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...minutes." (His pay: $8.36 a day.) "One night, as quitting time neared, a group of perhaps 20 men had congregated . . . ready to make a dash for the gates when the whistle blew. All had stopped work about ten minutes earlier, and there were about three minutes to go. A foreman happened by. 'Break it up, boys ' he ordered. 'Spread out a little...
TIME, Aug. 24, p. 17, referring to the disgraceful behavior of organized labor in Detroit, relates an episode as follows: . . . a foreman asked a machine operator to move a box which was blocking the aisle. Said the operator: "Hell no, move it yourself." The foreman had to get a maintenance man to move the box. While the box was being moved the machine operator declaimed for 45 minutes on his "rights...
...hell did the foreman have to "get a maintenance man to move the box?" Why, in the name of whatever qualities of leadership it takes to be a foreman, didn't he say: "All right, you bastard, I'm a foreman, but I'm not too big a shot to move the box, or to shovel manure if it helps win the war!" and move it himself? If he'd done that, he wouldn't have given the "worker" a chance to "declaim for 45 minutes on nis 'rights' " and he would have...
...Ford's River Rouge plant a foreman asked a machine operator to move a box which was blocking the aisle. Said the operator: "Hell no, move it yourself." The foreman had to get a maintenance man to move the box. While the box was being moved, the machine operator declaimed for 45 minutes on his "rights," Other workmen left their machines, gathered around to listen. The foreman could do nothing; he did not want the workers to have a new "grievance...
...juggling their test with physical, aptitude and intelligence tests, Messrs. Humm & Wadsworth claim to be able to direct an individual almost unerringly to the right vocation. Some of their deductions: too much self-control (i.e., overconservatism) is as bad as too little; a good foreman must be cheerful, self-controlled, decisive; a good salesman is usually selfish and stubborn; tough guys make the best welders and combat flyers; a wide variety of types are successful as riveters; introverts are happier on assembly lines than extroverts...