Radio age research, manufacturing, communications, broadcasting, television (1941)

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Thus, out of ten men honored by the President in the White House ceremonies, RCA was the only com- pany to have two representatives in the group. Although the ajiplication of the suggestion system to the war effort has given strong impetus to war production throughout the Nation, the basic idea is not new. RCA recognized its merits fifteen years ago and put it into operation. It was received with enthusiasm at each of the company plants and has been an effective means of cement- ing closer understanding between management and employees ever since. At the Camden plant, for exam- ple, its general usefulness has in- creased year by year. In 1938, a total of 2,562 suggestions was sub- mitted, and 454, or 18 per cent, were found usable. The following year suggestions increased to 10,- 298 with 16 per cent acceptances. In 1940, the number of suggestions was 11,031 with 18 per cent accept- ed. In 1941. 25,701 suggestions were received and 15 per cent ac- cepted. In November of 1941, a concerted drive was made to place emphasis on quality, rather than quantity suggestions. Nevertheless, 23,064 suggestions were turned in up to the end of October 1942. Of these, 7.582 or 32 per cent were accepted. Camden's joint Labor-Manage- ment War Production Drive Com- mittee has had an imi>ortant influ- ence on the improved results from the Suggestion System. They have appointed a sub-committee with an equal number of management and labor representatives. This com- mittee has made many valuable sug- gestions for encouraging sugges- tions from workers, for making suggestion boxes and suggestion blanks more attractive and, above all, for improving the speed and efficiency with which suggestions are routed through the organization for decisions. The RCA Suggestion System has five basic objectives: to stimulate thinking among employees; to ob- tain employee ideas that will lead toward better production and low- ered costs; to create better under- standing and improve relations be- (coiitinited on page Jo) PRESIDENT ROOSKVKLT 8HAKKS HANDS WITH STANLEY CliAWFUKD UF UCA, WHO WAS ONE OF TEN TO RECEIVE PRESIDENTIAL RECOGNITION FOR WAR PRODUCTION MERIT. IN THE BACKGROUND ARE FJJWIN C. TRACY OF RCA (LEFT) AND DONALD NELSON, HEAD OF WAR PRODUCTION BOARD. 2 HONORED BY PRESIDENT Eiiwin Jracii ami Stanley Crawford. RCA Men. Anionc? Ten From Notion Receiving Special WPB Aioards in Ceremony at White House. TWO RCA Victor Division war workers whose outstanding suggestions are materially further- ing the war effort received recog- nition usually accorded military heroes at a series of ceremonies in Washington, climaxed by the presentation to them of awards by President Roosevelt at the White House on December 10th. The awards, the first to be made by the President to industry's "heroes", were under the auspices of the War Production Board and were conferred on the RCA em- ployes on recommendation of the plant's joint management-labor War Production Drive Committee to Beat the Promise. Stanley Crawford and Edwin Tracy were the two men whose home front contributions to the war effort received Presidential recog- nition. Crawford, previously award- ed the War Production Board's Cer- tificate of Individual Production Merit, is a materials inspector in the Camden plant and lives at Wood- lynne, N. J. Tracy is an installa- tion and service engineer whose home is at Rockville Center, L. I. Crawford's contribution was a simple caliper which salvages thir- teen out of sixteen castings for- merly rejected, thus saving valu- able semi-finished material. It is now being used in war plants throughout the country, avoiding enormous metal waste previously re- garded as unavoidable. The contribution by Tracy is a highly technical electrical appara- tus to test radio equipment destined for fighting planes. It accomplishes in three minutes, with higher ac- curacy, a job that formerly required eight hours. (contmued on page 31) RADIO AGE 21