Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-05
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After Midvale. AZ. Taylor installed
his systsm a. the plant % tce Beth
iehsm steel company.
Thanks 20 an Investigation % the
T Bethlehem Steel company strike IN
Z 1910. Information ls available a. 20
{ conditions % labor Ia that concern q
p,arts The Inquiry vas made hy The
United States bureau o. labor Ia 1910.
under tds direction % EtheiheTt stew
art. a special agent % the labor hr-
reau ~ the tine. who bore the repu'a-
zion % hsinE one % the most expert
eaced sconomic Investigators iu the
countTV.
when this strike began there were
10 labor organizations Co the plant.
. ths company would NOT permit them.
I Ths government Investigation re-
vca.ed this.
That ont % every 100 men 81 were
WORKING seven days every week
That out % every 100 men f1. In
Sundays IN the month
That out o. every 100 men g. were
working ~ hours a day.
That out % every 100 men g. were
working ~ hours q day seven days =
week
Tha, out 81 every 100 men e. were
earning less than g. a day.
These are tho grim features which
che United States bureau % labor
gives us of the working shifts of the
Bethlehem steel company az drawn
from Jfe Company oVn time books.
We have looked in upon the work
mFu at che plants uf two OF the three
frmf composing fte var trust Let
ls nos step into ttr shop 90 tEe tl.ri
var tracking concern. thar nf the
Carnegie steel COMPANY. We can Co
ffat very easily hy reading Edwin
HH1rrmar's resume 90 conditions re-
rre .sF .r fr- sHer foundation .uFes-
ffefrrn ~ fIr .u-usE.e company and
far rared States steel corporation
.trr CeruFs.o company Us owned by
f.a latter concern Here ts W1lr the
.HerTrret.rn revealed
T.. urfu fl.rE asked Hf the work
r- speed or maybe. one ogsEt 90
ea. .HrrI without waste To tho
achievement rf fa.r result everything
s adapted. bur above alI. Che wage
schedule The underlying .ira Ct the
eaa.r rgfsrm Is ta Ert more one COZ
urr tr rrVils him fea I.H fonda.
mental rule 90 chat Or tle man drives
tE- machine he is paid br che r.cee.
~ fsr machine drives him he ts paid
f1r time 4 trick constantly prac- .
tr-I is 20 urge tho workers into CN-.
erriIaz Hr.r previous capacity FOR
che purpose Gf earning more and then .
r1 adopt the vase rate GO tIe uCH rec-|
o-I .H order that they may work sim .
harder fr retain tlci~ old earnings. .
TfIs has proved one OF tha most ehec- .
..re means ~ Increasing t-e output
rtmrne 1900 men employed iu the .
,hrse largest plants OF thc United
s'aFrr steel corporation iu 1909 there
Ftrr 100 mon u1TE.-- Cuiy eight
sa.-r daF Nm1ur tEc steel
1rd IRON workers Che I1tCB- duv is I.
law r1V. 600 that. Cor in-
stance. there we're only 91 TH-huur men
.1 1917 f-.hoEr men at tic HCuCstsad
steel works iu 1907
rt au slightly uOd.aCt-aud
modified largely Cog fte Hu-ss-hpits
good seven daEs 1I faa week all the
scar through NeIfrr sundays nor
holidays rsIsf fa- these raIers once
EVERY f.-fu.sEt they v1-s 80 hours loo
. stretch .u order -saf rlrv mas have
. mi tag OF 80 hours cree The next
srCE.F
o. may be- imagined from the fore
coins shat a fine humanitarian atmos-|
1hers must abound 90 the Midvaie
bethlehem and Cr-Ec-e plants. where
fr TAYLOR -yFfam was born And The
Taylor system o. Just as humanitarian
.E fhe atmosphere CO. the shops from
EEirh .t surlnE
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