Word: handwork
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...handful of students and their leader who waved signs in Senator Taft's face last Saturday were creating little disturbance--a ripple of laughter, but no more. Yet on these grounds the police refused them permission to display their handwork, even after Taft had left and the ceremony was over...
...time on the woodpile, vibes and marimba in bands ranging from 20-piece earsplitters down to sextets. Trio work is something fairly new, and Red finds it "all headwork-the bass has to cover for a drummer, the guitar for clarinet or trumpet, the vibes for piano." Headwork or handwork, old Red was the uptown...
Order was restored only when President Carlos Prio Socarrás promised that local markets would be safe for handwork. Hereafter, he decreed, machine-made cigars would be for export only. The big companies, which had already installed 29 machines (displacing 768 workers) and ordered 12 more, refused to accept Prio's decision as final. "Now that we have invested our money," wailed one big producer, "we would be forced to close if this is definitive. Our export market is not large enough to take our full machine output. We need 20% of the home market besides." The battle...
...bill had been endorsed by 48 Federal Government and state authorities,. 20 carrier organizations, 85 shippers' groups, 145 farm and livestock organizations, 108 business groups and 552 chambers of commerce and civic organizations. New Hampshire's Scripture-quoting Charles William Tobey saw in this the "fine Italian handwork" of the Association of American Railroads. It had "greased all the wheels." Cried he: "Before God, it smells to heaven...
Incentive Pay. But the deepest quagmire for production was a fantastic incentive pay plan. Colt had always had incentive pay. When mass production came to Colt, it kept the same piecework rates as for the slow handwork. Thus semiskilled filers came to earn as high as $8,200 a year, while the highly skilled toolmakers made as little as $3,000 a year. Result: many workers drew big pay for little work, had no incentive to work harder, fearing rates would be cut if wages, became too fantastic. Colt went through a series of small strikes. The War Labor Board...