The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-24

when so educated and he violates hi
instructions. he should be dismissed
from the service and a competen
man permitted to take his place. j
employers of labor would through
some competent employees organize {
board for the education of the EN-
ployees in this particular, better worl
would be accomplished and the rank!
of labor be placed on higher plane
and the frequency of accidents mini
mixed. There is a broad field of use
| fulness to be covered on this subject
and the way is open to have rules
and regulations more fully under
stood, and the laborer given to under
stand that violation of the rules will
not be tolerated and will meet with a
prompt dismissal from the service,
then an era of carefulness would be
reached and rules not disobeyed. 1t
is true and lately .chronicled in the
calendar of accidents wherein some of
our prominent railways have been
subjected to fatalities and large num-
bers of passengers injured, that if
the rules had been obeyed the acct
dents would not have happened. The
average employee hates rule. He
considers anything that trespasSeS
upon his liberty to do a thing in a
way prescribed is an insult to his in
telligence and un-American. Such
thoughts are trouble breeders. If the
ideas of all employees were weighed
together as to how and in what man.
ner work should be performed, there
would be an endless confusion, dis
asters would follow, and the accom-
plishment of the work not only be an
open violation of the rules, but would
create disloyalty to those in authority
and nothing would be attained. We
find so many times a laxity in the en-
forcement of the rules on the part of
the employer, and we find the agents
in authority standing back and saying
we have a book of rules. Yes, this
may be true, but does the employee
understand the rules, or has he been
furnished with such a book and ex-
amined it as to the contents? How
many times every day are the rules
of our manufacturing or railway
violated? What, if any
thing, is done to discipline the vio-
lator? 1t is true some cases are
called to my mind where, an en-
ployee has been dismissed from the
service, but there are SO many cases
where it is not so.
The soldiers of our army are men Of
discipline. Why? Because the COVER
ance of military rules. When this is done
are achieved and the lives ana
of our citizens perpetuated and
Equally so in the army OF
labor. Enforce obedience to the rul IS.
Never permit a waiver. or permit the do
ing of an act contrary to the rules.
obedience encourages crime Every rule
should be plain and specific not for the
purpose of working a hardship, but for
the sole purpose of doing that which
brings about the interest of the labor to
be performed as well as the fruitage
emanating therefrom, and the benefit of
employee by way of protecting him that
the least possible danger will come in the
performance of his daily task Enforce
the rules. educate all employees as to why
they are promulgated. Never permit a
without discipline, and when this |
Is done loyal employees will applaud the |
employer, and the army of employees |
will be as loyal in their work the SOL |
1ier on the field of battle No 1aborer |
should ever do his daily task in any other |
way than that prescribed by the book of |
rules. If he does he subjects himself to |
risks and brands himself as |
careless employee, but by taking that |
course wherein the obedience of rules is /
'ollowed out he will preserve in the future |
ris life limb or body. and at the Same /
lime protec his family The laws of God as
well as those of our government are t5r /
and happiness of all people IL