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Farmers Dumped. An ad hoc group of militants calling themselves the Ulster Workers Council proclaimed a general strike on May 14. They appealed to employees of the power plants, most of whom are Protestants, to stay off the job. Electricity output was cut to a trickle, forcing frequent blackouts and slowing industrial operations. The work stoppage spread to other industries, even though trade unions refused to support the strike...
EARL WILSON, 67, has been equaling Lyons' prodigious output a few pages away in the same New York Post for more than 30 years. Wilson's 1,000-word column, "It Happened Last Night," appears six days a week and is now syndicated in nearly 200 newspapers. Wilson treads his ex-stable mate's old path around Manhattan and keeps the same strenuous hours. The fruit of all that effort-a dollop of show business shoptalk and a few bon mots from the stars, wrapped around a demi-cheesecake photo of some starlet-may not always seem...
...economy's most vexing ailments is a slump in productivity-that measure of output per man-hour that is the best gauge of national economic efficiency. When labor, materials and machines are managed effectively and productivity rises, more goods and services are turned out. Managers can raise wages without adding to production costs or boosting prices. Indeed, a sustained rise in productivity is essential if the U.S. is ever to quell inflation while expanding its economy fast enough to meet its needs for more job opportunities and improved housing, education and medical services...
...according to the Labor Department, in this year's first quarter, private nonfarm productivity declined at an annual rate of 3.5% largely as a result of the severe first-quarter drop in real output of goods and services.* As is usual in times of an economic slowdown, both workers and machines operated below optimum efficiency because employers did not trim their work force as fast as they reduced production. The main cause of the productivity slump in the first quarter was that the gasoline crisis forced automakers to cut production of big, gas-drinking cars. Since auto manufacturing...
...last week-but only after 14 months of deadlock and costly delays in introducing productive machines. Also, too many managers are convinced that people do not want to work and need tight supervision. Yet experiments in rotating assignments and granting more on-the-job autonomy to employees have increased output at Procter & Gamble, IBM and AT&T, among many other firms. At Motorola, portable beepers for paging doctors and others are no longer assembled on lines; one worker gets the satisfaction of putting the whole unit together. At Kaiser Aluminum's plant in Ravenswood, W. Va., maintenance costs...