While labor clamors for greater participation in the management of industry, one company's workers are showing how this can be obtained: General Electric Co. employes (mostly C.I.O.) have this year submitted 12,250 suggestions for speeding production, saving man-hours and materials and improving quality.
For these helpful production hints G.E. so far this year has paid its smart employes $115,000 in awards. Some winners:
> Spencer Frederick, ex-carpenter, is now layout man in the welded-parts section at Schenectady. His suggestion for rearrangement of ship-motor parts cut from large steel sheets gets 25% more pieces from each sheet, saves 110,000 lb. of steel. By...
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