For Workers

Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe last week told Canada's House of Commons what the Government intends to do about workers in plants where war production is already being curtailed or canceled. Said he:

P: Factories with reduced production schedules will first reduce working hours to 48 a week or "to the normal working hours for the industry."

P: Workers who are young enough, healthy enough will be inducted into the armed services.

P: Those with special skills will be shifted to jobs where those skills can best be used (example: workers with previous agricultural experience will be transplanted, wherever possible, to dairy and stock farms).

P: Women with working husbands and no other job in prospect will revert to housekeeping.

In these interim plans, discerning Canadians could see no real solution for the huge problem of postwar readjustment. On the basis of Minister Howe's pronouncement last week, the best that could be said was that Ottawa had faced up to the problem, was thinking hard.

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