Inside Know-How

While labor clamors for greater participation in the management of industry, one company's workers are showing how this can be obtained: General Electric Co. employes (mostly C.I.O.) have this year submitted 12,250 suggestions for speeding production, saving man-hours and materials and improving quality.

For these helpful production hints G.E. so far this year has paid its smart employes $115,000 in awards. Some winners:

> Spencer Frederick, ex-carpenter, is now layout man in the welded-parts section at Schenectady. His suggestion for rearrangement of ship-motor parts cut from large steel sheets gets 25% more pieces from each sheet, saves 110,000 lb. of steel. By better arrangement of other parts cut from steel sheets he saves another 537,000 lb. of steel. Total savings: enough to make 80,000 Garand rifles. His award: $1,025.

> Howard Wildman has saved 5,000 man-hours per year by an improved method of machining delicate parts for naval instruments, has also simplified the machinery so that rejects are now down to a new low of 2%. Award: $500.

> Laura Garrison, employed since 1928, has won 17 awards. Her latest: an improved design for transmitter parts which go into highly complex aviation equipment. Award: $350.

> Axel Johnson, Swedish-born 45-year-old, designed a pattern change that saves enough steel in a year to make 44,000 bayonets, will cut man-hour time on production of cargo-vessel electrical parts by 10%. Award: $250.

> Andrew Campriello, spot welder of Italian parentage, developed a better welding technique on steel cases for enclosing electrical equipment aboard cargo ships. Time saved: 3,000 man-hours a year. Award: $200.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.