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Understanding the vulnerability of Labor in a line production industry, the 100,000 Ford workers could appreciate the 6,000 Briggs workers' position. Last October, Briggs had shifted from base rate to piecework wages. Deducted from employes' pay was "dead time"-time lost when they were moving from one part of the plant to another, when materials were delayed, when machines broke down. Some said they were getting less than $10 a week. Not unionized, they could protest only by striking...
Directly after the Revolution, Russia passed through a period of so-called "War Communism" characterized by virtual abolition of money and attempts to apply the Communist maxim "from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs." Today Russia is back on a money and piecework basis, but is not back on a Capitalist basis, the distinction being that no private employer is permitted to amass any considerable wealth...
Labor's Gompers remained at heart a piecework cigar maker to the end. As industry grew more specialized, Gompers merely grew older, stodgier. He refused to see that it does not take years of apprenticeship to teach a man to screw two nuts on a Ford chassis as it passes him in straight-line production. So the A. F. of L.'s membership continues to be a diehard association of specialist craftsmen, for which industry has less & less use. On his death bed Gompers petulantly directed his membership to support the Presidential candidacy of the late Robert Marion...
...Labor and Defense made two important rulings last week. At present important Russian trains arrive at their destinations from two to 24 hours late. The Council decreed that in future the pay of locomotive engineers would be docked for lateness, that all train crews would be paid on a piecework basis. All train crews must run 1,125 miles or 192 hours each 30 days. If the average is less than that, pay is docked: if it is more, pay is increased...
...predecessor Warden Plummer. Over the 600 convicts stand only three guards. The inmates are given prison keys, allowed to work unguarded outside the prison walls, permitted to drive trucks to Wilmington unaccompanied. Escapes are rare. The convicts themselves deliver discipline, ostracize rule-breakers. The inmates are given piecework, earn money for cigarets. clothes, sweets. During the day they wear blue denim work clothes, in the evening they dress like citizens for dinner...