The sub., 1944-03-30

Arguments on the question of staying on the boats till whistle time have thrown much heat and not too much light, so we're going to try to clarity our stand, particu- larly since we have been accused of contradicting ourselves. What we have been gripping about was this:
 Obviously, our united aim Is to increase production. There are two ways of approaching this quit ting time problem. One iS to let the workers leave the boats at 3:SO and 12:15 to return tools, prints, etc. before the whistle blows. The second is to stay on the boats until the whistle. Most foremen seem to think that letting people come up to the shop early is fairest and doesn't hurt production noticeably. We heard 1 that someone from the War Man power Commission clocked the time lost in that way and got some staggering total that ran into the thousands just for the month of February.
 Our bosses maintain that it doesn't take much time to return things and that chances are if we have to stay on the boats until whistle time we'll get more done. Our complaint against them has been that they didn't demand a clarification of the rules.
 We think the first sceme-com- ing up early-would be best if 1t would work, but it doesn't. From 11:3O p. m. on we see people be- ginning to trail out of the boats and back to the shop to hang around until 12:30. By 12:15 there's usually no one around but electricians and painters (yes, we found another department that's shining exampleD. Certainly all department heads know of the rule, and have recently received notice to enforce it, but flair words butter no parsnips," and to them it's just lone of those things"
 How about doing something drastic? But let us clear 1t up once and for all! If there is to be any kind of system of manage ment, it seems there should be some consistency. And we of the electrical department don't like being the exception that proves the rule.
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 In the spring young man g fancy lightly turns to baseball and oth- CT kinds of pitching. Also, around here anyhow, to growing a mouSt- ache. We've noticed several sprOuting cookie-dusters, and Charlie Miu1ter even has goatee.
 Our Pin-up girl, Mary Scaccia- ferri, Is well off on her marital career with an engagement ring from Billy Skinner, welder on the ways. And cookbook and bicar- bonate of soda from Rebel. Just call him the Voice of Experience.
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 Saturday night, March II, there was a double birthday party for Gladys Andreoli and Phil Santan- gelo in the temporary lights shack at suppertime,
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 We have a correction to make. In the last column we gave a plug to the idea that everyone should be in the union as soon as they start work. Since then, someone has pointed out that 1t is illegal to operate a war industry under the closed shop, which is what such a system would mean. Since the WING has authority to tell you where to work, controls releases, etc. they can make you work in a plant, but can't force you to join wnion. In the pre-war days, if factory was closed shop and you didn't want to join the union, they could always say, Well, if you don't like 1t, go get a joh. some place else" But them days is gone, and you pretty much have to stay where you are. therefore making