The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-10-02

81 Norklngman. Nv hen writing OF GER
tain shop says: s5ls ~.
rs Funny thing about the men on this
[ Job They are quite; ready to criticize
,, the Rich because 81, 4 their t'uppish,
ness hut I've noticed that a lunch
| time the. laborers get off into q corner
by themselves, because the A Journey
men efusessst to yea ts their Is andWiche
and drink their beer with them: The
draug htsmem consi der. themselves gu
perior to the pattern ma kers, the pat
tern makes believe that they are "a
step higher in the social scale than
the nnachinists, 4 the. machinists ina
CINE that they cam look down upon
the mould ers, and $50 = tt goes. 3s There
society among the two thousand men
in the shop reminds II me Of 81 the
Women's clubs back in Peterburg.
You will remember that none OF the
wives of a the firen1en may become
members Of the club composed ex-
clusively Of the wives Of the engs .
neers; and as for the brakemen they
aren't In 1t. And their husbands all
belong to- the 5$"Brotherhood.. 81 Talk
about the artist ia We've got a
good dose of$it here, and most Of us
are wearing the overalls. % " :, n q .5s
55.: Ruless and Regulations.
= never heard Of so many rules
and regulations as they have in this
plant, i had been accustomed to do
Ing pretty much as pleased, Old
man Jenkinss. used to tell us that he
thought If we !. were worth having
=
by him. and furthermo re. i he didn't
propose to run a Kindergarten for
full grow nsmen--he was conducting a
machine shop, with well-natured
"greasers. Some Of the rules are all
right, ofsepuTye.ss. I realize that-in
shop as big1as this there are always
some fellows who: simply cannot see
the importanees Of. havingJa we'll I'M
derstood system. But there has evil
IDENTIFY been 8 waste OF good card
board, printers ink and picture frame
moulding, IN this case, for 4 don't be-
lieve that one man in twenty has
ever read the instructions. If the
bosses had been, wise. about the s,use
Of this material they might have
printed some tables i showing The
oSASAA6 80 ~ I5AAO4os1AtE C11d1uS sHduut OINGT
material, the hest: chapes for achine
cutting toolsa the rules tor complitin ing
the areas and sthe :circumfe sof
circles, the WEIGHTS OF vari ous kinds
and -sha pess 1fSiilTa1n, the rules sc wheel
sgearings and other rules having Ito
do The &aheral subj ect sof
chineS seems TO Il me that these
mil hti4Aae fhel bad The men, and they
need not have lost their self respect,
as as might be the case with the rules
which are contained in their 1sx3o
inch guide-boards. ~ S5. 5ss Fl. %..i
+ 4. 5 & MA Good Super" +. ! z>=z
3. We've.got a gpdo "super.'' He's new
on the Job, but / believe that is
going to make things go. He is "a
young fellow over s5, but. while
he is a .tech'' graduate, he had plenty
OF practical shop experience before he
began to handle men. He has passed
down the line with the boys, and
hasn't any fancy ideas about things.
& He knows q good job when he sees
II, and, somehow, he usually speaks OF
: it, \ t makes a fellow feel. like try:
Ing It again after q word Of appre-
citation FROM him. His assistant is e.
peach He. graduated from the
office. Never handled a tool in his
life. They say that he was promoted
because he persuaded the old man
+, that: he, could Introduce into the shop
q more scientific system Perhaps the