The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-29

l until Congressman I. s. Pepper o- | Iowa introduced a resolution 1n tht | House which resulted in Congress ap- pointing a special committee to Inves- l tigate the Taylor plan. MT. Pepper pointed out that the Taft ad1nln1Stfa- 1 tion has begun to install the Taylor system at Watertown, Rock Island ano other government arsena1S. He stat | ed that inasmuch as the workers al | these arSenas, as well as organized labor from one end of the country IC the other were violently opposed tto the system, charging that 1t involved the most brutal speeding-up and sweat
 shop methods, Congress should make an impartial investigation before the stamp of approval of the United
 States gov vernment be placed upon it
 as an example for private manufac-
 turers to follow.
 The investigating committee = of
 which VI B. Wilson of -PennSy-yania,
 one of the ablest members of Con-
 gress, is hafTpnaE-brought to light
 First. That the .sscience''- of the
 Taylor system in it's final analysis is the relentless speeding up of work
 men by the setting of a task which
 but one out of five workrnen can ac- compliSl.
 second: That is no part Of the ':sci- ence'' to-be concerned with ar1yE-w-ork=
 man who can not keep up to the pace an operation on which he is engaged
 Third: That the Taylor system was adopted universally a great army of workmen would be thrown out of employment or reduced in rank, such as mechanics being forced, to take po- sitions as 4abeFers, because it's ob- vious that all men are not physically able to keep up day after day, and months after month, to a pace set by the fastest workers
 Fourth: That the Taylor system is calculated to destroy organization among worknaen, one of the corner stones Of TaS;leF-fogie being -t1 --pr1r=; ciple that Worknlen must be. dea1I- with individually and not in masses or through committees; that it is no con cern of one workman what happens to another; all men working under this system must be ''satisfied,' the mo- ment he becomes dissa tisfied he must quit; otherwjSe there would be dan ger of his grievance becoming conta- gious and the system" interfered with.
 That NIr. Taylor actually applies the principles set out above can best be shown by his own language in his book Of instructions to employers, which tells how he introduced his system at various plants.
 'The tasks were all made so se- vere'' explains MT. TayIor in Para of five laborerS Cperhaps even a, small Ter percentage than this) could keep
 MT. Taylor lays great stress or his system of scientific ''persUasion." Of this ''persuasive'' feature, in paragraph 293, he says:
 "A certain percen tage of the men. with the best of attention, will fail in this and find that they have no place in the general organization, while still others-and among them some of the best workers, who are, however, either stupid or stubborn can never be made to see that the new system is as good as the old: and these. too, must drop out
 For the success of the system the number of men employed on practical i y the same class of work should be large enough for the workmen quite often to have the object lesson of see ng men laid off for failing to earn high wages and others substituted in their ! places"
 There is one other statement of MT | Taylor that supplies food for thought l He says: That in all cases money l must be spent, and in many cases a | great deal of money. before the chan l ses are completed which result in low | aring cost
 The inference is that at first the | nen must be paid higher wages to | get them to set the fastest possible ] pace. but that in the end the men will ! De doing a greatly increased amount 1 If work fo~ the same pay received be Ore the installation of the system
 The Taylor system means. in q sen ence, that the quickest time at which 1 job can be completed by a first-cIass nan is to be the standard time at which. all men are to be compelled to |