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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-09-27, Page 3• Who's To Blame pot' "Feath 'rbedding"? For yetis, live word "feather- bedding" hos almost automatical- ly evole'd,images of union de- errand:, strikes, E.nd abused tint - players. But a study just publish - t cl and underwritten by the Fund for the Republic suggests that the stereotype may be wrong. "Dead ilorsc crud the Feather - bird," by Paul ,laeobs, delves deeply into the origins of "un - wok" --the author's term for fea- therbedding—in the newspaper and airline industries, and eon- etudes that blame for spread -the - work practices must be spread liberally among employers and the. f;ovornnient as well as the workers. Jacobs, a labor expert at the University of California in Berk- eley, asserts that the "dead horse" —newspaper copy which h reset although it arrives ready to run (or has run before)—was foaled not only by the typesetters' pro- tests against I'eady-made mats but also by the employers; the latter insisted on resetting as a means of raising the labor costs of competitors who used mats extensively. In the airline indus- try, Jacobs' one-year study found that the "feat'herbird"—an idle crewman who crouches in the back of the cockpit—is not mere- ly the upshot of the pilots' and flight engineers' demands for more ,jobs, but also of the man- agement's and government's in- ability to develop clear-cut per- sonnel policies. More than anything else, Jacobs blames featherbedding on job Losses duo to automation, "If ien employee isiven choice g a L vee be- tween doing 'unwmk' and not working at all," he says, "he will choose the 'unwork'," Is there a way out? While his study lists no examples, Jacobs believes that "slow and systema - tie" introduction of machinery, such as took place in English Weal mines, is preferable to all- out automation, which he blames for the widespread unemploy- ment among U.S. miners. "Why should it be improper to place limitations on those exten- sions of technology which seri- ously injure (labor)?" he asks in. his report, "Today, society must judge technology not by what it brings in benefits of efficiency but also by the social costs," If automation is allowed to proceed uncontrolled, Jacob s snaintains, it might bring an Or- wellian future where "only an elite" will be gllowgd to hold the few jobs available." Trying To Pierce Earth's Core Scientists in many parts of the world began a new international operative project last January/ he Upper 1VIant a Project, a three-year study of the interior of the Earth. Most glamorous item on the agenda is the Mohole, the U.S. attempt to drill through the crust into the mantle, using oil -well drilling methods, offshore in the Caribbean. Present idea of the planet's structure is that at the very heart there is a solid core, surrounded by a liquid core, enveloped in a mantle on top of which is a crust. The crust is composed of basalt with a topping of granite. Wrin- kles in the granite are known, to the inhabitants, as "mountains". Canada's Precambrian Shield is a very old layer, of rock which is also very thin in some places, The Geogolical Survey of Can- ada will coordinate the drilling of two 10,000 -foot holes in the Shield. They hope to reach the mantle and get some samples. "Many adults drive snore reek- Aessly than teenagers," says a re- port. They've had more practice, NEW LOOK ---- Coming soon for some 30,000 U.S. postai clerks is this trim uniform modeled by Mrs. • Bonnie Del Vecchio Lady clerks will wear ti matching Peking blue fitted iacket with a blue and/or white blouse. Male clerks also will wear o blue jacket. A:.: AGE FIRST . - First express shipment in history by air- plane took place on Nov. 7, 1910 when Phillip 0. Parmelee, shown in old photograph above, flew a 60 -pound bolt of silk in u Wright biplane from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio, On Sept 1, 1927 the first fleet of airplanes began regularly scheduled air cargo service — now known as REA Express. U 5 airlines are observing the 35th anniversary of that event by designating September as "Air Express Month," Traffic Chases Street Entertainers A lone baggy-trousered figure sat on the end stool in rows of slatted wooden seats ranged. along the covered side of a West End theatre, He wore a battered bowler, His S clothes were thread- bare. h ea -bare. "Two stools please," we said. We soon learned our mistake, "I ain't nothin' to do with this lot, I's just Paddy. The stool guy's in the cafe if you want 'im," he said. His Irish brogue was overlaid with Cockney The stoolman emerged later. We paid a shilling for two seats and sat on them, waiting for the gallery door of the theatre to open. These "gallery stools" are an old London custom for assur- ing first come first served. Our friend "just Paddy" stood around. We were puzzled. Sud- denly he started a floppy tap dance, slowly at first, then gathering speed. His worn boots slapped the asphalt. Then he sang a mournful Irisll ballad, Suddenly, as at some invisible signal, we all stud, Tlie pro- prietor collected the seats. "Just Paddy" stopped singing, and seeing he hacl just time to bring the hat around, collected a few coins. The last 1 saw of him were. the tails of his old Morning coat, flapping defiantly as he disap- peared into the cafe, "Just Paddy" is one of Lon- don's ondon's buskers or street enter- tainers — spoonbashers, tum- blers, escapists, jazz) ands, po- etry readers, ballad singers — who are being hounded off the streets by the necessity to "keep the traffic flowing." A • legal sorting out is going on. It looks as though "just Paddy" was on the right side of the law because he had not assembled a crowd. The people were already there when he started performing. Other buskers, tapping out rhythms at the curbside or in the roadway, however, are "moved on" and sometimes