The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-25

and ability, its aim being to produce
What 1t calls q system of shoe manu-
featuring. To accomplish this it pro-
posed to tie together, as it puts it.
the machines It controls in such a way
as to give a practical continuity of seq
vice. That is, each machine was to be
so adjusted to ZACH other that the
shoe could be passed from one to an
other without loss of time or waste OF
effort. To do this effectually meant
improving the old machines as we'll as
adding new ones. The results of the
combination OF machines and of the
Improvement ere nothing less than eN-
t~raOrdinary. It is a practically con-
tlnuOuS service enabling the manufac-
turer to increase his product and the
%laborer, who in the shoe industry is
pad by the piece, to increase his earn
ings.
The management of the new organ
ization proposed at the start not to
raise the royalties paid at the time
the combination was formed for the
use OF the various machine and it
has never done so. 1t proposed also
to take off what had been a custom
in the buSineSS-the initial charges for
installing machines. Indeed, the COM
pany claims that While before the COM
bination the initial charge for fitting
out a factory was ST., 600, it now is
but 81, 700. In the case Of many of
the metallic machines, as they are
called, the practice was to charge nc
rent but to require the manufactures
TO take from the companies certain
findings like tacks, wire nails. and eye
lets; the company charged its own
price, not the current one. and in this
way got its pay. These prices prob
ably were always high, but the COM
Dany claims it has never raised them.
That is. the new organization pro
posed to make no changes in what
the manufacture had been paying, but
to increase its profits through the
greater continuity and perfection of
the service of it's system.
But this Of course meant that the
manufactures should use al. the ma
chimes in its system; that is, all those
that it had tied together. And to make
sure that he did this, the p pre-
pared a re~markao ole lease requiring
that all the machines it made pertain
ing to the bottoming of shoes btgin-
ming with the lasting Of the uppers
should be KEEP toSether; that is, that
no outside machines for any of these
processes could be used, and if an at
tempt was made to introduce one. the
had the right to take out
the remaining machines of the sys-
tenn.
In addition to the regular bottom
ing and lasting machinery the com
pany handled a large number OF gen
eral machines, and it was specifically
provided IN the leases of each Of these
that it should not be used on shoes
hat had been lasted and Welt-sti1Ched,
" turn-stitched on other machines
han those put out by the
(ThiS clause reads as follows in the
lease of the machine known as the
edge-trimmer. Four.-The leased ma
chinery shall not nor shall any part
thereof be used in the manufacture OF
any boots. shoes, or other footwear
which have been or shall be Welted or
the soles stitched by the aid of any
welt sewing OF sole stitching machine
cry not held by the lessee under lease
from the lessor or it's ~asSignOrS, or in
the manufacture of any turn boots,
shoes or other footwear. the sOles of
which have been or shall be attached
to their uppers by the aid of any turn
sewing machinery not held by the les
see under lease from the lessor or its
assiSnOrs, or in the manufacture of
any boots, shoes, or other footwear
which have been or shall be lasted. /
peggod. slugged, heel seat nailed, or
otherwise partly made by the aid Of
any lasting or pegging or 'Metallic'
machinery or mechanisms not held by
the lessee under lease from the lessor
II it's ~assignors) The penalty for
Using the leased machine with out
side machines was the forfeiture of all
leases in all OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the
made the lessees liable to an
action for damages.
The New England Shoe and Leath-
err Association considered certain fea-
lures of the leases for the metallic
fastening machines so objectionable
that a long series of conferences was
held in 1901 with the . II
notifications We're obtained.
rVl,,,, on ol+or,a+irn u-oC SncJrn6 for
the irOnclad lease covering the me-
tallic fasteners by which the shoe
manufacturers could use them with
foreign machines by paying ten per
cent. more for his materials. (The
of these machines, it will be re-