Evening star. [volume], February 25, 1940, Page A-16, Image 16

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Manufacturers Cite
Successful Program
Of Job Stabilization
General Regularization
Plan for All Industry
Held Impossible
Programs aiming at stabilized em
ployment have been worked out
“with a marked degree of success”
by many concerns, the National As
sociation of Manufacturers said yes
terday after a Nation-wide study
designed to show what industry Is
doing to reduce fluctuations in pro
duction and provide steady income
for labor.
At the same time, however, the
association said, employers agreed
“that a general employment regu
larization plan for ^11 industries
was impossible.”
The survey covered the opera
tions of 183 companies affiliated
with the N. A. M„ which were
chosen at random. “By reason of
their diversification — Industrially,
geographically and in point of size—
these companies may be viewed as
representing a fair cross section of
the country's industrial concern,” it
explains.
See Stimulus to Efficiency.
"These employers," the report
says, “see In a greater degree of
employment regularity a substan
tial source of benefit not only to
employes in the matter of their se
curity and their sustained income,
but also a real and impressive stim
ulus to plant efficiency, lower pro
duction costs and financial saving.”
The association said the new
work-hour law has militated
against employment regularization,
but that the principle has been
advanced materially by reason of i
the merit rating provisions in State
unemployment compensation laws
under which the social security un
employment compensation tax rate
is cut below the customary 2.7 per
cent for those concerns maintain
ing steady employment levels.
Consumer goods industries have
been the most fertile field for sta
bilized employment, according to
the report, but certain capital goods
Industries also have benefited by
application of the plan.
Difficult to Measure Gains.
“Tt is difficult,” the report ex
plains, “to measure the extent to
which companies in general have
succeeded in regularizing employ
ment and provided steady or fairly
steady work to their employes in
view of the fact that each industry
and each company within each in
dustry is confronted with conditions
that vary considerably.
'Tt is apparent from the experi
ences reported by responding com
panies that their efforts toward
employment regularizing often re
sult in stabilizing employment only
for one particular group of em
ployes or the employes of a spe
cific division or department where ;
conditions make it more feasible
and more practical to level off pro
duction fluctuations. Such efforts
may bring a degree of employment
stabilization that represents a
marked gain over previous condi
tions. although measured from the
objective statistical viewpoint, the
degree of stabilization achieved may
not loom as a major accomplish
ment in relation to the whole em
ployment picture in that company.
Regularize Employment.
"A large number of responding
companies report that they have
succeeded in regularizing employ
ment for their long service or ‘regu
lar employes’ with a lesser number
Indicating that such regularization
has affected all workers. In all of
these companies, the goal has been
the steady employment or the es
tablishment of an average minimum
work week during the year that
would afford employes fairly steady
employment and wages.”
In this connection, the report says
that in an effort to evaluate the de
gree of employment regularity ac
complished in individual companies
from the practical viewpoint of fac
tory operation, those companies par- i
ticipating in the study were asked
“whether their employment curve
showed a greeter stability than their
production or sales curve.”
“With overwhelming emphasis,” it
adds, "the response to this question
revealed that the employment curve
in the large majority of responding j
companies was definitely more stable
and maintained a considerably bet
ter level than did either their pro
duction or sales curves, thus giving
proof of industry’s practical at
tempts to reduce the fluctuations in
employment.”
Stabilization Devices.
Starting out with planned produc
tion. a number of devices have been
employed in the stabilization pro
grams.
They have included stimulation of
off-season business by various meth
ods, including special discounts;
training of employes for greater ver
satility and departmental inter
change of workers to dovetail busy
and slack seasons, careful “holding
down" of the number of new em
ployes hired for peak seasons, aver
aging of work hours and improve
ment of old products.
The report points out that wage
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hour law restrictions on the aver
aging of work hours to meet the
varying needs of slack and busy sea
sons is one of the handicaps to em
ployment regularization, and that
others include style factors, chang
ing seasonal demands, physical prob
lems of warehousing advance inven
tories. production schedules con
trolled by customers’ requirements,
new machinery and tool require
ments for changing models and
designs.
Since the evacuation of Stras
bourg, Prance, has been nicknamed
“the sleeping city.”
Juvenile Court Law
To Be Luncheon Topic
The Juvenile Court law of the
District of Columbia and the work
that has been done under the pres
ent legislation will be the subject of
a luncheon meeting of the Voteless
District League of Women’s Voters
tomorrow at 12:15 pm. at the Y.
W. C. A. Judge Pay Bentley will
be among the club’s guests at the
luncheon, which will be under aus
pices of the board of directors and
the child welfare department of
the league.
Attorney John E. Lasky will dis
cuss the present Juvenile Court law
of the District, while Michael J.
Keane, Jr., assistant corporation
counsel of the District assigned to
the Juvenile' Court, will give an
appraisal of the work done in the
court under the present law.
Guests also will include Miss
Genevieve Gabower and Miss Helen
Richards of the Juvenile Court and
Miss Patricia Morss of the Board
of Public Welfare.
Jungle Music Aids Study
Of 'Problem Children'
By the Auoclkted Brest.
BOSTON, Peb. 34.—Jungle music
is being used In a New York
psychiatric ward to aid scientists,
in solving the difficulties of “prob
lem children,” two investigators sa(d
today.
Dr. Lauretta Bender and Miss
Pranziska Boss, an exponent of the
modern dance, declared the use of
tom-tom, drum and gong and other
primitive musical Instruments, in
Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, had
successfully stimulated children Into
spontaneous dances during which
many of their inner problems were
revealed.
They told the American Ortho
psychiatric Association, Inc., at the
close of its seventeenth annual
meeting that vibrations of percus
sion instruments provide a stimulus
for overcoming inhibitions in the
children and are “a decided help in
provoking reactions and re-enforc
ing them when they start to appear.**
Danger lurks ahead when caution
is left behind.
8.000- Ton Cargo Ship
Launched in New Jersey
By the AiweliM Pr*M..
KEARNY, N. J„ Feb. 24.—Second of
Wx ships being built for the United
States Maritime .Commission, the
8.000- ton steamship S*;a Hound was
launched today at the Federal Ship
building dc Dry Dock Co. yards.
Mrs. John E. Schmeltzer, wife of
the assistant director of the Mari
time Commission’s technical divi
sion, christened the cargo ship.
Measuring 492 feet overall, the
Sea Hound will have a normal
operating speed of 16% knots. It
has a 69%-foot beam and a depth
of 42% feet. ,
A sister ship, the Sea Fox, was
launched January 27 and Is expected
to be commissioned early next
month. Of the C-3 type, the vessels
will be the fastest cargo ships to
fly the American flag.
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