FORT WAYNE WORKS "More and more bureaus, more and more taxes, fewer and fewer pro­ ducers; the final result is financial collapse and the end of freedom." —Gen. Dwight D. (Ike) Eisenhower Volume 33 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29. 1950 No. 39 Community Chest Drive Starts Monday The Community Chest solicitation begins Monday at the Broadway, Taylor St., and Winter St. plants. All employees G-E Women's Clubs To Hold are urged to contribute generously to help meet the goal of $50,000, which has been set for the G-E employees' con­ tribution. appointed nearly 400 solicitors to Conference At Purdue Univ. This week, divisions chairmen canvass the various divisions. The second annual Inter-Club Conference of General Elec­ Hay Soughan is chairman for tric women's organizations will be held Saturday and Sunday, Specialty Transformer and Ballast Specialty Transformer, Ballast Divisions divisions: Oct. 7-8, at Purdue University W. V. Merrihue, Manager of DIVISION 81 Employee and Community Virginia Winegart. Hold Annual Sales Conference At Wawasee DIVISION 82 Gertrude Wagner, leading solicitor; Kuth Relations for the Apparatus Khrsam, Bess Brown, Virginia Graft', and Department, will be guest "Organizing For Profitable Selling" was the theme of the Ha/el Hudson. DIVISION 85 Fifth Annual Sales Conference of the Specialty Transformer Robert Burns, Accounting, and Matilda speaker at the banquet Satur­ Collins, all other sections. day evening. and Ballast divisions held Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday DIVISION 90 Viola Brooks. The two-day conference will be­ of this week at the South Shore Inn, Lake Wawasee. DIVISION 91 gin at noon Saturday, when dele­ Nearly 100 representatives, in­ I in HI.l Bobay, Paul Noffzc, Everett .tones, George Schafcr, Melvin I.eykauf, gates will register in the lobby of cluding officials of International Gerald Schafer, William Suelzer, Clifford Monday Is Deadline Schwartz, Michael Dauscher, second shift; the Memorial Union. Luncheon will General Electric and Canadian Lloyd Haller, and Donnahelle Wagner, be served at 1 p.m. The general General Electric, were on hand office. For Elex Membership DIVISION 94—BLDG. 26-3 assembly and business session will for the three-day meeting. Among Gertrude Kumerant, leading solicitor; be conducted then from 2:30 to 0 Monday will be the last oppor­ the foremost topics of considera­ Stella Wells, Velma Kose, Mildred Haslup Helen Wagner, Carolyn White, Aldyth p.m. tunity for women employees to tion was a discussion of plans for Cotner. second shift; Mildred Steffev. sec­ the orderly conversion of an in­ ond shift; and Lois Debolt, office. The evening banquet will be held join the Klex Club for the year (Continued *>n pa-re 4) at 6:30 p.m. Dinner music will be 1950-51. The membership drive, creasing share of total production provided by the Purdue University which began Sept. 5, will close facilities to the manufacture of quartet. Monday, Oct. 2, to everyone ex­ transformers and ballasts for mil­ i Conl Lnued <>n pa*-1-* t. cept new employees of the Com­ itary equipment. Snider To Give pany. A. W. Bartling, newly-appointed Dues aie $2 per year and may be General Sales Manager of the Talk On Humor FINAL AGREEMENTS IContniiH-d «*r] pave 11 . (lontinued <>i. Page ">) South Side Principal SIGNED WITH UNIONS To Be First Speaker In Squares Club Series Final argeements on wages, 175 Trainees Attend TAB Day Outing pensions, insurance and con­ R. Nelson Snider, principal tract provisions were reached of South Side High School, last Friday when General will be the first speaker in the Electric signed argeements "little lecture series" to be with both IUE and UE repre­ sponsored by the Squares senting nearly 100,000 G-E Club. employees. He will speak Saturday, Sept. The national agreements, reached 30, at 8 p.m. in the Squares hall. after a summer-long management- The subject of his talk will be union negotiations, call for a 10 "The Anatomy of Humor." Mr. cent an hour pay raise (including Snider is very active in civic atfairs the 3*J4 placed in effect on July 1), and is currently serving as presi­ $125 minimum monthly retirement dent of the Community Chest. income for employees at normal Six programs are planned for retirement age and 25 years of the "little lecture" series. They credited service, new and expanded will be designed to appeal to the life and health insurance coverage, entire family and there will be an additional paid holiday, and no admission charge. The program other benefits. The pay raise will is open to Squares members and be retroactive to September 15, their guests. after the company has received evidence of ratification of the agreements by union locals. Cafeteria Service Available All non-union and non-exempt At Both Plants Over