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...west to trouble-shoot a critical manpower problem at Boeing Aircraft Co.'s plant (Renton, Wash.), WPB Chairman Julius A. Krug is stopping off this week in his home town of Madison, Wis. The citizens have something for him to see. They want to show him the R.M.R. Corp. plant, where practically everybody in Madison works at one time or another, turning out special batteries for Army walkie-talkie sets...
During 1944, WPB's Management Consultant Division worked out incentive plans for some 1,000,000 workers, kept tab on what happened through spot checks of the plants. Result: production jumped an average of 40% within three months after the workmen began to get bonus pay for extra work...
...worker's "take-home" (wages plus production bonuses) increased 10 to 15%. Production costs per unit dropped 10 to 15%. In effect, said WPB, 400,000 new workers were added to the labor force at a comparatively trifling cost...
More important still to WPB was the fact that most of the increase came in industries where it was most needed. Ex ample: war production has bottlenecked in manpower starved forge shops and foundries which were caught under low ceilings when the wage freeze came, thus lost their workers to higher-paying war plants. Incentive wages boosted production 35.3% in 144 foundries and forges...
...louder WPB and the military clamored for arms and ammunition, the dourer became stocky, ruddy President Harmon Lowman of the Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville, Tex. His school had a half million dollars' worth of manufacturing equipment, and plenty of potential manpower-and nobody seemed to see the connection. Probably hundreds of other U.S. vocational schools were in the same willing but unable condition...