hauled before the courts and :fined for causing an obstruc- tion. "The Road Stars," a team of three, well known around Lei- cester Square are threatened with having to leave their pitch by the frequent fines they have paid for obstruction. This three- man team, in red fezzes, striped night shirts, and polished black boots, are a familiar sight to theatre and cinema goers wait- ing for the evening performan- ces. Fos' them the bombshell fell the last time they were called before "the beak" (magistrate), No more appearances in court, the magistrate said. It will be prison, not fines, next time, writes Melita Knowles in The Christian Science Monitor. The case won sympathy from many who feel the buskers are Part of the tradition althe streets of London's theeta•eland. "Why roust the police try to drive the buskers permanently off the streets?" asks a corres- pondent to The Times, of Lon- don. "Buskers make people laugh and are in English Lradi- U00. On both counts they should have full public support and pro. tection," wrote 5, M. ITernby of W. H. Smith & Sona The drift of artists from West Enol pavements began before World War I when the German bands were recalled to fight for the fatherland. Later, Messeliitd, recalled the Italian organ -grind Obey the traffic signs — they are placed there for YOUR SAFETY. ors, A well-known pitch outside I the National Portrait Gallery, disappeared to make way for I the statue of the actor, Henry { Irving, Now the Minister of Trans- port's one-way schelne has brok- en up the "dodge and let docige" game which buskers and police played for so long. Some busk- ers adopt the "six-inch shuffle" to keep an the right side of the law which says they must keep moving. "Is this the end of the road?" asked the Road Stars Trio .when the magistrate threatened prison next time. For five weeks they decided it was, They disappeared down East, working the docks and the markets of Whitechapel and Canning Town. Then something happened to bring them back again with a swinging "Here We Are Again." A Bow Street magistrate dismis- sed a summons alleging obstruc- tion by another street enter- tainer, saying he was not sure that it was not the crowd which was causing the obstruction, When They Stockpile They Don't fool! Corrupt? — no, it wasn't cor- rupt. Bizarre and fantastic if you like, but almost certainly hot corrupt. Those who have followed the stockpile investigations by Sen- ator Stuart Symington (0), of Missouri, call it one of Washing- ton's strangest stories. But how to classify it? Billie Sol Estes is under indictment for alleged fraud. The price fixing by Gen- eral Electric and Westinghouse was a conspiracy. But this af- fair was carried through by a partnership of government and business for the loftiest motive — national defense. Curiously enough it was also used to justi- fy a more questionable opera- SAUY'S SALLIES 'tCan'E you convince your boss that is steed more spending money?" 'tun, tilt in t o.ining prieefv in ,t'(• - .Everybody agreed is Ube 50's that it would be a good idea to have a store of strategic com- modities for war. So the pro- gram began. First it was plan - nod for a five-year war, then a three-year war, and then the length of the war seems to heve been manipulated, longer or shorter, to justify continued purchases of certain goods. And here a new goal was .added, pur- chasing goods to keep up de- pressed prices. In broad terms Congress authorized the stock purchases for defense. But Congress didn't like to pry into details. When security clearance was lifted last January ocld things were diseov- ered. We have a bloated sup- ply of many commodities — seven years' of tin, for example. And somewhere along the way a price -support program was add- ed People argue the merits of federal price support; it is used for farm products every day. But the great oddity about -this program was that Congress never specifically authorized it. And it was instituted behind the scenes to aid certain favored in- dustries. Take lead and zinc. By 1954 the defense objects of the pro- gram were virtually satisfied. But lead and zinc industries were in a bad way. So with only limited explanations the administration bought an addi- tional 760,000 tons to sustain prices, "Political critics of the pro - I posed purchase," wrote E. H, Weaver, assistant director for materials in the Office of De- fense Mobilization, June 24, 1954, to Director Arthur S. Flemming, might find fault. They might charge, Mr. Weaver warned, 'that businessmen in the gov- ernment 'bailed out' big busi- ness firms." This was because, he said, the big firms would pro- fit; "mast of the small domestic mines," he said, were closed or bankrupt. But the administration went ahead. The late Republican Senator Henry Dworshak, of Idaho, told the press last month of accompanying a delegation to the White House three times in 1954. General Eisenhower per- sonally approved using the stra- tegic stockpile to subsidize the domestic lead and 1Sdustry, he said. One beneficial' St, Joseph Lead C s s the next four years' ant of the govern ness and a pa got $53,950,000 companies shi. business, and ness, writes Rig the Christian .y Who organize'ct �`. .m? Helping in the tr;. x E. Wormser, who I,' . Jos- eph Lead to beu''a=.y,: °s^sistant Secretary of the I'iterior for Mineral Resources and who later went back to St. Joseph Lead. The Symington committee heard Mr, Wormser testify and went On to other matters. On Aug. 23, 1964, General Eisenhower's press secretary, Jaynes Hagerty, issued a press release saying the President was making new lead and zinc pur- chases "in an expanded stock- piling program for strengthen- ing the lead and zinc industry, as an integral part of the na- tion's a- tion's defense mobilization base," He did not explain that the purchases were in excess of stockpile needs. 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