FIVE DAY WEEK PRAISED BY HEAD OF LARGE PLANT
Five Day Week Praised by Head of Large Plant Manufacturer of Automotive Equipment Finds Five-Day System Increases Production 15 Per Cent (The Progressive prints herewith another of a series of...
...In making flic change from the live and one-hall day week, our former practice, we maintained the same number of hours per week per employe, and therefore, the same hourly wage rate...
...WOULDN'T MISS A NUMBER (Milwaukee, Wis...
...In our experience this appreciation is well attested by the fact that at various times when we have found it necessary to get In extra hours of work during the week workers petitioned and voted to have these extra hours of work performed by overtime on the regular working and at the regular working rates, rather than to break in on the full holiday Saturday...
...Rl, Trousdale, Okla., who is one of the Progressive Republicans in the south...
...A check on the five day week was made and records continued for some time when first adopted, and those records showed that our production stepped up as hi^h a3 17 per cent in some weeks and fluctuated in the neighborhood of 15 per cent as long as we continued keeping these comparative records We are very much sold on (he five day week and firmly believe that economically it...
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...A very unlooked for effect of the five day week was discovered, namely, the percentage of accidents dropped very decidedly...
...ROCHESTER MFG...
...Old type executives, baaiers, etc...
...Herbert Hastings, the president of the company, discusses the merits of the five day week and its advantages to employer and employee.—Editor's Note...
...work again in the near future.—J Bocek...
...In fact, we traced a number of accidents where the sole cause was on account of the workman talking with his shop mates as to what they were going to do in the afternoon...
...Brighton, Rochester, N. Y. Gentlemen: The five day week has been observed by us upwards of ten years and has proven very satisfactory' to the employes as well as to the management...
...dldates who represent the common peo-i pie from all the tickets available...
...gets something which it values and appreciates, it is apt to suov that appreciation by the type of service rendered...
...Herbert Hastings, President...
...There Is the further valuable advantage that is inherent, in the reaction of human nature, namely, that when It...
...Seems we are dilatory here in Oklahoma .^ending Progressives to the U. S, Senate...
...Fla., Sept...
...There Is real citizenship ir...
...of Rochester, N. Y. a large industrial company manufacturing automotive equipment...
...On this particular question the vote was unanimous...
...At present with only a very small percentage of industry observing (he live day week, it has numerous further advantages...
...It ls easier to obtain help on the five day basis, and if and when there is competition in getting just the help you want, other things being equal, the five day place will be chosen, uid In many cases will be chosen when other considerations may be in "avor of the other place...
...aad possibly some of the new, will argue that it is unsound to have a large investment in plant and equipment lying idle during one whole week day and such judges should doubtless compile quite a list of figures to maintain their argument, but even granting that figures don't lie...
...If, were back in Sauk county, Wis., frd> where I moved, I would try my best aid the Progressive cause.—F...
...With a full night intervening between the full holiday, we find that this pre-holiday effect has almost entirely disappeared...
...Hoping to help you with the goofl...
...has more to support it than any five day and a fraction or longer, plan taaj has yet been devised...
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...And as the present tickets arq„ alligned we are obliged to pick the can...
...Very truly yours...
...In our judgment the two clnstdera-tlons, economic soundness and human preference, are sufficient to warrant the five day week...
...Wish you would begin his subscription with the August 23 issue so he can read of Senator Norris' victory, as well as those of Sorenson and Huddleston...
...The following is a letter from the Rochester Manufacturing Co...
...In addition to the economical soundness, in our judgment, of the five day week, is the further vital advantage that a full holiday aside from Sunday is highly prized and appreciated oy the workers, and this means all workers, factory, office, supervision, engineering, and what...
...Sept...
...namely Saturday forenoon, and on thought the result seems perfectly logical, for the reason that when the average worker has a half holiday ahead of him, the 'irst half of that day finds him thinking and planning more or less on what he is going to do with the half day...
...Do not see much benefit in voting any particular«iicket regardless of the principles of those to be elected on the ticket...
...I am with you to the fullest exte^ and wish you success everywhere...
...The answer was.found in looking up the records which showed that a large percentage of the accidents had been on the half day...
...We find this to be both true and actual...
...Since I am a native of Nebraska cannot help being proud of every progressive move made there...
...S. Mo: gan...
...ROCHESTER MANUFACTURING CO., INC...
...they at times do not cover tlie whole equation and our five day week experience convinced us that this is true in this matter...
...Okla...
...1 would not like to miss on-single number, and I have been reading La Foiiette's Magazine lor yead&r— S» X, XUiaa...
...It has been and is our policy to put questions of this kind alfecting our employes to their vote, for or against, and the desire of the majority thus expressed becomes our practice...
...WISHES SUCCESS . (Riverview...
...voting for a definite principle that wi.1 give justice to all-with special favors t-> none...
...Five Day Week Praised by Head of Large Plant Manufacturer of Automotive Equipment Finds Five-Day System Increases Production 15 Per Cent (The Progressive prints herewith another of a series of letters from big manufacturing and industrial concerns in various parts of the United States that are using the five-day-week system in their plants...
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Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 41
