The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-17

a days work for a full days work
Another classification is OF wage
worker on timeWOrk whose output
may be measured. Among these, as
examples, are bakery and coEfeCtion-
cry workers, BARRIERS. bill posters.
blacksmiths, boot and shoe workers.
garnlent cutters, bottle blowers. glove
workers, hatters, much work done by
photographers and printers. especially
those in the composing Don
If soldering were as common as
Mr.. TAYLOR describes it. his thirty
years of crusading against il might
reasonably have brought five million
~Wage-earnerS under his system. He
claims fifty thousand. President
James O'Connell. International Asso-
citation of Machinists, testifying be-
fore the Congressional committee Of
In quiry on the subject. said that at
the Watertown Arsenal, where the
system had been in use for a couple
OF years. it had only reached a very
small percentage of the employees. but
ne it would be claimed that
all We're under the Taylor system;
possibly by this method of calculation
the total of fifty thousand had been
made out. MI. Taylor's book gives no
census Of his forced converts or list
or the places where they work. SO
Tar as may be judged by press ac-
counts, Mr.. Taylor's list is suffering
losses. OF his system. James j. Hill
said: 1T is all rot; it has cost the
santa Fe Railroad a million dollars
to try it, and they have abandoned
it, Mchinist delegates told the Con-
gressional committee hat it had been
given up by the American LOGON olive
Company and-most u~nkindest cut
Of al'-the Bethlehem Steel Compa-
n.y., favorite seen of the efficiency
engineers" earlier stop watch per-
formances.
Newspaper readers are becoming
familiar with strikes against the sys-
tem- The Rock Island Arsenal men
struck through the means safest to
government employees; they tackled
Congress abOut it. A division Of the
WATERFOWL employees walked out. At
the Philadelphia plant of the Key
stone Watch Case Company nearly
200 ~unorganized men struck against
the stop-watch system. The Ameri-
can Wage-earner may rain the I'M
preston hat he has been already
rushed quite to the reasonable limit
when he contemplates the usual ref
erence book table of the comparative
annual productivity of Workmen. 1t
runs:
american >-,4oo
I.foo
AUSTRALIAN sVo
frehcn ofcc
tIngllSh 900
German ioo
AS to raising ages two points
come in view: CD To what extent has
deficiency raised wages? 90 Have
it's advocates any warrant in prophe-
yin hat the Wage-Workers accept
ing it will not have their wages low
cred? Here are plain. unoehlaoie
facts which bear on both these points:
In all the stock examples of the EN-
cheney ogr the survivors Of the
original force have obtained. as al
legged. for the time being, an increase:
But the helpers, the performers OF
the preliminary motions opp
from the high-priced workman rou-
tine. the handy men who are SUD
s%titutes for mechanics quail1ed Lol
the trade. all take only the wage OF
the unskilled labor market. We hhd
in the index to Mr.. Taylors book no
reference to his admission tpage 81
of a reduction in the Wa"es OF STOP
watch lathe men the beginning OF
the recent fall in the scale or WAGES
throughout the country Here Is q
clear concession TO the lax Of com
petition nich reduces wages n an
overlooked abor market. And since
Mr.. TAYLOR does not fail to point out
that a logical result Of his system IS
the destruction of the trade union.
what power is 70 stand AGAINST re-
auctions in wages. down 70 the lowest
level at which stop-Wateh ~workn"n
rnav be hired in dull times By tat
portion OF INSCRIPTIONS and greedy
emIf1verS which exists II al
branches Of Industry
An ir4minent cause % 2 break
down in applied s~top-Watcf. high
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