1940 Press Photo Colonel Philip R. Fleming, National Administrator of Wage

The demand that labor work longer hours in defense preparations was branded as "loose talk put out by armchair strategists who don't know so much about it" by Colonel Philip R. Fleming national administrator of the wage and hour division of the Department of Labor. "Anyone who knows anything at all about industry," according to the colonel, who was here yesterday on a routine check of the field offices, "knows that production decreases with overlong hours. With modern speed-up methods, I believe the best level is close to a 40 hour work week."

Photo is dated 1940.

Photo measures 6.75 x 9.25 inches.