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[kris_reid]

"But the major lines are based on hand fitting and finishing to be really acceptable, and the workmen in the gun plants, symbolizing the very mass market needed in order to survive, seem unwilling to do a full day's work to produce honestly the things they want to buy. In the words of one firm's leading shooting promoter, "You are doing darn good from management's point of view if you get 14 hours work out of a machine employee in a40 hour week." His buddy, even longer in the business and skilled at every manufacturing and design operation, added, "With coffee breaks and long lunches and holidays and paid vacations-some of the guys even read magazines on the job-it's a wonder we're still in business." Accustomed to working late nights and weekends in his engineering department to get things done, he had short patience with the hourly-paid employee whose only thought from the moment he punched in was to get home "without killing the job." My own experience in this "killing the job" notion had been at the factory of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford back in 1947. Many of its workmen also worked in the gun trade from time to time. My own job was a new operation on crankcase halves: four a day was the rate performed by my successor. Gradually I increased production until one evening I finished the 13th crankcase half for that day in the half hour between clean-up and quitting bells, and still had time to wash, change, and punch out when the bell rang. "Slow down, you're killing the job" was the sentiment I heard from all sides, yet these engine components were going into aircraft which it turned out our soldiers needed for air cover a couple of years later in Korea. It's a sobering thought to the veteran and sportsman today, to consider that his buddy may be dead from lack of support in battle caused by fear of "killing the job." Unquestionably, a new sentiment will have to be born in the machine operators and the assemblers in our great gun factories if they are to survive."
На дворе был 1961 год...