Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-23
ARE AGAINST RAISE
Furniture Men Oppose General
Freight Rate Advance.
TESTIMONY IS CORRECTED
Views Given by Others at Hearing
Are Repudiated.
CONTRACTOR TAKES STAND
Others Describe Scientific Manage
ment-To Combat Vice President
Thayer's Contentious.

The interstate commerce commission to-
day entered upon the third day Of the
presentation of testimony by shippers
against the proposed increase Of f.eighl
rates on the eastern trunk lines.
At the outset today Attorney Brandeis
for the Atlantic seaboard shippers, reao
a telegram from John Linton, secre AIRY
Of the National Manufacturing AssLcia-
ton, dated at Grand Rapids. Mich. Mr.
Linton telegraphed because Of the news
paper reports Of the testimony yesterday
'by parties claiming to rep. essen. the
position Of the furniture manufa ~tu- ers
Of Grand Rapids what the action Of the
National Association Of Furniture Aianu-
facturers Of America at its annual meet
Ing last May. confirmed at its recent
meeting at st. Louis. November 16 last
really was. The action he quoted az
follows:
1--WE, the furniture manufacturers OF
America, are unaiterably opposed to any
general advance in present freight rates
as contemplated by the railroaus, bei1ev-
ing any such advance unnecessary and
wholly inequ,table and without Justtf1ca-
ton. Practically all Grand Rapids fac
tories approve"
Result Of Testimony.
This message was an outgrowth Of tes-
timony yesterday, when two witnesses
from Grand Rapids declared that while
they objected to the pending increases
in the official classification territory. they
would have no complaint to make against
a uniform advance throughout the coun-
try whereby the increases would apply
to all.
Scientific management was the solution
OF the industrial warfare between laDof
and capital winch rank b. iipraith, q
New York builder and contractor, tine
first witness, advocated. lie referred to
the way in wnlcn frederick W. Taylor
Of Germantown, Pa, mad revolut1Onlzeo
the bricklaying business by eliminating
principles, he said, were applicable to any
form OF hand LABOR. He declared that me
scentinc management, wnfcn was not, III
any sense, a siave-driving scheme, often
meant that the Individual worker could
do eight or nine times as much work
as easily and as effectively as under
the old way.
Bricklaying Easily Learned.
Mr.. GiIbraith held his audience inter-
ested while he showed the ways in which
a. bricklayer was taught to minimize the
motions of his body. He said that man
in four weeks could become proficient
in scientific bricklaying.
''Non-producer' was misnomer, ne
said; the term should be "non-perspirer.
John II. Williams, manager of the Man.
haitian Press, New York, at whose plant
the scientific management plan is used.
said he had found no union labor ObJec-
tons to it. His company, he said, paid q
bonus for extra work Wednesdays fol-
lowing paydays
were Harry p. Kendall of Boston. Mass.
and Robert T. Kent of New York, the
former manager Of a printing concern,
the latter an editor and publisher.
Testimony is to be introduced. according
to Attorney Walter l.. Fisher, represent
ing the National Wholesale Dry Goods
IA so..a.ion a..0 the western Association
Of Shoe Wholesalers, to combat the con-
tenIlOnS o. VICE r. esluent mayer or the
Pennsylvania railroad that the increases
In rates are really an adjustment Of class
rates as between themselves and as be-
tween the commodities and class rates.
the. lass commuu ~ iates nav.ns Leen IN
e,o the class rates not
having been Increased.
Ieii or ,~..nrlfic System.
President Henry NJ. Towne. a manu-
facturer and head of the Merchants AS
ISOLATION Of New York, commended at the
session yesterday afternoon that the rail-
roads should nrst pu. their own mouse
in order, as he expressed 1t; tLat Iney
should install modern methods OF Dusi-
ness. which were just as feasible with
them as with other industries, and Tat
II scientific management could not pro-
duce economies to meet the revenue
needs then he would join with them in
their demand for rate increases. He de-
picted in glowing terms the dig business
strides under scientific management.
Henry Van Ripper Scheel, en.a,,ed in
the manufac. ure Of cotton in Passaic. N.
j., also testified enthusiastically con-
corning the workings Of that system an
told Of the bonus scheme at his plant
whereby the weavers. with q minimu. n
bonus alone, misht attain weekly total
wage Of $14.?0.
The commission is anxious to expedite
the testimony. Commissioner Prouty ad-
vised counsel yesterday that the shippers
had made out their case as far as he
WORKINGS Of the scientific system in the
plants described were concerned and that
Il was perfectly evident that q sys en-
that worked out 30 well in one plant
misht be worked out similarly in other
plants.
Tom Kane Is critically hurt at Inman,
Va. as the result Of being shot twice by
John Kflbourne Saturday night II 4