| Show On the Home Front All Work No p Pw Can Make Male Jack War Job Absentee By JAMES MARLOW and GEORGE NEW YORK YORI March 5 W All Cm-All All Allwork Al work and no play makes Jack and Jill what what Jf-what what Not only dull dul but maybe an absentee from a war wr job Would you Feel ill I at ease If It you went Into a war plant where you knew no noon noone noone on one and were Just given a number and a job to do Or feel teel a lot better beter If you were introduced to your tel fellow ow workers and put in touch with those tose who like to do the same things as you yu yuIn In work off-work hours like hours like bowling or The Industrial Recreation association asso elation believes so It l says that a worker who has hasgood hasgood ha good recreation and teamwork with wt his hia fellows in n a plant is more willing to go 10 back there tere to his hia job every ever day Nonprofit Group The Te association Is I a 8 nonprofit organization which is trying tying to get industrialists interested in seeIng seeing seeing see see- ing that their workers have some means of ot recreation after working hours Recreation the association says eases a workers worker's mind and nervous nerous tension and builds hI his up muscles all al of ot which would mean better plant morale and better beter production production tion lon with wit a decrease In absenteeism absentee absentee- ism and labor turnover A worker unhappy and discontented discontented discon discon- I discon-I tented in one plant is I. apt to look look for work in another Lack of ot recreation of course oure is i I Ionly only one of the causes of ot absen But But war plant workers looking for recreation sometimes I take time off of the te job to find it 4 There Tere are war plants plant which have extensive recreation programs for their workers worker but the te number of i ithem them s seems ema comparatively few A plant plat that tat has one however I often ofen employs a time full tul recreation recreation tion ton director to handle the te program program pro pro- pr- pr I gram which is treated as an Important import important im im- Im- Im port part of personnel relations The Te association organized in I 1941 is supported by Industries Can Ask Alk Association A plant with wit no recreation program program pro pro- gram gam can write to the te association headed by Dr Floyd R. R R Eastwood Eastwood Eastwood East East- wood of ot Purdue Prue university university-at at Lafayette La L- L layette fayette Ind md stating its It problem and the te association will wU send in information information In- In f formation on how similar problems have been solved solve elsewhere plus s suggestions for tor a program The association declares that tat one way to make a new feel at ease in a plant and consider himself part of ot the te plants plant's teamwork team tea work is for tor management to do a good job at the time of hiring hir him By finding out what the te workers worker's workers worker's workers worker's work work- ers er's interests are and putting him himor or her in touch as soon as possible with plant plan t minded like minded individuals In I the te Heres Here's the te association viewpoint Recreation ranges from passive types types bridge bridge dramatics and chess to to more active types such suc as a softball basketball and bowling To be effective industrial recreation recreation should include all oll aton al classifications physical physical social cultural and outing Production fitness and morale of the te worker depend more on onI I what he d does es in work off work of-work periods than Ithan i tan when he ho works Mental and andI I disability and resulting i nervousness decrease production and reduce efficiency t |
