Mr. Jenner. Mr. Stovall, your able employee, Mr. Graef, has given me a good deal of detail and has been very helpful and likewise you have been. Is there anything that I have failed to bring out here because I don't know about it or haven't been stimulated to do so that you think might be helpful to the Commission in its investigation?
Mr. Stovall. I don't believe so. There was such a short period of time this fellow worked for us and he was a constant source of irritation because of his lack of productive ability, that——
Mr. Jenner. Would you elaborate on that, please?
Mr. Stovall. We would ask him to reduce a line to 4 inches in width, that happened to be 6, and he might make it 4¼ or 3-7/8, and this was a loss in labor and materials both, and it had to be redone.
Mr. Jenner. Did this occur with greater frequency than you thought—than your people thought was permissible, having in mind the progress which you would expect of him or a man in his position to have attained?
Mr. Stovall. Yes; that's true.
Mr. Jenner. What about his relations with others in the company—other employees—how did he get along, or did that come to your attention?
Mr. Stovall. I don't think anyone liked him or disliked him either one. He was just one of those people you don't know. If you don't know a guy, you can't know if you don't like him. That's probably the main reason we don't like him. Someone made mention in one instance that he bumped them in a dark room, which is a walkway area, and if a guy's bent over a tray and somebody else is coming by—he will get bumped, and it depends on who is doing the bumping, whether you get upset about it or not.
Mr. Jenner. Well, it can be done without taking offense to one another?
Mr. Stovall. There's nothing at all wrong in it. There's no pain at all in saying "Excuse me."