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Mary Petillo, forelady of a Newark, New Jersey factory making lamp bulbs and tubes for the Signal Corps, is an active member of her plant's laboratory management committee. The committee, set up in cooperation with the War Production Board's drive to speed victory, was elected in Mary's plant from a personnel of 1700, 350 of them men. Vice-president of her local, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, Congress of Industrial Organization, Mary achieved the job of forelady by working working as a hand at many varied operations. She has made a suggestion to conserve bakelite lamp bases formerly discarded--a suggestion now in use at the plant--and is also the inventor of an apparatus which prevents short-circuiting during tests of lamps

Mary Petillo, forelady of a Newark, New Jersey factory making lamp bul...

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Vice-President of her local, United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), Mary achieved the job of forelady by working as a hand at many varied operations. She has made a suggestion to conserve bakelite lamp bases, formerly discarded (a suggestion now in use at the plant), and is also the inventor of an apparatus which prevents short-circuiting during tests of lamps. Mary Petillo, forelady of a Newark, New Jersey factory making lamp bulbs and tubes for the Signal Corps, is an active member of her plant's Labor-Management drive to speed victory. She was elected from a plant personnel of 1700, 350 of them men

Vice-President of her local, United Electrical Radio and Machine Worke...

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