The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-04

loading the peak shifting labor freely and intell
gently from plant to plant and encouraging workers
to faniliarize themselves with more than one
operation
Each individual plant is responsible for its own I'M
employment. The possibility of building reserve
sufficient to permit both workers and employers to
stop contributing to the fund has been an added in
centye to sterilization The net result has been to
reduce the number on the pay roll and in the in
dusty to the lowest possible point consistent with the
needs of the industry without fear that labor would
not be available at the height of the season.
The industry has been undergoing changes in
method and in product which has eliminated some
operations and has maze for greater unit production
per worker. In other words, the industry has been
faced with so-called chronological unemployment
The industry long has accepted responsibility for
workers who longer were needed on account of
changing business conditions product and has fol-
lowed the practice of dividing work transferring
workers to other jobs wherever possible until gradu-
ally they drifted to other industries.
Since the unemployment insurance fund was estab-
nshed, readjustment OF the working force has been
fastened by drawing on the fund and paying a leaving
to displaced workers Instead ruthlessly re-
ducing the working force nursing it along by divd-
Ing the work when there no chance of Offer
ing full employment, surplus workers are paid sub
stantal separation wage which quidates their claim
on the plant and the industry and serves as shock
absorber while they readj1st themselves
Finally, the industry has lessened extreme effects
of cyclical or depreSsonal unemployment by using
unclaimed balances revolving fund for relief pur-
poses This serves the double purpose of copensat-
Ing for severe unemployment beyond the capacity of
an individual house fund to pay and of encouraging
to remain in the industry those workers who are
likely to be needed when business RECEIVERS
The waste due to labor drift during depression is
largely avoided The arrangement is flexible and sub
ject to complete control.
By giving q greater sense of security, unempIoy-
ment insurance has removed many restrictions which
were matchmaking in their effect and has broken
down opposition to technical change, which often
means temporary unemployment.
The working of the plan has made for contn-
ous inventory of LABOR and conditions in the industry
has brought the problem of employment to the fore
and has given new significance to the advantages of
regularity of plant operations Emphasis has been
shifted in the minds of employers and workers from
rates Of pay to annual earnings.
Conjecture has given way to facts the cumulative
effect of which has encouraged both sides to think
in terms of ultimate detectives. The attitude, cit
can't DONE" goes into the discard in the face of evil
dence that sit has been done" to the advantage of
those affected. This by-product of facts basis
for intelligent thinking and planning on the part of
all factors would in itself justify unemployment in
surance in the industry but it has served we'll to
prove that industry can meet employment response
bilty and at the same time advance in efficiency.