Henry S. Green, president of the Double Seal Ring Company

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Identifier

20031569

Description

Henry S. Green, president of the Double Seal Ring Company. A man is standing in an office in front of a desk with a bentwood armchair and a window covered with a broken Venetian blind. He is wearing a pin-striped suit with a light shire and a dark diagonally-striped tie and a plaid handkerchief in his breast pocket. The folder he is holding has employee record cards devised to display absentee rates. Clipping:"Plant Manager Checks Absenteeism to Workers. Employes Set Up Committee to Report on Who and Why at Vacant War Posts. Workers themselves are the only ones who can whip absenteeism, and that's exactly what Henry S. Green, president of the Double Seal Ring Company, 2065 Montgomery, is asking them to do in his plant.'We think we're on the right track,' Green explained Tuesday, 'and if your plan works out, I'm willing to recommend it to other plants in Fort Worth doing war jobs.'The plan is simple. Green asked the workers in his plant to set up their own committee to report on absenteeism. When a worker is absent, the committee reports to the man's foreman or supervisor. 'Management certainly can't solve the absentee problem alone,' reasons Green. 'We know we've got to have the co-operation of workers, or we can't get the war production job done. And we can't arrange production unless we can follow a certain schedule of work with every man at his post. It's simply the familiar idea of the football team or the baseball team acting in unison at the proper signals.'A personnel clerk at a desk beside Green keeps the leather-backed 'graphic absentee file,' in which each worker has an attendance card and a small red 'thermometer' sort of slide. When the cards drop into place, these individual red slides fall into the pattern of an attendance graph for the entire plant each day, reflecting the cumulative attendance 'score' of each worker.' We started this plan a week ago, Green explained, 'and attendance records were brought up to date since Oct. 1.'The problem has three angles, as Green analyzes it: 1. Who is absent? 2. Why is he absent? 3. How can future absences of that man be prevented? 'If your management is at fault and something it has done or hasn't done is to blame, we want to know what that is,' Green emphasized. 'We'll make every effort to correct it. For instance, we found where we had a father and son living in the same house working on different shifts. That was changed, to give them the same hours and simplify their transportation. Perhaps a man shows up for work at 7 a.m. when it would be better to have him report at 8. The workers themselves can report such things and recommend a solution to management. The only way we can get the job done is by working together.' –Star-Telegram Photo."Stamped: Star-Telegram. Morn. Nov. 17, 1943.

Archival Date

1943-11-16

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-296

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Employee-employer relations; Employees; Office eqipment & supplies; Managers; Management; Suits (Clothing); Neckties