Workers Help Management

What did Don Nelson think he was doing? Did he mean to turn industry over to labor? Or vice versa? Management and labor both snorted these angry questions three months ago when Don Nelson asked them to form joint labor and management committees to speed production. Last week the answers were in.

With pardonable pride, WPB announced that more than 800 plants with some 2,000,000 workers had formed labor-management production committees (including 51 in Du Pont, 50 in U.S. Steel, 25 in Westinghouse) to build morale and to collect ideas for increasing production....

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