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City of Dayton Ohio takes numerous measures to improve transportation and provide amenities that make life on the job easier for war worker during World War II
Opening scene shows workers arriving for a shift at a war plant in Dayton, Ohio, during World War 2. The arrive in cars and public transport (not seen) to stream across the road in front of the defense plant, as they enter. Others are seen leaving defense plants, in large numbers as their shifts end. A sign at a war plant show a cartoon of Adolf Hitler riding in the empty back seat of a man's car. It reads:"Hitler rides in the empty seat. Double Up!" Men and women are seen standing at a designated Transportation Center to arrange for sharing rides with others. A man steps from a sidewalk, in town, to get into a car that stops to pick him up as part of that activity. People gathering for buses under newly built shelters. A sign on a bus reads: We deliver the war workers. They deliver the goods." Buses moving through the city. One stops and many workers exit, in a town center. Other workers are seen lined up to board rail road trains. Workers entering their private cars in a crowded parking lot at a war plant. Workers crowd into the entrances of a defense plant, where their identification badges are evident on their work clothes. Large numbers of workers leave at the same time others arrive when a shift change occurs. Plant managers discuss ways to minimize absenteeism. View of workers in a crowded cafeteria providing hot meals. A sign reading: "Ladies Dining Room." outside a room filled with women workers having a meal. Men at work in a machine shop. A factory steam whistle blows, signalling a rest period, as workers take a break for a snack or a smoke. A sign on a door identifies the "Ladies Health Department." Hours posted on the door correspond to various shifts operating at the plant. Another worker health service is that of a dentist on the premises. View of dentist and nurse working on a patient. Another service area in a war plant shows clerks helping workers to obtain ration books, auto and driver licenses, dealing with Selective Service (draft) matters, income tax questions, ride sharing, and telephone and light utilities. Scene shifts to the Headquarters Building of the National Cash Register Company in Dayton. Inside, a company manager is interviewing a worker who plans to quit. They discuss the workers reasons and seemingly resolve some problem, because they shake hands and the film narrator implies that the worker is going to remain on the job. A factory building all lit up at night. Inside men and women are seen performing war work on machines, just as in the daytime. Next, a group of plant managers are seen being trained in particular skills required at their jobs. A view of the city from across a river. A radio announcer with station WHIO. A montage of newspaper clipping related to war workers.
Film summarizing efforts by City of Dayton, Ohio to overcome labor shortage and meet defense production goals in World War II
The City of Dayton, Ohio's local war manpower and emergency committee members are seen gathered around a table to discuss what other than just more workers is needed to meet the war production goals set for the city during World War 2. An animated diagram superimposed on a drawing of a factory, charts the labor needs vs. labor supply. For the management side, the chart cites matters that need to be addressed, including: personnel management; plant layout; reduction in turnover, and absenteeism; and better working conditions, Regarding labor itself, the chart cites the following as needed: additional women; transfers from non-essential jobs; minority groups; part-time workers; and handicapped workers. Next, the emergency committee of community leaders is seen around a table. They are being addressed by Stanley C. Allyn, President of the National Cash Register Company, who notes that Dayton has partially solved its manpower shortage and expects to meet its war production goals.Camera pans over attendees, including labor leaders from AF of L and CIO; Government officials present, including Area Director and Deputy Regional Director of the War Manpower Commission, and Chief of Program Requirements for the Region; leading industrialists and retailers are shown. Local officials seen include the Mayor of Dayton and Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce as well as the Commanding Army Air Forces Generals of Wright Field and Patterson field. Mr. Allyn discusses further work to be done with as much emphasis on human relations as on the mechanics of production. An animated map shows Dayton and other areas of labor shortage, all over the United States. Workers in a factory are seen moving propeller blades across the floor by twirling them on end. Propellers assembled on their hubs are moved across the factory floor on wheeled stands. Artillery shells are seen protruding from containers. Browning aircraft machine guns moving along a conveyor belt. M3 Lee tanks being completed and moving across a factory floor. Glimpse of bombers in production. Army trucks lined up in formation at a factory yard. Closeups of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. (Narrator notes importance Eisenhower places on full support from the home front as essential to the war effort.)
A U.S. aircraft drops parachute supplies for U.S. troops in China Burma India Theater during World War II.
Activities of Office of Strategic Services, the U.S. intelligence agency in China Burma India Theater during World II. A U.S. aircraft in flight drops parachutes. The parachutes descend. Parachute supplies land on a field. U.S. troops on the field.
U.S. aircraft land on a dirt strip at a large U.S. military installation in China Burma India Theater during World War II.
Activities of Office of Strategic Services, the U.S. intelligence agency in China Burma India Theater during World II. U.S. aircraft land on a dirt strip at a large U.S. military installation. U.S. soldiers look at the landings. The aircraft parked near trees. A painting of a girl on the side of an aircraft with the words, "Room 1119 ?". The aircraft takes off from the dirt strip.
Allied troops fire artillery from a U.S. military installation in China Burma India Theater during World War II.
Activities of Office of Strategic Services, the U.S. intelligence agency in China Burma India Theater during World II. Allied troops fire an artillery gun on a field. A soldier shows a shell with a write up in English on it. A member of a gun crew loads shells in an artillery gun. The troops fire artillery.
Artillery gun being fired by Allied troops at a large U.S. military installation in China Burma India Theater.
Activities of U.S. intelligence agency the Office of Strategic Services in China Burma India Theater during World II. A U.S. aircraft lands on a dirt strip at a large U.S. military installation. Allied troops fire an artillery gun. A soldier talks into a walkie-talkie. Soldiers seated and looking over a chart. (World War II period).
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