FORT WAYNE WORKS JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES JAN. ii 16-31 Volume 33 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. FRIDAY. JANUARY 20. 1950 No. 3 N.L.R.B. Hearing Opens In G-E Representation Case A formal National Labor Relations Board hearing 6,113 Suggestions Submitted During 1949 opened in New York Tuesday, Jan. 17, before Hearing Offi­ ANNUAL STATEMENT cer, Charles B. Slaughter, on the question of ordering REPORTS ACTIVITY FHP Motor Divisions Receive N.L.R.B. elections to deter­ TOPS PAST RECORD mine the employees' wishes as Four Gold Key Contest Awards to union representation for Suggestion System activi­ approximately 125,000 Com­ ties reached a new high for pany employees within 99 1949 at the Fort Wayne bargaining units at various Works, it was revealed today locations throughout the coun­ in a report issued by A. C. try. Hartman, chairman-secretary The hearing had been called as a result of petitions filed with the of the committee on sugges­ N.L.R.B. seeking clarification of tions. the representation question arising A total of 6,113 suggestions were from the fact that although UE submitted during the year, making is the certified bargaining repre­ an annual rate of 611 per 1,000 sentative, demands had been made employees. The report showed an upon the Company by the IUE-CIO increase of 132 suggestions per for recognition at the 99 locations 1,000 employees over the previous involved. year. A brief verbal exchange occurred Of the 6,113 suggestions re­ between counsel for UE and IUE ceived, 2,375 or 38.8 per cent were at the opening session. David adopted. This is an increase of 2.4 Scribner, UE counsel, challenged per cent over the record for 1948. IUE to agree to an election on or The number of suggestions re­ about Feb. 10, stating: ceived and adopted were the high­ est in the history of the Fort "We have made that offer a Wayne Works and are considerably number of times, and it has been above the average for the Appar­ rejected by the IUE, despite the atus Department and the Company fact that it was the chairman of as a whole. the administrative committee of the Awards amounting to $28,987.50 (Continued on page 12) were added to the earnings of em­ ployees. An award of $1,000, the Individual Gold Key awards were presented last week to T. N. Ness, A. L. Johnson, F. D. Wilson, R. A. Thomas, and K. B. highest for the year, was presented Parks for their efforts in obtaining: orders which brought the Fractional Horsepower Motor divisions four awards offered by the Apparatus Department as a part of the Gold Key Contest. Taking; part in the presentation, shown above, were: (1. to r.) M. E. Applications Offered to Perry O'Neill, of FHP Motor Lord, Manager of Fractional Horsepower Motor divisions; R. C Hanna, Assistant Manager of Sales; Mr. Ness, Mr. Johnson, Mr. (Continued on Page S) Wilson, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Parks, all members of the FHP Motor Sales divisions, and A. W. Bartling, Manager of Sales. For G-E Educational Four orders for fractional horsepower motors were selected FIRST IN A SERIES recently for Gold Key Order Contest awards. The awards Loans, Scholarships were made on the basis of extra effort in the terms of in­ genuity, imagination and industry by members of the Frac­ Results Of Employee, Public tional Horsepower Motor divisions and the district offices in Forms Are Available To All Opinion Survey Are Reviewed securing the orders. Employees, Their Children; Individual recognition awards in ELEX CLUB ANNOUNCES By C. H. MATSON, Works Manager the form of gold key tie clasps Must Submit Before April 1 were presented to five members of Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of four articles in which the results of PLANS FOR MID-WINTER a recent employee and public opinion survey will be discussed. the local sales division by A. W. Bartling, Manager of Fractional CONFERENCE, JAN. 28 Application for loans and What is your attitude toward the General Electric Com­ Horsepower Motor Sales divisions. scholarships available to em­ pany as an employer? A. L. Johnson and F. D. Wilson Initial plans are being made for ployees and the children of Would you say that General Sound Truck To Broadcast received individual awards for their a mid-winter conference of the employees of the General Electric is a friendly or an un­ efforts in obtaining an order from Elex Club, it was announced today. friendly place in which to work? For March Of Dimes Drive Electric Company and its af­ the Martin & Schwartz, Inc., Salis­ The meetings will be held Satur­ filiated companies are now be­ What do you believe can be done