The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-01
TIE BUREAU
 OF EFFIC ENcY


 Recently travellers on the New Ia fen railroad foppd ln &heF seats in trains little leaflets csntioning them against taking Certain risksg such, for. example. as passing from tne car to switches at "a terminal, of4eni plat form gates themselves or alighting be- fore a train has come to a full stop. These little leaflets were signed The Bureau of Esfnciencys
 Bureau of Efffclency is rather new ztalife1 in. railroad work Perhaps a good many upon reading these leaflets fslt some curiosity concerning it, won iSersng whether it was a part ef S-ss railroad or some outside agency and just what it had to do with the operr 4eion of trains anyway ~
 Though the public may be cogni- xant of the existence of the Bureau of Efficiency only in such occasional admonitions as were contained in these leaflets 1t is really 8 big part of the railroad, embracing in it's work inEs virtually every one of the 30.00O eHnp1oyes constituting the New Ha- vens cooperating department; It rep resents what is considered by the New Haven management the best type of organization yet evolved for bringing about the full and free cooperation of all enployes-the CO., ordination of
 
 road service which will insure the smooth working of the machine, the dsteetfon of defects in the road and ip it's operatfon-these objects 1t seeks to accomplish and all with a view of pro-t noting safety and increasing efficiency.
 A railroad is a really wonderful orr Rmnixation with all it's different forms of labor and with its units of service, man and machine. scattered over a very wide area There is the man who runs the train and the man in the power house, the man who naends the track and the man who works the signals. the man in the shop and the 11sar In the ofz7ce. The work of each mnd every one of these must be coz 6<1fnated if efficiency and safety are, to be secured in the operation of the great machine as a whole, and in this lies the value of such an orgallization *s the Bureau of Efficiency. repFeserit- Ing zla grades of workers.
 This bureau, in it's form and outline, does not diner essentially from the Safety First 0rganizahon. adopted moW on many roads and in force on the New Haven since last December. The Safety First Organization, howev- ar was designed merely to cover mat 2ers affectins the safety of employees Mnn the public. The new orga nization extends the scope of this by incIud- Ai1n aI matters connected with the op- &rakfon of trains stations nlaEnten- ance of equipment, signals or track. affeeting in any way the efficiency of the service as well as it's safety. Mat ters of discipline are not touched upon.
 "A feature of this organization. as of the safety First Organization, Is the fnferloeking coln1nittee system. At the non there is the Central Committee, composed of General Manager Bardo and his staff Then there are Divis- fps Comnitteess Terminal Comrnit- tees and show ComTnittees On these committees there are representatives uf ali classes of employes. For ex- ample, on a Division Committee a conductor. fireman and an en gineer M e5t as fellow members with the Divis- ion Superintendent. the Division En- E<1eer and tae Chief Train Despatcher. They discuss monthly every detail of the operation Of the division and every employe is invited to bring in ssug- &esffons as to how the service may be made better and defects corrected The minutes Of such a meeting go to the chairman and the members of the Central Commitfee and to the mem bsrs of all the other division commit tees so that every one is kept in touch with what is going on all over the rail road system livery six months railroad ennp1oye serving as a member Of one of these committes must give way to another emp1oye Of the same rlaea Every ernpIoye thus sl1timate- lv may become a member.
 The Bureau Of Efficiency is nothing nanre in efTect than scheme for weld ing together the railroad organiza- tzcn. scattered. as it peEforce must be in the interest Of greater safety for the public and q better ser vice. It seeks to secure the co-ope1a ation Of svexy nnan engaged in the operation of the road no matter what his job, in ntta1n1ng thess objects.