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...Alloy. The appointment of tall dapper Hiland Garfield Batcheller, 57 to boss WPB's important Iron & Steel Branch seemed to make certain that WPB would throw its hopelessly confusing priority system out the window, set up a rigid allocations plan under which each manufacturer will get a quota that sticks...
Dalrymple's method is the six-hour day and a strict quota system which forces every member to work at the same speed. Thus while every factory pays piece rates, practically all banding department men earn $7.92 a day, all truck tire builders $8.90 a day. The men could earn more by turning out more units. But when one company wanted to boost the daily stint to 169 tire bands per man per day the union squashed it to 143 per day. Reason: a few men might not make the grade and get less money than others...
Result is that Packard has met every WPB quota. Despite higher & higher goals, aircraft-engine production was 17% above quota in May, 14% above in June and 13% above in July. Marine-engine output shows smaller gains. And since the plan started, there have been no strikes, no slowdowns, not even a minor labor fracas. Cheers. This has brought cheers from management, labor, Government. Three months ago Christopher twinkled through his spectacles, said the plan had "greatly increased production, stepped up efficiency, lessened waste." Union Man Murdock went overboard, said "the plan has worked out so well it has even...
...early months of 1917 were occupied with a series of heated drives among the student body to fill the quota of men in ROTC demanded by the War Department. Under the direction of Captain Cordier, the new regiment had barely begun its intensified training when the war with Germany broke...
Premedical men, physicists, and other specialists will be well advised to join the Enlisted Reserve, unless they wish to enroll in V-1. The quotas for the Enlisted Reserve are filling up, and the Class of '44 has very nearly used up its quota. Immediate action on applications should not necessarily be expected for the rest of this term and the first week or two of the next...