The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-12


 duction "know-how" and "know- why" and many or the war plant miracles now ba1ling the Axis, will be revealed for t.ie iirst time to the American public at the New Eng land War Production Drive Show" opening Monday noon, November 15, for a two-week run at the War Production board regional head quarters, IT Court street.
 Over a thousand outstanding eX- hibits. entered from New England's 225 labor-management production committees, will feature new tech- niques which have won suggestion contest awards, boosted war plant output and morale, licked manpoWer and absenteeism problems, and scored countless unsung victories on the battle lines of production.
 The teamwork of American man. agement and labor working to- gether is the theme of the show first of its kind in the country which WIPE officials have termed "the story behind the story of the very thing Hitler said couldn't hap pen but which did happen"
 Although staged primarily to show industry, labor, Army, Navy and drive leaders the inside workings and successes of labor-management production drive committee, which WIPE Regional Chairman Walter H. Wheeler, Jr., calls "our flrst ana best instrument for getting more and more production from less ana less manpower", the show VIII pc thrown open to war workers and the general public with admission iree' from l2 noon to g p. m. daily ex- cept Sunday through Nov. 27,
 Charles E. wilson, WIPE executlVe vice chairman and delegation or Washington officials will attend the show during the first week They are closely watching this New Eng land innovation as a model to DC copied in other principal cities throughout the nation. ..oo
 The show will be set up in 4'ooo square feet of floor space on the 7th floor of the National war Agencies Building and can be enter, ed at either IT Court street or 30 Cornhill (the former entrance closed daily after D, m) Displays VIII be arranged not by companies, as in trade shows, but according to "sections" covering the various pro duction and morale activities III which these in-plant production teams are engaged.
 Expected to be feature section IS one called "Thinsers for Victory v displaying hundreds Of live eX, hibits of production suggestions ana ideas by which war workers, through their labor management sugges- tions systems, have saved thousands of man-hours and tons Of critical materials. The workers actual ln- ventions and shortcuts will be de- picted through jigs. fixtures, models and gadgets, accompanied by their first crude sketches, blueprints ana even photos of the production SOL diers themselves.
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 Names of other sections ol the show indicate the serious worKing purpose which the WPb says prompted the exhibition. Among them are "Manpower and Absentee ism" Conservation and salvage Transportation and Car-Pooiihg |; Safety and Plant Protection 'Tool Conservation and Care or iginal Plant Posters "Emp!oye Publications and Bulletin Boards War Bond Drives Blood Donor Campaigns" General Morale Ac- tiyities," Labor Management Con- mittee Organization and Practice"
 In addition, WIPE will sponsor a special section devoted to intorma- ton and technical material avail able 10 war plants, and will con- duct q program of information and assistance in setting up these labor management teams for the peneIit of industrial and labo. executives.
 For the past week dozens of crates and cartons containing exhibits from all over New England nave been pouring into WIPES big show room as committees in war plants from Bangor to Bridgeport vie with each other to help WIPE depict one of the least known but most heart ening stories on the production front.-the story of management and labor teaming up in the common cause of more and better production
 Frederick Bowes. Jr., New Eng land manager of WIPES War Pro-