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Cleveland's Jack & Heintz, the Katzenjammer Kids of U.S. industry (TIME, April 6, 1942, et seq.) were last week playing a new role. Famed for their fantastic bonuses to "associates" (employes), as well as for their bang-up job of turning out plane equipment, they were putting up a noisy fight to hang on to their money. The War Department had ordered their 1942 profits pared by $7,000,000 ($5,250,000 has already been collected in taxes...
...total business. Despite this volume, it takes only 400-odd employes to turn out everything. The Skol Co. (two-thirds owned by Gallowhur Chemical Co.) runs on conventional capitalistic lines. But Gallowhur Chemical, some 90% owned by free-wheeling George, is different. As Gallowhur puts it, "we have Jack & Heintz ideas except that we don't shout down tubes." The employes already have free hospitalization and insurance (up to $1,500), will get a 30% participation in net profits if & when the U.S. Treasury allows...
Bill Jack's plant is not a place where a pin could be heard to drop. It has been described as "a blueprint for bedlam." In the movie, when Jack & Heintz workers arrive on the job, a voice announces over a loudspeaker: "All aboard! Next stop Berlin!" Promptly workers grab their tools, create a strangely realistic din which represents a train leaving a station, putting on steam, finally roaring along at breakneck speed. When workers get down to work, they do so to the crash of jazz-band disks. Girls keep time by wiggling their hips on their stools...
...shot in this film shows Bill Jack getting mauled by the factory masseur. Groans Jack between pinches: "What people want is sympathetic attention." Jack gives his people attention by sympathetic personal chats ending with a pat on the back. There are no pats for absentees or latecomers. Jack & Heintz has no time clocks. Late workers are given a hell-raising reception, have to run the gantlet of their fellow workers' resounding wolf call. Result: workers are almost always on time, almost never absentees...
...Jack & Heintz also has an eye to the future. When the war is won, any serviceman who has worked six months in the plant will get his job back, plus $50 a month which has been accumulating in his absence. Women workers have already sworn that after the war they will go home, become good wives and mothers. Just what Jack & Heintz's detailed postwar plans are, the film does not reveal: they are a secret. But this film is a pretty convincing argument in favor of Bill Jack's wartime formula: close cooperation between labor and management...