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Show cases, United States dollars. Enjoying a unique employment position by law in relation to the common national worker, empleados by-and-large performed effectively and satisfactorily in lesser supervisory capacities, in the majority of the clerical and field engineering and survey positions, a few as craft specialists and construction crew general foremen, and an occasional exceptional empleado occupied a position of high responsibility. Peak employment of 523 empleados was attained in July 1958. OBRERO PERSONNEL All of what can be termed direct productive effort in the project construction and service departments was performed by the Peruvian national day-worker, the obrero. Primitive by any ordinary standards due to background and native environment, accustomed to privation, and initially completely unskilled in all but a few of the construction crafts, the obrero proved a generally able worker which, when coupled with proper expatriate training and supervision and selectivity based on willingness to learn, combined surprisingly to produce relatively competent craftsmen. There follows a summary by craft classification of estimated project obrero efficiency as compared to average American productivity: Percent Heavy Equipment Operators 75 Truck Drivers 85 Tractor Operators BO Mechanics 40 Welders 70 Carpenters 70 Plumbers 50 Riggers 30 laborers 100 Steel Workers 75 Electricians 45 |