bury, Md., for fractional horse­ On behalf of the annual March day, Jan. 28, at the YWCA. to make General Electric a better power motors for gasoline pumps. ing accepted for the school of Dimes campaign, a sound truck The sessions will be open to all place in which to work? This order was obtained by dili­ /ear of 1950-51. will be stationed at the Broadway members. Opening with a lunch­ Which of the leading industries gent and painstaking effort in over­ Since 1924, when the first formal gates today at 3 and 4 p.m. The eon, the conference will be a "pep- in Fort Wayne is most active in coming a difficult problem brought educational assistance program was announcements will tell about the session" for the club's activities working for the betterment of the about by numerous failures of offered by the Company, some 784 activities of the National Founda­ during the remainder of the year. community? motors purchased by this customer loans and scholarships totaling tion for Infantile Paralysis and ex­ What could General Electric do in 1947. This extra effort in meet­ Reservations should be made more than $195,149 have been plain the need for funds. that it is not now doing in order ing the customer's problems, plus with contact girls or at the per­ awarded. to be a better industrial citizen? Cannisters will be available at aid in application engineering, won sonnel offices at Broadway and Funds for the loans and schol­ The above are just a few of the all gates of the Broadway and the order. It has also developed a Taylor St. The cost for the confer­ arships will be provided from the many questions asked of General Taylor St. plants for contributions. customer who is now outspokenly ence will be $4, and reservations General Electric Employees Edu­ Electric employees and the public The quota for Allen County is friendly, even though the situation must be made by Wednesday, cational Foundation, the Charles P. (Continued on Page 4) $50,000. (Continued on Page 4) Jan. 25. (Continued on Page 4) Page 2 GENERAL ELECTRIC NEWS—FORT WAYNE WORKS Friday. January 20, 1950 IN AMERICA, HE IS NOT FENCED IN! "Pathologist Of Capital" FORT WAYNE WORKS ^—— Harpers Magazine has called him "one of the best known of living pathologists of capitaL" Mr. Flynn served as an adviser to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency in its in­ Don Campbell.. ..Editor vestigation of the stock exchange Volume 33 Friday. January 20. 1950 No. 3 in 1933-34. Later he became economic adviser to the U. S. .Senate Committee investigating munitions. Mr. Flynn was ap­ Isn't A Hundred Years Long pointed member of the Board of Higher Education for New York Enough To Prove A Point? City by Mayor LaGuardia in 1935, Back in 1847, a German gent named Karl Marx wrote a and became head of the board in book he called "The Communist Manifesto." It was during 1937. the era history books call the "Industrial Revolution"—when Mr. Flynn is a past president of machines were beginning to take the strain and sweat off the New York Press Club and a men's backs. member of the Author's League of Marx, and the other prophets of doom, predicted that America and the Player's Club. His capitalism, under the machine age, would gobble up all the home is at Bayside, I^ong Island. wealth, and , leave the working man in a state of pitiful Wrote Rockefeller Biography destitution unless all peoples of the world could be organized "God's Gold," a searching biog­ on a uniform" socialistic basis. raphy of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Now, lefs have a look at how far we have come—and and "Country Squire in the White why—from the day of Karl Marx. House," a campaign year diatribe In 1850—animals and men did 70% of this nation's work. against President Roosevelt, have Machines—only 30%. Crude implements were the rule, backs made his name familiar to the bent under the strain. The work week was 70 hours and the general public. average worker's output per hour bought 27 cents worth of With the approach of World War goods and services, measured in present day buying power. II, Mr. Flynn became an ardent Today—a century later, animals and men do 6% of this isolationist leader and was active nation's work. Machines—94% ! The work week is 40 hours, with Charles A. Lindberg and the and the average worker's output per day buys $1.40 worth America First Committee. of goods and services, measured in today's buying power. Political differences led to a In 1850, with a population of 23,191,876, the number termination in 1940 of his long of gainfully employed was 7,700,000 including farmers, or association with the New Republic, 32.2% of the1 people.