Omaha daily bee., 1912-01-07
LOUIS d. BRANDEGS.

lists, with the eye of a skeptic, or the
eye OF a Missourian who wants to be
shown! That is what he does. That is
what Taylor did. That was the method
which Taylor pursued. one of the first
things he did everyone doubtless at this
time Is familiar with. lie found out how
TO do the simple operation of loading pig
iron from the yard into a railroad car.
He increased the performance of the in
dividual man from twelve and a half
tons up to about forty-sevcn tons. Did
he do it by speeding up? Not at all! He
did it by precisely the same methods as
are pursued in the careful training of a
man to do any work. lie found out how
to do it. He found out the laws that
govern 1t. He gave careful thought to the
individual He said that this man who
picks up the pig iron and carries it into
that car, if he doesn't know how to do
1t best, will be just like the man on the
college crew who wears himself out when
he gets into the boat There is some
! speed which is the best speed for that
man to go. SO fast, and no faster There
! Is a certain period that man ought to
rest i'm order that he can work the full
eight hours or nine hours in the day.
There is a certain angle which is the best
angle for that man to walk up the in
clined plane from the yard into the car.
| By studying those things he finds out
there are laws, there is a science, in much
that has heretofore been regarded as
unslSilhed and unscientific. The great aim
| of scientific management is to establish
| that there is to be nothing unskilled-
nothing that is not to be worked out as
scientists are working out for us day
after day the problems in other depart
r.Rnts of lunar. activity. ~.t-. -....
All Are Together.
IF Mr.. Duncan and his friends would
come to understand what scientific man
Ggement means, they would see how i'm
rcTtant it is to the working man. and to
US, because we and they are all together.
Mr. Pagan talked as if the railroads We're
opposed to this idea of efficiency, Mr.
WIZARDS letter shows you that is not the
fact What say you to this as 2 PROPOSE
| sion? "TCi tliu"r -. cheap and m
an women and c ildren more valuable.
! Let th,I, ~ mos -uauua.ve Tor the
many. In this principle of efficiency Is
bound up the welfare Of our race" That,
gentlemen, is a quotation. Those words
were spoken. within a fortnight in this
city by Frank Trumbull, chairman of the
board Of directors of the Chesapeake &
Ohio railroad, three weeks after the de-
cison of the Interstate Commerce com
mission denying the advances in freight
rates which the railroads of the country
had sought. Isn't that a platform on
which every man and woman here can
stand? Isn't that the only platform upon
which we should stand? Isn't waste sin
full, however it may come?
Must Eliminate Waste.
I'VE cannot satisfy the demands of
American democracy until We have elm
mated large part Of the waste which
now exists The talk this evening has
been as If that waste lay wholly in what
is here spoken of as efficiency or inef-
ficiency of labor That tells a very small
part OF the story. There is a very large
part OF this possible saving that organ
led labor or any tenet of organized la
Dor cannot possibly be opposed to. Take
this illustration from the railroad world.
Last year, less than year ago, the sup
erintendent of motive power OF the Erie
railroad, Mr.. Hayes, pointed out at a
meeting of his associates what might be
done in the saving of fuel. lie showed
the tests which he had made upon his
own railroad in the operation of a par
ticular engine, and on a particular divi-
sion, by the same fireman and engineer
in two successive hours. In the first
hour that fireman and engineer We're OPP
Grating that engine without any special
care as to the consumption of fuel In
the second hour a trained man got upon
that engine with them and saw to it that
they operated the engine. and stocked the
fire as il should be stocked. The result
vas, as MIR. Hayes pointed out, that al
, though the work actually done I'm tho
, second hour was greater than in the
, FIRST hour. the consumption of coal was
only one-third OF what IL was in the firsl
hour. All that extraordinary saving re,
suited from knowledge and care.
Not the OLD way.
"Does Mr.. Duncan or does any man be
uove that it is better to go on IN the old
way allowing the men TO waste that fue
! Instead Of seeing TO IL that the men who
fire that engine and who run 10 should
. have some regard for the laws Of com
4 bustlon, and the laws OF economy? Fue
' I'm this country costs the railroads 500
q CO0C-O per year Probably from one-fourtl
s TO one-half Of that fuel could be saved
1 simply by securing from the mau-iu IN,
a first place giving the men knowledge
and IN the next place inducing then
through some proper lncentlve-to save
S instead Of to waste that fuel. In one Of my
I arguments / referred 10 Mr.. Hayes ties
I timony IN regard 10 what he found 10 b,
I possible That was an argument bcfor,
70 the Interstate Commerce commission.
!. | few DAYS afterwarl l received q Letter
e from "a man who hao formerly been
e fireman. aud who had formerly been an
10 engineer, who told this story. lie said
4 When / went onto an engine as fire
: man, was weak boy, but / ncedeS