Word: employees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ In the South Carolina mills, where weavers, without organizing, had struck against new orders calling for increased production from each employe, strikers began to dribble back to their looms as stopwatches disappeared and efficiency experts' reports went into office trash-baskets.
Important, though seldom discussed, is the manufacturing ratio between a day's pay and a day's work. Last week Gerard Swope, president of General Electric Co., discussed piecework versus timework payment, said that ''modifications of the piece rate system" had been introduced in General Electric...
Engaged. Charles Jacob Young of Schenectady, N. Y., General Electric employe, Wartime ambulance driver and aviator, eldest son of General Electric's Board Chairman Owen D. Young; to Esther Marie Christensen of Cleveland, Junior League poetess and black-and-white artist, daughter of Niels Anton Christensen, airbrake inventor, Danish...
South Carolina. Operatives first walked out of the Brandon Mills at Greenville. Others at Spartanburg, Union and Anderson followed. Complaint was against the "stretch-out" system whereby workers were given increased work without proportionately more pay. A committee of the South Carolina Legislature, headed by Representative Dowell E. Patterson, who...
Sweeping in a Manhattan post office, last week, a negro employe stepped on a parcel and was startled to hear it go siss, and emit wisps of smoke. He gave it a "kick, let out a yell. The package stopped smoking, and nothing happened.