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W
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I
DON
IDDON'S DIARY
a
dung a litle forecas.ing A: Fast half a million
Hayworth
resihence, and comeback power than Harry S. Truman
Bankh d Anyway, Talli
The has not lost 15: tress made
the major OTLC of campaign speeches on hell of the President in the last obertiza do the same and she ready agan
Clothes are cheaper, and even Latest Futs are less expensive. Jasinon is to have coloured furs platinu Ins sapphire and Topaz mink
Profit-sharing
In America Brings Rewards
By Rodney Campbell
NEW YORK. N American castings firm was about to go
pense profits all over the neigh- bourhood.
The figure of 330 is a tiny segment of American industry
out of business. as a whole - but what is being Management and hired proved is that profit-sharing hands, worn out by months Arms are very definitely
than successful of failure and depression, sharing firms.
were at the end of their tether.
As a last resource the Board called in an outside
efficiency expert. Hiram Nicholas, to take over. His first act was to call a mass meeting of workers.
more non-profit-
A most outstanding example was that last year a firm under- cut its competitors by more its workers more. than 10 percent, but still paid
The reason? New ideas sub- mitted by workers interested in their firm's success.
NEW CONCEPT
to
"Will you make me the finest castings in the State of Ohio?" he asked them. "If you can, then you'll be AR rich 1144 am. Make management relations them, and you can have 45 clear. percent of all my profits be- fore taxes-that is, if we have any profits; it depends on you.
Competition is beginning be tough for the non-profi- sharing firms, and U.S. labour-
hope the teason is becoming
BUSINESS BOOM
own
experts
Mr William Loch present chairman of the Council, says a possible reason why the practice of profit-sharing has grown re- Intively slowly over long period is tha it involves B changed concept of the re- lation between management and the worker.
"Under profit-sharing, the worker becomes the single most factor in the busi- important
Today that company is still in business, and its everything workers lu entertainment it fieorge from cars and refrigerators ness," he explains.
who has become to their own homes in the Bernard Show Hdway's bigs:st box-office suburbs. dipa The laty playwright has They are paid standard three revivals rug smul-
She is very relieved that the needy and drawing £30,000 foundry wages Ohio is in
י
verdict:
weekly
Vickers
of
have not
"Sharing increases the dignity of the individual, but it uiso means participation in the business by the worker to a de- gree which some segments the £25 to £35 a week basic American industry pay range-but in addition been able to absorb.
"It has also ter hard to they draw on the average
against co-operating another £10 to £20 a week ercome the prejudies of some That is why profit-sharing is frum the company's profits. w the bess in the front office.
The firm was the richer mo
mostly practise: know-how dustries with more progressive by hundreds of ideas offered by workers at nanagements, in those industries of business. It without labour unions or with all levels
unions headed by the younger was the richer in spirit, re- element in the labour move-
from volun- ment." Turner has signed aflecting itself seven-year contraet starting at tary overtime to sparetime,
TWO-SIDED $5,000 per week and increasing firm sports, games, dramatic
Another long-term societies, and so on.
trial of her former maid aver and is jubilant at the cerdict.
Twendeth Conturs-Fox have The case Itus redounded to her
Dupiane du Maurier's then bought Kity kept The benefit
men
have new book, "My Cousin Rachel, **** heads Lesper
Miss which is said to be her best, so is a choppy my i
brought
it must be good. Sarah Chau chil Batihend not guilty?" Tailulah voyage down the bay. Reweils wil be mind hera pray Brush Common
because it was never very clear has a new television show turning American
will appear states- og at the
longes whe Smpara 10
was on trial.
right and ceremonies and star. I hope her men are usually greeted by woda, and
Franchet Ten will be in thing came out all
The Talla father will have time to see the three or four ship's news
iumphed Justice the, dines
show. reporters
photogra-
huli, tulon is over, phers. Rita Hayworth only
L
But every-
Civil Liberties
des
Lana
mistress
and Of
they
Two nundred and fv: Republ:- draws a small crowd, and cans wil declare that the State most film and stage stars Department is infested with Reds
every year merely rate cubs and office and Communists and M. Dean
contract is Clifton Webb's for other ped! DUT many Acus is on the phone to
Its sales prices were run- 14 years.
This is the trend in boys.
Kr.
General Eisenhower D main en ræt. Cival Fitn
43 and ning between 10 percent and taken a beating during Hollywood-sewing General bave
up the talent so But Mr Churchill will be will run for President.
20 percent less than its com- the past year and the number signing not run for met
Saturday on
by Eisenhower will
petitors'. So business was of purges turns liberal stomachs cannot walk out. President Franchot Toe will hundreds of newspaper-
The film "Que Vadis?" despite blooming. As an alien I am not bothered editors, be in the neadings. men, columnists,
much. I have been Angerprinted, all the harsh things said about is making money on the radio commentators, Princess Margaret will be re- hat so hus every other Britisher it,
foreigner
scale, barring the "Gone With The Wind" all of whom have applied for portid engaged a six different
even uutgross the cutter passes. In fact, the dukes, earls, and leris. The atin diplomats. I have signed several and it might
by mb, the jet plane, radar, tele- sheaves of documents, pledges, Southern spectacle. will probably coast guard
pronunce- tapaste will all protestations, and Visith and
declart d have to lay on two calters 42
American Inven to handle the Press multi-ens. tude.
