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...Soviet official who plans a plant transfer does not have to worry about state lines. He does not have to make intricate arrangements with railroad companies. He does not have to worry about labor laws or labor unions. He does not have any trouble finding enough workmen. He just orders so many workmen, asks railroad authorities for the proper number of trains, goes to work. U.S. observers, reared in the legend of Russian inefficiency, have found little of it in this...
...swarm of workmen in the buildings, in the yard, up the road at the largest machine shop west of the Mississippi, Rube Fleet sees enough to make an ordinary man's eyes pop ten times a day. Consolidated employs better than 30,000 workers. Six years ago, when Fleet settled down in San Diego, he approved a payroll that had only 311 names. A year ago. when he employed 9,000, he still personally checked the payroll and passed on every request for a raise. But not now. With new employes taken on at the rate...
...Russians mechanically ignorant? Their workmen can handle mechanical equipment as well as any U.S. mechanic-thanks to the universities and trade schools of Russia, where the lazy, incompetent or dull pay high tuition, the brilliant pay little or nothing...
What with war and a shortage of funds, the only workmen left building the greatest Protestant cathedral in Christendom last week were Irish Catholic Bricklayer Arthur Donald Brady, 19, and aged Mortar Mixer Paddy Riley...
...parts plants felt the blow first. Auto-Lite had laid off 1,500 men because Chrysler would need fewer ignition systems, batteries, instruments. Of Toledo's 54,600 industrial workers, 4,000 were already out of jobs. In the next six to nine months, another 100,000 Ohio workmen would follow them-according to an estimate last week by 0PM itself...