SPLIT-SHIFT SCHEME
"THE 'split-shift' scheme for helping to solve the manpower shortage in U.S. war industries is rapidly spreading. While the U.S. Employment Service in Hartford, Conn., was developing this plan to use white-collar workers m industry on a part-time basis, officers of the Warner and Swasey Company, Cleveland makers of turret lathes, independently adopted a similar system, which has been followed by other plants throughout the Middle West. In Warner and Swasey's shops at 4 o'clock every afternoon 125 of Cleveland's business and professional men change into overalls to start a four-four shift; at eight they. are relieved by 125 others who stay on. the job till midnight. To aiost\ of them the pay is less important than the feeling they're no longer sitting on the sidelines, watching the war. Their rate of absenteeism is less than half of one per cent; and their enthusiasm is so contagious that even the occasional factory hand who used to 'soldier' on the job is now speeding up."—"Reader's Digest."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 38, 9 January 1945, Page 4
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167SPLIT-SHIFT SCHEME Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 38, 9 January 1945, Page 4
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