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...bigger slice of a bigger pie by more intelligent cooperation. Labor, which once fought technological change, came to see that improved machinery raised real wages by raising man-hour output and lowering costs and prices. Industry, which once fought unionization, came to see that unions themselves could help boost productivity, and that good morale among work...
...slice of a bigger pie by more intelligent cooperation. Labor, which once fought technological change, came to see that im proved machinery raised real wages by raising man-hour output and lowering costs and prices. Industry, which once fought unionization, came to see that un ions themselves could help boost productivity, and that good morale among work ers could release great untapped energies. This new philosophy reached its most dramatic fruition in a revolutionary contract which General Motors' President Charlie Wilson made with the United Auto Workers; it recognized that the worker was entitled to an automatic annual increase...
...popcorn, potato chips and beer. Competitors think the trouble with National Can is that it has been run too long by men who have been sitting on their own product. By exploiting such new markets as canned whole milk, Solinsky hopes to get the company back on its feet, boost it from fourth to third in the industry. Says he: "You don't mind doing repairs on a house that's basically sound...
...automen had no doubt they could boost production though, like other industries, they have been hampered by a shortage of manpower. In the past two months, workers have become so scarce that some plants are offering bonuses for new employees brought in. But when tank and Army truck production is cut back next summer (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), more labor will be available...
Wide Open. Government requirements that business records be kept for from one to ten years have given Mosler's sales a big boost. (In ten years, they have more than tripled.) Another big sales stimulator has been the atom bomb. For such customers as the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Mosler has built a bombproof stronghold for records 30 feet below Metropolitan's Manhattan headquarters, which even a direct hit will not destroy. (A Mosler vault in Hiroshima's Teikoku Bank, only 300 yards from the center of the atom bomb's blast, was unbreached...