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Anyox oldtimers were already writing in, asking for jobs. Said onetime Foreman Tony Caverzan: "I'd like to go back. It was one of the swellest towns in the North. It was lively but quiet, too. We never had any trouble...
...Electrical workers are picketing the home of a Westinghouse powerhouse foreman who is not eligible for union membership. The union wants him to quit work so that there will be no heat in offices and unorganized office workers will have to be laid off. Neighbors of the foreman supply the pickets with coffee...
...Manufacturing Co., greying, husky Eugene Beuttel and his partner, Samuel Daniels, worked at a long assembly line. On it, fins for 500-lb. bombs moved slowly along. As they moved, Beuttel and Daniels welded the fins, in an electric blue blaze of light. Suddenly the line stopped moving. A foreman's voice shouted an order...
Four months before Pearl Harbor, he had been adjusting washers on the final assembly line, when the foreman switched him to a new line-hydraulic wheel retractors for aircraft. The swift scrambling of the plant's orderly insides had made Emil blink. His work week had jumped from 40 to 84 hours. Emil had hardly been able to see the fat overtime pay checks. But as the plant clanked out of its surprise, the hours came back to a reasonable 48, and Emil was again earning his usual dollar an hour, plus time and a half...
Even for G.E., speed eventually equals Emil, plus the 900 reconverted war workers, the returning veterans and the new people G.E. will hire. Emil knows it. He is very glad he resisted the California impulse, although he intends to vacation there sometime after he becomes a foreman...