Show Chevrolet News I With the announcement of the new Chevrolet 1933 models there was renewed employment of more than workers in the plants and salesrooms of the Chevrolet Motor 1 Company it was stated staled by W S Knudsen president and gen gen- general gen gen- general general eral manager This number represents a l complete com com- compete complete pete normal working force Mr Ir Knudsen explained About are on direct Chevrolet payrolls in inthe inthe the company's 20 domestic plants the centra central office group and fac- fac factory factory fac factory I tory sales forces in the field An additional are employed in inthe inthe the eight Fisher body plants that adjoin Chevrolet assembly plants plants- plants men who work exclusively on Chev I Fisher rolet-Fisher bodies To these are added dealers and their I salesmen who got into full swing with the first public showing of the new cars December i j Mr Knudsen said eaid that assem assem- assembly assembly bly by operations h had d gotten underway under I Iway way in late November and early I I December and that all nil eight i plants are now fully staffed and andI I turning out the new now line in grad grad- gradually uny increasing asing volume The pro pro- program program gram of manufacturing enough ears cars to furnish each of the compan company's com com- pan pany's 8 dom domestic dealers with display models was carried out very closely to schedule According to Mr Knudsen the lull full quota of people directly de- de dependent dependent de dependent pendent on Chevrolet operations for a livelihood are assured of em- em employment em employment through me the winter and spring the number of hours work naturally depending on the extent c e tent of the demand for the new nev cars Ho lie added that tt by following n a sliding scale cale of work work hours A n a policy carried out by rot for several years jears tho company compan is able to adjust production to demand with little variation in the number num num- number number ber of workers actually employed As an nn instance of this he pointed out that thou though h operations on the 1932 Chevrolet were discontinued in September the lowest number of I employees throughout 1932 was as asI I reached reached in the week ended October when the payrolls still carried names within of the present total This was ed cd by staggering inventory regu regu- regu- regu regulating regulating lating hours of work per week to meet demands or given given manufacturing manufacturing ing departments and by using workers on pattern too tool and die operations and plant rearrange rearrange- rearrangement ment |