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Absentee posters. Charts provide an effective method for showing workers how absenteeism hinders the war effort. This graph is used by the Nordberg Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It shows the total number of absentees and the amount of production lost during the month of July, 1942

Absentee posters. Charts provide an effective method for showing worke...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Thanksgiving, 1942. Cooperation in industry. America's employees and employers throughout the country answered the call for more production for victory by setting up 1,650 labor-management councils, representing more than 3,200,000 workers. These committees concentrate their united energies on improving production, speeding operations, reducing absenteeism, and eliminating waste. Here, a labor-management committee of the Anthracite industry in Pennsylvania confers on the ways and means of increasing production in the mines

Thanksgiving, 1942. Cooperation in industry. America's employees and e...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a group of people, United States politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

War production drive. The labor-management committee in the Minneapolis plant of the Northern Pump Company had trouble with absenteeism, especially Saturday nights and Sundays. To overcome this, door prizes were distributed among the men who worked on those shifts. This photograph shows the announcements of $1,250 in weekly prize money. Since this picture was taken, the plant has been placed on a full seven-day schedule and prizes are no longer necessary to keep all shifts operating

War production drive. The labor-management committee in the Minneapoli...

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Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Earl M. Qualls, car dumper operator at Watts Bar, is job steward of the Hod Carriers' local union on TVAuthority, and is active in combatting absenteeism and in furthering war bond Red Cross drives

Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Earl M. Qualls,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Absentee posters. To combat absenteeism, the labor-management committee of the American Screw Company, Providence, displays this chart with daily figures on absentees and translates this loss of man hours in terms of lost production of the company's product

Absentee posters. To combat absenteeism, the labor-management committe...

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Absentee posters. Charts provide an effective method for showing workers how absenteeism hinders the war effort. This graph is used by the Nordberg Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It shows the total number of absentees and the amount of production lost during the month of July, 1942

Absentee posters. Charts provide an effective method for showing worke...

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A humorous--and positive--approach to the problem of absenteeism is presented in this poster used by the production drive committee of the Chickasaw Ordnance Works, Millington, Tennessee. The poster was designed by an employee of the plant

A humorous--and positive--approach to the problem of absenteeism is pr...

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No absenteeism here. Knoxville, Tennessee. As he threw the switch that started the first generators of Tenessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Douglas Dam, a vital war power-production unit, Patrick P. Marshall, steam-fitter, said: "I realized that any day I was absent was a day given to the enemy." Marshall had been on the job for 374 consecutive workdays. He was chosen among eighteen workers, all of whom never missed a day of work on Douglas, to speak for the employees. He is shown here being congratulated by W.L. Batt, War Production Board (WPB) vice-chairman, on the completion of a job that is making aluminum for bombers ahead of schedule

No absenteeism here. Knoxville, Tennessee. As he threw the switch that...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Absentee posters. How absenteeism helps the Axis is dramatically presented to the workers of the Nordberg Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in this display outside the company's plant

Absentee posters. How absenteeism helps the Axis is dramatically prese...

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Absentee posters. The labor-management committee of the Kearney and Trecker Corportation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, uses this poster to discourage absenteeism caused by "payday hangovers"

Absentee posters. The labor-management committee of the Kearney and Tr...

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Absentee posters. How absenteeism helps the Axis is dramatically presented to the workers of the Nordberg Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in this display outside the company's plant

Absentee posters. How absenteeism helps the Axis is dramatically prese...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Bell Aircraft Corp., Niagara Falls, New York. Simple device for curbing absenteeism is this AWOL card put up on the board near the time clock

Bell Aircraft Corp., Niagara Falls, New York. Simple device for curbin...

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Buffalo, New York. Once a week, as employees of the day shift leave the Ross Heater plant at 4:00 p.m., one name is drawn from a bag containing names of all those with perfect attendance for the week. The person whose name is drawn wins a twenty-five dollar bond. This plan helps combat absenteeism. The nurse is in charge of the first aid department

Buffalo, New York. Once a week, as employees of the day shift leave th...

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Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Earl Tulloss is a skilled operator of a dragline capable of moving a fifth of a carload of coal at once. He is president of the Hod Carriers' local union at Watts Bar Steam Plant of TVA, and is active in labor-management campaigns for sale of war bonds, and reduction of absenteeism

Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Earl Tulloss is...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Absentee posters. The labor-management committee of the Kearney and Trecker Corportation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, uses this poster to discourage absenteeism caused by "payday hangovers"

Absentee posters. The labor-management committee of the Kearney and Tr...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More