The Master Mind
WHEN Winston Churchill Tone will be in the headlines.
comes to New York all
or
nels---but who hasn't?
And oh, yes, Preston North the town turns out. America End will mish the season ameng awaits the great man with the top three in the First Divi-
it sin palpitating eagerness.
of
Lonely lass
"If profit-sharing can work in my fis," Mr Nicholas thought, "why can't it be used on a national level, to increase America's prosperity!"
Three years
therefore, ago, Mr Nicholas founded th"
a
group
in newer in-
The unton view
of profit- sharing here is two-sided.
The traditional "closed-shop" union men don't like it because giving good management workers more than they often сап
The
younger labour leaders are for it; 38 percent of Coun- members have strong unions in their firms, and relations are excellent.
"In those compantes", one union
worker, man said, "the keep the managers
on their toes. They know their take- home pay depends on the boss's efficiency and they watch him closely.
to
of
i have to queue to get in- Br. in will be described as come-tax clearance when lake
of Gracie America-wide Council of Profit- country, and THE engagement
Industries, thushud, broken, busted, and also a trip out of the
Fields to Boris Alberovich Sharing "Where's so powerful and ever and 19-
officials bellow: the
corne are did not
as a great sur- ranging from the giant 120,000- sourceful that its really run-
your record" and "What
} knew she had been worker Sears and Roebuck store ning the United States, Franchot you doing here?" but as
my prise
Monty Banks and mail order corporation wile doesn't wear a mink coat very lonely since
firms employing died. All happiness to Lanca- tiny family 1 can keep my head up.
fewer than a dozen people. shire's most famous lass. Outwardly the American way
British Ambassador Sir Oliver SUCCESSORS life goes smoothly. In New York the women have been out Franks writes to me "The Inky
Way Christmas swapping doing their
is as stuffed sees him as a super-states- It would be dangerous to take early, and the stores are holding papermen's book) man and master-magician, in tue much
in the January sales and trying to get with good things as a Christmas
rid I think, for of the goods they could not pudding is with currants." the answer to some of the forecasting field.
instance. many people are sell at Christmas. Prices have wave world's problems at a
underestimating
down drastically, President Tru- been marked of his Havana.
The Truman Administra- and there is even a hint that tion is in trouble. It is mired food is going to cost less. One of in
scandals. beleaguered and these days maybe you will be unsure of itself, but there never able to get restaurant steak was a man with greater bounce, for 25.
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Usually isolationist papers are putting out the wel
"We ali come mat. They say:
bu: please don't let us give lum our shirt," The Hearst Press, very much changed since
William Randolp died, is running Churchill's life a sort of combined
uld
story tribute and hints and tips to readers on how to live to be 77 and and drink what you want
world's greatest turn out the
man
The preparations are almost 10 response Embarrassing. In queries British Embassy spokes- men have said jocularly: "Mr Churchill's tastes are very simple he is easily pleased with the best
Most of everything." Americans are ready to lay the best on the line.
After seeing Blocks of Labour politicians come here during the
years and watching PIN Izw them flop and fumble
it is a
delight to have Britain repre- sented by a man of such stature. Seeing booms
THIS Free more prople czle. brated the New Year in their own home and at private
man.
territory
INSIDE THE
T
New York. HERE is H terrible fascination about the very name Sing Sing. It is
of part
the American language as it is part of the American scene.
Annual (British
news-
Оле thing Europe certainly seems to be united on asking for more American aid.
"Profit-sharing also culs out waste of materials and waste time. Every worker is a watchdog against the shirker, who is losing everybody money.
Some of the profit-sharing schemes are plain and simple cash hand-outs. Workers pre- fer it that way, and when the
"ittle bit extra" comes
round hand-out system is in force the
twice or four times every year. Council, There is always a Christmas
nest egg, too.
Mr Nicholas is now dead, but
Brms of the Council. he has 330 successors - member
All kinds of businesség
on the represented
are
to
though it would be untrue say that the majority of In other cases, the firm pays American employers are only it two ways half the percen- FOOTNOTE: Let us make too willing to open their tage to the worker in cash, and look-before-you-leap | books to Tom, Dick and Harry the other half to a firm perisions
of the assembly lines, and dis-
1052 year.
а
HOUSE OF BROKEN
-By- BEVERLEY BAXTER
That is
kindly
a
were
fund.
