(Testimony of Roy Sansom Truly)
Mr. Truly.
That is right, Most of them use a clipboard. They may have several orders at a time on the clipboard. That saves them going back to the table continually for one order. These orders amount from anything to $3 or $4 to $300 or $400, on up.
But usually if a boy is filling Scott, Foresman's orders, for instance, and he sees half a dozen over there, he will pick up maybe that many.
But during our busy season, when we have stacks and stacks of orders on the table, they don't try to put them all on a clipboard, they take a few at a time when they go to the sixth floor after stock, they try to be certain what they need for several orders at one trip.
Mr. Belin.
Who else worked on Scott, Foresman other than Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mr. Truly.
Well, I assume that all of our boys, all of our order fillers have worked at some time or other, because when the boys finish up the stocks they are working, the orders they are filling, if there is anything left, regardless of publisher, they go fill it.
But Scott, Foresman was one of our publishers that I would say would be easiest for a new man to learn how to fill.
And we have a lot of those orders.
You can give a new man those orders, once he understands a little about the alphabetical arrangement, the location of the stock, and he can go ahead and fill orders, and you won't have to keep showing him things. They are easier to fill.
Usually the boys that fill a lot of the other orders are the boys that have had more experience overall, they have been there some time, and they will know the general location of all the stock, and it is just easier for an experienced man to fill some other orders.
Mr. Belin.
When they fill the orders, they go and get the books, and bring them down to your wrapping and mailing section?
Mr. Truly.
That is right. And they are checked to see that they are in correct quantities and titles and called for on the order, or the invoice.
Then they are weighed up on parcel post scales, if they go by parcel post, or they are processed over on the floor if they are big enough for freight.
Mr. Belin.
And, as I understand it, they would first look to see if the title would be on the first floor in your bins, and then only if it wasn't on the first floor would they go up to some of the upper floors with your reserve stock, is that correct?
Mr. Truly.
That is right.
Mr. Belin.
Anything else you can think of with regard to the particular nature of the type of work that Lee Harvey Oswald did when he was working for your company?
Mr. Truly.
Nothing except that we have occasionally--we would check the number of orders that each boy filled per day, to see if he is doing a day's work. And each invoice which is the billing of the order, has a little section for a checker's number. And the order filler's number. Our checker periodically would count at the end of the day the number of orders that each order filler filled that day.
We could tell at that time whether some of them were doing much more work than others.
And we also kept a list of mistakes that he catches a boy making, such as filling the wrong quantity of books, or the wrong title. We didn't do that every day, because it is a top heavy thing, and if we have to keep a check on your boys all the time, it is not worthwhile.
Mr. Belin.
What did you find generally--would you classify Lee Harvey Oswald as an average employee--above average, or below average employee?
Mr. Truly.
I would say for the nature of the work and the time he was there, the work that he did was a bit above average. I wasn't on that floor constantly. The boy, from all reports to me, and what I have seen kept working and talked little to anybody else. He just kept moving. And he did a good day's work.
Mr. Belin.
What was his pay?
Mr. Truly.
$1.25 an hour.
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