Release of Key Men for Motor Industry
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I-HE views of the'S.M.M.T. concern
ing the, release of personnel from the Services have been outlined in a letter to Mr. Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour. It. is pointed out that the motor industry fullY appreciates the great difficulty involved in arriving at a fair decision regarding priority of release when the termination. of hostilities permits such a course to be adopted. . The industry is influenced_ by the effect which any particular course of release would have upon its post-war reconstruction, and by the overwhelming importance of providing employment for the greatest number at the earliest possible date. Unlesa, how. ever, the framework be first available, it will not be practiaable to employ the
large number of skilled hands and the still greater number of unskilled workers which, it is hoped, will compose a largely expanded motor industry in the post-war years. This framework will, to some extent, be supplied by existing key personnel who have been retained, but many others have, at various times, been absorbed into the Services, and their early return will be of paramount national
importance,. • • The utmost sympathy must be expressed with the principle of " First in, first out," but it is felt that there is a higher purpose to be served to the country, as well as to the Service individual in particular. The number of key men will be.. small relatively to the vast bulk of others..