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Show lob Control by Agreement "What is an Employment Stabilization Stab-ilization Plan?" Milan T. Old-royd, Old-royd, Manager of the U. S. Employment Em-ployment Office in Richfield, has been asked. Not many folks can answer that. Some people know little about this vital program of job control, a few know quite a lot about it and all too many wouldn't recognize it if they met in the middle of the street at high noon. This must be remedied. rem-edied. Briefly, an employment stabilization stab-ilization plan is an arrangement for controlling movement of workers from one job to another when they are considered harmful harm-ful to the war effort. In the phrase "war effort" is the key to the whole purpose and meaning mean-ing of the job control program. With the manpower problem at the critical stage, the terrific production pro-duction loss caused by excessive exces-sive turnover is a luxury we cannot can-not afford. This turnover is not something new in the World War I, it averaged an appalling 20 per cent. A recent survey in one war plant revealed an estimated esti-mated cost of $42 for each worker who left the company's payroll. Difficulty of placement, extra training time, preparation of new records., all form a heavy drag on meeting production quotas. In this war, HMC and other government govern-ment agencies have prevented any such turnover. You have heard criticism of the job control program. It has been called regimentation and a freezing freez-ing of labor. Those who make such charges are misinformed. Job control under the present setup is no more regimentation of labor or industry than the control con-trol of sabotage. Excessive turnover turn-over is just as real a threat to our war effort as blowing up a bridge or damaging a machine both must be eliminated. Labor is not frozen under the employment employ-ment stabilization plan. No worker work-er is compelled to accept or remain re-main on any specific job. Any employer is not compelled to accept ac-cept or retain any specific worker. Workers and employers under the employment stabilization plan have enlisted voluntarily as soldiers in the battle of production. produc-tion. Working together, willingly, willing-ly, shoulder to shoulder, they can make the job control program a powerful weapon for winning that battle. |