Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Westroy Battle Boyce, onetime Government worker, was staff director in the Mediterranean theater before she was brought back to the job she now fills: a director on the general staff responsible for WAC training policies. Fragile and helpless looking, 43-year-old Westray Battle Boyce is known as one of the best administrators in the Corps...
...first in the aircraft industry. It is also probably the simplest. Time studies of individual operations are eliminated. The incentive pay bonus is paid, not on individual operations, but on the output of the entire plant. Thus on half of all poundage over a fixed rate (.48 pound per worker per hour) everyone in the company, from janitors up to executives mating $8,000 a year, is paid a bonus every three months. Bonus for the last year: 25% of wages...
...these reasons, coupled with the fact that Grumman workers are the fourth highest paid in the U.S. aircraft industry, and are ruggedly individualistic Long Island clamdiggers, chicken farmers, etc., no union is making any serious attempt to organize Grumman. The company has never had a strike or a slowdown. It has handled the explosive race problem just as smoothly, now has some 600 Negroes in all types of jobs. Worker morale is so good that Grumman can always strain production in emergencies. When the Navy lost an unexpected number of planes on Guadalcanal, Swirbul rallied the workers on a weekend...
These of us who visited the Hood Rubber Co. had an enlightening experience. We now know the effect the average male has on the average female. As one man put it, "We must have reduced production 20% but think of the morale of the worker!" Think of the frustration of the workers, we reply...
Down in one department the Hon. Mr. Beckham stood over worker No. 357-908 watching her as she went about her rubbery task. As he rubber-necked, worker No. 356-667 called across two across of assembly line in her sweet little voice, "Hey, Edna, stop drooling...