the Secretary of
Labor appointed a national com
mittee, composed of safety ex
perts from private industry,
labor representatives, and State
officials. (National Committee
for the Conservation of Man
power in Defense Industries.)
Out of this committee flows an
organization of eight regional
and over four hundred district
and local representatives, all
qualified to render the highest
type of safety engineering serv
ice to all war factories in the
United States of America.
And after the CM movement
was started and perfected into
an efficient technical organiza
tion, nationwide in scope and
service, two important, and very
significant, changes took place
in our country:
First, we went to war;
Second, we started increasing
the number of workers in war
plants from 5,000,000 at present
to a total of 15,000,000 by the
end of 1942.
We have gone to war! It is a
war of production— production
in quantity, with skill, accuracy,
speed. More than a dozen men in
factory overalls are now needed
to keep one soldier fighting at
the front. Manhours are the
main source of war production,
and the manhours of our skilled
workers must be protected just
as completely and as fiercely as
the very lives of our fighting
men! The factory enemy of man-
hours of production is the in
visible, unkillable foe — ACCI
DENT!
Every accident in a war fac
tory is a setback to our whole
fighting front and a delay to
final victory. An accident which
kills or cripples a highly skilled
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worker, like a tool-maker or
machinist, is every bit as serious
as the loss of guns, tanks, or
planes on the field of battle. We
have gone to war and Accidents
have come to war with us right
in our own factories.
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Three times the number of
workers this year! For two
years the rush has been on— the
rush of the U. S. defense pro
gram. In those two years, and
the years preceding, we had
gathered 5,000,000 workers into
our defense factories. But now
“defense” is out and W AR IS
IN ! We have to rush still more,
save still more time, find still
more skill, and TRIPLE OUR
MANHOURS OF PRODUC
TION. With three times the
men, many new men, many un
versed in modern safety prac
tice, industrial war accidents
will automatically triple, or
worse.
Unless (and it’s a big UN
LESS) : we can interest all indus
try management, all war work
ers, and the whole American
public in the new, inspired Con
servation of Manpower move
ment! This war belongs to all of
us and every problem of the war
is every American’s problem.
CM is one of the toughest fights
we have on the United States
War Map.
Industrial managers, execu
tives, business men, can help CM
by giving the drive more study,
more energy, more publicity,
and more financial support! War
workers can help CM by bowing
to discipline like good soldiers
and obeying every single safety
rule and edict laid down by the
safety technician in their plants.
Accidents can’t be killed — but
they can be stopped cold! Let’s
stop them now!
The public— the tens of mil
lions of American women, chil
dren and relatives of war work
ers can, perhaps, do most of all
by talking safety, preaching
safety, shouting safety from the
roof tops and thus making safety
in war production popular.
April, 1942
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