LIVES
а
A few bad intelligent faces, delighted to show everything to
An attendant in charge of the the visitor from England. some were obviously perverts, death chamber wished us "What's It like outside?" he others had a low cunning in "Merry Christmas." There was asked. "It's 20 years strice I've their eyes, but
most of them
the electric chair looking as if scen it,"
Just subnormal types it belonged to
And a dentist, doomed from the start by everything was as shining and He had murdered a man and heredity and squalor.
spotless as an operating room. was reprieved on the eve of his
Across the hall, which But a good Christmas dinner execution. *Merry Christmas, was waiting for them, and a grimly called the "Dance Hall" Charlie," said Kelley.
cinema show 10 follow, unless by tradition, are the condemned
go to they preferred to
the prisoners in the cells, Behind "Merry Christmas," said the gymnasium or walk about the the chair is a trolley to lake radio murderer.
grounds.
est.
me
18
that
wall with observa- Again and again in Holly- There is a wood films we have heard tion turrets where armed guards do their own stretch of eight
the body away to a spotless about the Big House, and hours, but it might be a factory
Like "Now I would
you to autopsy room, where there is a AT least 30 times more I was
cells," neat pile of cheap wooden, has been or a milit
military ramp set against how a gunman
to hear that greeting as we went see the good conduct about the place. No one seem said Kelley. In a day of sur- coffins, Perhaps because it was sent "up the river." Ameri- a beautiful vista of the river. cans joke
about
Principal Keeper Kelley weled to think there was anything prises this was to be the great- Christmas the attendant asked nearly
If I would like to sit in the everything but never about comed me cordially. He is a big unusual about it.
with Irish-American
surprised In each cell, with plenty of chaly, and seemed eyes, who said: "Perhaps you It was time for the inmates to daylight, was an iron bed, a when I said "No." Sing Sing.
for their Christmas reading lamp, a bookcase, a But I had seen enough. Ten With New York in the would like to see some of the parade
people
water, human beings were in who are making a dinner. They were all wander- writing table, running
The bars of house of tragedy and shame. A grip of Christmas I won. Christmas visit to the inmates." ing about the grounds in groups and a lavatory.
festival dered how
the word that is with no restrictions on conversa- the door permitted conversation coward, I had only one wish the
to got out to the world they
would never see again. would be observed in the always used. I never once heard tion and no guarda mingling with prisoners on each side.
any references to prisoners or with them. This was, of course,
holiday
spent that night convicts, farhous prison.
friend at his country house Just then the prisoners' band,
It "But Is this a sufficient deter- in Connecticut,
W29 п let by a little Negro, started tip
beautiful
á clear night with a military march and the crowd rent to crime?" I asked.
"Our iden sky, perhaps not unlike the sky Kelley answered: the visitors' room there walked in an easy-going pro- the trickle of table reservations that if I arrived at eleven was a fat Negress talking across cossion past the guarda to the in to convince the inmates that when the shepherds, saw the
agon dining hall.
sotlety does not hate them, and star 2,000 years ago The trouble le many of them
When it was time to go she Not one of the guards was to send then out wanting to be I had been to the House of
Shame, where men are
herded Image minimum price of on Christmas morning Frin- the table to her son. between £0 and £10 per person cipal Keeper Kelley would leaned across the table and armed except with a truncheon, decent citizens.
It does not work in every together for the protection of without drinks
gently patted his cheek.
Woo nothing to be waiting at the gates,
then she hurried out past us so prevent those criminals over case, but the balance la in cur society, guarded by wall whers entries keep their vigil Hundreds of thousands were The small town of Orgining that he would not see her tears, whelming the eight guards, to favour,"
lauch of and swift death threatens, not prepared to spend
Then, with just a verandaed "More than half these we don't carry guts," said professional pride, he said the
nothing of the visitor,
But think I saw the spirit sums, do cabarets crumpled and, with a wooden
houses id about 35 miles from are daricies," sald Kelley. wafters withered.
New York, and there, if you He took me to the radio Kelley, "because if they were he was certain we would like of Christ in that prison, not they to see the death chamber, And, only, in the fears of the mother- lined Blanning a breakaway But the foricnets were almost make your way to the Hudson centre. Every cell
znight got the guna wamous for another bum-Blyer, you will find the prison. up for two programmes.
But it is not easy to discover per year for business. Everyone
with I communicated in the ewagter parties than
town. Managers Governor Dewey's office in spet around locked glam all yesterday at Albany, and received word
In
And In fout there
old
with Bry
The scalör man in charge of us and use thier sky from as we walked there he latőrinótt, but In the guards, and the
me that nine men and one werden frying « to rebuilt the By that time I had lost any woman were awaiting execu- characters of men broken by lé gasing kito the clouded crystal the entrance, for there is no broadcasting had one features
le might dues feeling that these men were tion, telling, a last-minute the world that had no place
reprieve..
for them. bàn and eosing continuing boomshus ginomy for lics that sugweled
Pentonvilla "Windworth, have been an artist. He was criminals or creatures apart," here
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