Week-End employees will also receive the 10'' Approximately 175 trainees were guests of Fort Wayne management at an all-day outing Saturday at an hour increase, and exempt em­ There will be cafeteria service at Municipal Beach Park. The trainees are members of the Company's Test, Apprentice, Business and other ployees will be given corresponding the Taylor St. and Broadway plants training courses. The event opened at 9:30 a.m., when four drum majorettes (above) led the trainees in a inrceases. Saturday, Sept. 30, as follows: parade for the opening ceremony and flag raising. The remainder of the day was spent in sports compe­ Breakfast Broadway only Following is a brief summary tition between four color teams. of contract highlights. First shift lunch Broadway and M. M. Boring, Manager of Technical Personnel division, Schenectady, N. Y., gave a short talk follow­ Taylor St. A 10 cent hourly wage increase ing the dinner. Other members of management attending from out of the city included N. M. DuChemin, Second shift lunch....Taylor St. only over the June 30 pay levels, an Manager of the Small Apparatus divisions; P. T. Lewis, Manager of Manufacturing, Small Apparatus Sunday, Oct. 1 average of 5 cents of which was divisions, and B. A. Case, Manager of Engineering, Small Apparatus divisions, all of Lynn, Mass., and First shift lunch Broadway and put into effect by the Company on J. A. Spencer. Manager of Employee Relations, Apparatus Department, of Schenectady, N. Y. (Continued on page 8) (See photos on pages 6 and 7) Taylor St. Page 2 GENERAL ELECTRIC NEWS—FORT WAYNE WORKS Friday. September 29, 1950 FORT WAYNE WORKS Red Feathi jnpaign Don Campbell Editor Volume 33 Friday. September 29, 1950 No. 39 REGISTER TO VOTE.' in 1950 While the "right" to vote is held dearly by practically every honest-to-goodness American, the actual process of voting is neglected by entirely too many people. This year, when the "democracy" on which this country prides itself, is being put to its severest test around the world, there is to be an election—now little more than a COMPANY ' •-• WILSON month away—and emphasis is being placed on the importance '»tsiDENT of "getting out the vote." The Allen County registration office is located in room 105, on the first floor of the Courthouse. The personnel will be glad to assist you in any way they can any weekday be­ tween 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., except Saturday when the office closes at 1 p.m. Whtre YOU Fit In So oan „ ^is year Un,A -' ways. •"•<•/ will h» v "-Miunuies. •-•--rx^^sstS*s^ "STh - .--"-- •- i-":;j,i»-f •<«• s i-.7v,"0 ,/s'"'- «-. economic *i., "ars~-in their r-n., " tn<-y win rhapS the fa th «*y will £ue\r ^ Polftict t - M-2? era b 1-oae commu-ltI£° »s <* health and ^^ »"<- the "-e^^w WZson •*•» CHEST £tf* care given by St. Vincent's Villa. Negro welfare and race relations through vo­ You remember the work of the Family and cational guidance, counselling and training Children's Service, Inc., in providing counsel Negro youth, neighborhood services, indus­ with families and individuals to enable them trial and labor relations, and employment CAMPAIGN to better understand themselves and their placement. It seeks to extend and promote Yes, you've walked down Calhoun st. many times. But circumstances; thus helping them to develop public health services, stimulate provision of have you ever taken time to look into the faces of those more resourcefulness and direction of their housing facilities and organizing and super­ who walk beside you? affairs; more skillful management of their vising neighborhood and block councils to There . the child with a smile on her lips and a steel personal and family life; and growth in quali­ study local Negro problems. brace on her leg . and you think of your own little Mary, ties of good citizenship, and provides spe­ Then there is the Social Planning Council, strong and healthy. The man whose eyes look always forward cialized services, such as homemaker's serv­ which is the planning and coordinating serv­ and whose lightly tapping cane guides him through the ice and foster care for children. ice for health, welfare, and recreation in traffic . you hope there is some way for him to earn a You also recall the recreational and cul­ Allen County. It studies the social and health decent living. The kids wearing baseball caps and grimy tural programs sponsored by the Fort Wayne needs and resources, plans constructive and smiles . do they have a place to play under proper super­ Jewish Federation, and assistance to those comprehensive action to meet those needs, vision ? in need of financial aid or professional coun­ and seeks to improve existing services by The chubby little boy lost in the crowd and crying for his selling, and work with Jewish transients.