Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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THE GUARANTEED ANNUAL WAGE The Guaranteed Annual Wage is the most recent major accomplishment of Walter Reuther and the C I 0 5n the Auto Industry. First they won it from the Ford Motor Ooppany and then from General Motors . Since then they have been working on the smaller independents. First of all, what is the Grarant.eed Annual Wage ? This is a guarantee to every employee of the company, from the president to the floor sweeper, that he shall receive pay for fifty-two weeks' labor whether he works six months or twelve months, hoes this make sense? I don't think soj Why pay a man for six months labor that he doesn't even do? If the employee knows that he will be paid fifty-two weeks a year anyway, he isn't going to take as much interest in his work as if he had to do good work to avoid being laid off. Of course, a men likes to have: security and if he wants it badly enough he can got it by working for it. But who will try when the union guarantees employees fifty- two weeks' pay o yesr anyway? You might say, Well, why do you care? It doesn't affoct you, Maybe I'm not working under the Guaranteed Annual Wage, but when I go out to buy a car it affects me, because the prices are sky high on account of the G. A. W. The manufacturers have to raise the prices to pay el] of their employees fifth-two weeks a year. A Guaranteed Annuel Wage might be all right in the clothing industry or something along that line that functions steadily all year long, hut in the auto industry which is so seasonable that it doesn't need the same amount of employees all year long, especially at the time for a new model, it just doesn't make sense. Thomas Magnont Arrcto, Dorcas and Suzanne;.-.working' on,-economics .in-the offi Mr. Trainor conducting a class in an adjoining room: Suzanne: Mr. Tranor is going to come in here and give us the dickens in o minute. Dorcas: Why9 We aren't doing anything. Arreta and Suzanne: That's just i;: t Miss Gatos: It gives me gleet pleasure to give you this bonus of 10 ; ointf. Why not make it ?0 and really have fun? Jackie:

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is for fun we have at Franklin High, is for report cards; we sometimes sigh, is for aches and pains we go through when examination time falls due. is for notos which vie take in our classes; t s business for Lads as well as for lassies, is for our past principal, Kaszuba, (A. J.) is for laughter which makes the stud.nts gay. is for incidents quoor that do happen 'round here; is lor school nurse from whom we steer clear. is for holidays which we hope will come soon; is ior the ivories in the old main room, is for games wo alL hope to win; is for the hot lunch which fills to the chin. is for is for is for is for is for is for secretaries, who are on the beam, the cheer loaders who give pep to the team. Hank Trainor, our principal, tried and true, others of tie faculty, true blue, oranges, thi basketball teams squeeze, the librarians who say, Quiet please. Sue n' Doc '56 WOMEN'S FASHIONS First dresses were worn clear to the heels, with frills, hoops, and loads of steels, xhoir 3hoes had buttons and extended to the knee, and their hats were certainly something to see. Next wero drosses above the knees worn by flappers in the gay twenties, xho sleeves were long and the waistlino low. And they wero tied at the beck with a nice big bow. But now in the present day and age, All kinds of styles arc the latest rage. With fashions changing from year to year. We don't know what’s coming, but have no fear. Sandra Benjamin '56