The union times., 1944-11-18
As We See It. by The Staff

(Continued from Page One) SIPS billion, should put one-third of the units in low income brackets, renting at $3O month.
 JOE ROURKE is still in France, if we have read correctly between the lines of the letter we have just received from the Senator. Joe. as you know, is chief in the Seabees, and we hear on good authority that the results of the election were very pleasing to him. Joe will play an important part in Connecticut cleo lions when the war is over.
 IN A new report just published, the Department of Labor con- firmed organized labor's repeated contention that Overlong working hours do not yield higher produc- ton.
 Based upon an intensive study of war plants, the Departments re- port declared that, with few ex- captions, the longer working time in the plants studied resulted in a general slowing down, not only dur ing the added hours but through out the entire work week.
 Available evidence indicates that, on the whole, the 5-day week and 8-hOur day are more efficient than a longer work schedule." the report added. ''The data shows clearly that workers adjust them selves to longer hours by slowing down, not because they want to, but because they have to-"
 Excessive hours were also blamed for sharply increased ab- senteeism and injury rates among workers.
 THIS bit came over the wire at Station WHO, Des Moines, Ia.:
 ''SpOrts Max Baer' convalescing with stOve-up back.'
 No doubt one of those Joe Louis threw at him in the ring several years ago.
 EVEN Alexander Graham Bell would get chuckle out of this telephOnic story: A reporter, who took the item over the phone, wrote about a farmers loss of 2,O25 pigs by theft. The copyreader thought the figure high, SO he called the farmer and asked: ''Did you lose 2,O25 pigs?" And, when the farmer answers s'Yeth," the alert copyreader said Thanks ; and changed the copy to read: ''Two sows and 25 pigs"
 JOEY FEINMARK, son of Mir and Mrs. Harold V. Feinmark, paid surprise visit of a few hours to family last weekend, Joey, who is in the Navy, has been across fol the last seven months, and wat under fire when troops and sup plies were landed in southern France. He has also been in Africa Italy, England, and Belfast, Ire land.
 ENLIGHTENED Employer: Some benighted employers are looking forward to slashing of wages and smashing of unions in the postwar period, but far-sighted employers arc raising fheir voices against such a policy.
 Latest to do so is the EIectronic Corporation of America, located in New York and 100 per cent union. ized. The corporation has pub- lished cOlorful 4O-page pamphlet, entitled, "A Plan for America at Peace,' which champions the proposition that high wages, na- tiOn-wide collective bargaining and joint labOr-management planning can bring about full employment.
 Americas postwar goal, the corporation said, should be ca high annual wage for labor, made pOs- sible by industry-wide agreements and by steady and peak turn over of goods yielding smaller profits on each unit but a greater overall profit on total production. g
 The corporation also paid a glowing tribute to the war produc- ton record of labor.
 ''The output of industry has been the work of millions of Amer ican workers,'' it said. ''And be- hind them are their trade unions. It is to the credit of these unions A. F. of L., C. l. O., and Rail- road Brotherhoods- the ma- chimes of war were fueled, shipped