HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
April 8, 1943
PAGE TWO
Incentive Pay
Plan Will Need
Plenty Figuring
Br JAMES MAHLOW and
GEORGE ZIELKE
WASHINGTON, April 7 P)
Two words Incentive pay are
In the news now. There have
been many words In the news
since the war's start. Some grew
up to be good Ideas. Some died
along the way.
Incentive pay as a great help
to war production is still in
the baby, or talking stage. Time
and, most likely, plenty of argu
ment will show whether it ma
tures into a real wartime help.
Incentive pay means simply
paying a worker a bonus for ex
tra output during his regular
workshift. . . . Briefly, there are
two sides to the argument.
Help Production
For It would help war pro
duction, give the workers more
Income, yet at the same time
keep basic wage scales stable so
that increases would come
through extra effort only, en
able the ambitious worker to
earn more than the lazy one.
Against It would require spe
cial arrangements in every plant
putting it in operation and might
turn into just another "speed
zaup" method under a different
name.
The National Association of
Manufacturers here says some
manufacturers favor the plan,
some don't. Some plants use the
plan, most don't.
General Methods
There are these general ways
of paying workers:
Hourly (building trades); daily
(baking); weekly (teamsters);
mileage (railroadmen); piece
rates (coal mining); bonus or in
centive, which -provides for a
flat pay rate plus a premium
for extra work (some electrical
and steel plants); and a system
under which management di
vides among all workers of a de
partment a part of extra profits
resulting from that department's
extra production efforts.
This is how some labor con
sultants, using an extreme exam
ple, explain the way the incen
tive or bonus system works:
Working System
Alysius Marblehead, working
in a widget factory, makes wad
gets for widgets, receives a flat
pay of $40. a week for a 5-day,
40-hour week, and has been turn
ing out an, average of 30 wad
gets an hour.
If the bonus plan were intro
duced and 30 wadgets an hour
were considered normal produc
tion, then Marblehead would be
paid for every wadget over 30
per hour.
So If he stepped up his out
put from 30 to 50 wadgets an
hour and if the company was
paying 1 cent for every wadget
over 30 Marblehead would re
ceive as a bonus 20 cents an
hour, $1.60. a day, and 58 for
the week. ' ' '
Thus he would be making his
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regular $40 weekly salary plus
the 58 bonus. That $8, how
ever, would mean he had kept
up the new pace and every hour
of the 40-hour week had turned
out 50 wadgets.
If Marblehead decided not to
exert himself, he could just rock
along, turning out the normal 30
wadgets hourly and receiving his
regular $40 weekly.
Effect Noted
Suppose Marblehead's union
and the plant agreed that an in
centive plan would be good all
around: The plant could turn
out more widgets and the work
ers at the same time would make
more money than called for by
the union contract
Then union and management
would have to agree on how
many wadgets could normally be
produced in an hour. These
problems might arise:
The worker used to determine
the normal production rate
would have to be locked but who
would the worker be? The fast
est worker in the plant? That
might mean a hardship on the
less vigorous workers. Or just
an average worker? And who
would decide labor or manage
ment in choosing the worker
for the test?
Hugging, Kissing
Wanton Misconduct
While Driving
COLUMBUS, O., April 8 (VP)
Driving an automobile 50 miles
an hour and hugging and kissing
a girl at the same time is "wan
ton misconduct" in the eyes of
Ohio's supreme court.
The court so ruled yesterday
in refusing to review a lower
tribunal's . decision awarding
Jean Major $5000 damages from
Glenn Liggett for injuries re
ceived when Liggett took time
out to hug and kiss her while
driving home from a basketball
game. The car left the road and
struck a stone wall.
Mile Past Front
Lines Before He
Stopped Going
SAN FRANCISCO, April 8 VP
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, urg
ing Americans to give all pos
sible to the Red Cross, told her
Pacific coast radio audience last
night of one Red Cross director
working at a war front.
"He kept moving up toward
the front until he felt he must
be quite close to it," she related.
"He mentioned this to one of
the soldiers.
"Close to the front? Brother,
this is a patrol You're a mile
ahead of the front"
The world contains approxi
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fish.
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OREGON HEPS
PROTEST FIELD
OFFICE CLOSE
WASHINGTON, April 8 (tP)
Two congressmen from Oregon
and one from Chicago protested
before the house appropriations
committee against closing field
of f i s of the department of com
merce. Rep. Ellsworth (R-Ore.) argued
that there will be no real sav
ing and said the action might re
sult in additional expense.
He said the offices have been
increasingly busy during the
emergency and that, should they
be closed, other agencies would
have to be set up "with the re
sultant delay and Inefficiency."
He added that information on
our foreign trade, on the volume
of work handled, and the experi
ence of war agencies using the
district offices clearly indicates
that it is sound economy to con
tinue these offices.
Rep. Angell (R-Ore.) said his
investigations indicate the bu
reau of foreign and domestic
commerce "has been one of
greatest service in furthering the
interests of small businessmen
and industry generally in my dis
trict" WASHINGTON, April 8 UF)
Senator McNary has written Ore
gon canners that the agricultural
marketing administration has as
sured him the market will not
be flooded when the array re
leases its surplus supplies.
Representatives of canners at
Portland and Pendleton wrote
the senator that they had heard
that 2000 cases of peas, corn,
and tomatoes were to be auction
ed by the government
The procedure, the senator
said, is to permit the processor
to make the first bid, then all
canners alike are to be offered
the opportunity to bid if the first
proposal is not satisfactory.
Last Man Found in ;
Check Forging Case
DENVER, April 8 () The
last of eight men accused of
leaving a trail of forged checks
through Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and Utah, was arraigned
yesterday before U. S. Commis
sioner Harold S. Oakea on
charges of forcing and cashing
government obligations. The
men used a stolen check writing
machine in their operations.
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Klamath Women Urged to
Serve in Ambulance Corps
Klamath women who aren't
Joining the WAACs or the
WAVES are urged to give serv
ice to the community by joining
the Oregon Women's Ambulance
corps.
This Is the slogan with which
the Klamath platoon of OWAC
is ODeninc a recruit hie mm.
paign in an effort to more than
aouDie me membership, which
now totals about SO.
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to give service in this cnDacitv
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o'clock at the armory, according
to Lieut. Berdcna Rcedcr,
The corps offers drill similar
to any other armed service aux
iliary and, In addition, five
courses of specialized training
are given elementary and ad
vanced first aid, motor mechan
ics, Morse code and chauffeur's
license.
Qualifications for membership
include) age - minimum of 18
years, good moral character,
health certificate from , doctor,
birth certificate or naturaliza
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should not apply Inasmuch as
they are often unnblo to be awuy
from home on drill nights.
With the arrival of the Klam
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gift from the Elks lodge, mem
bers here are now enabled to of
fer complete service In the field
of emergency work for which
they are trained.
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Charles Foley extended his left
arm to signal a left turn, he ex
plained to police.
Ho rounded the intersection
slowly, arm still out and a
nlmbla bystander snatched Fo
ley's wrislwatch and fled.
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PORTLAND. April 8 W) The
stnto highway commissioner pon
dered today a request that 00-foot
truck-traitors bo permitted to
operate over more tributary
highways between Portland and
tho coast.
The request whs made by the
Arrow Transportation company
late yestorday. Tho commission
said it would Investigate to de
termine If the big vchirlos could
be kept on the proper side of
the roads at all times,
Tho commission said It would
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