The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-09-16
THE REASON.

CTS of both sexes has been devoting considerable attention to efficiency and was really troubled by the fact that fatigue got the better of their employees after a certain number of hours. The experts hit upon novel plan to abolish this fatigue which they had come to the conclu- sion was more a nervous matter than anything else. They had in stalled in the work room cabinet phonografs which played the latest records, and the result was satisfac- factory beyond words.
 The work was pleasanter to the employees and although they ex- pended the same amount of energy, they felt far less fatiguing conse- quences.
 Without stopping to question the permanence of improvement follow ed this innovation, it may be point ed out that the employers in this instance encountered the very great est difficulty with which the hired workers themselves have to contend against This is the fact that more often than not their daily tasks are pure and simple drudgery. While to the professional man or to the ar list, painter, sculptor or novelist, the labor which they have to perform to make a living is a delight, for the majority of the workers 1t is source of endless distaste and their labor is the dreariest toll imagin- able.
 The wise ones have suggested that this is because the workers have not chosen that particular calling which was best suited to their peculiar in clinations, and that for any man or woman to make a success in lie and to enjoy their work, the indi- yidual idiosyncracies as such must be studied, and the individual ad iusted to the work for which he is best suited. Because results have proved satisfactory in some instan- ces, many so called experts are now endeavoring to make a remuneratlve profession out of the work or ad- justing employees to the jobs which are best adapted to them.
 Now it is quite obvious tha. any such effort will be impossible and for this reason. Most Of the work CTS of the world have at an" rate to take what they can get to make a living, and their concern is more with getting job whereon they can live, than one which will be suited to them. For there IS no choice open to the average worker; and to make the life worth living It is the average worker who really needs to be suited.
 On the other hand, one fact that has escaped all these experts is this, that what pals upon the majority of workers is the fact that they are not, to use their own colloquialism, <'thcir own boss. The man who shoyels in on his own ground into his own boxes a poor enough pay streak, so that it earns for hlm scanty living, will manifest great CT interest in his work than II ne is earning twice as much working for another man, and with the boss looking down his collar as he lifts every shovelful. That is what drags The interest of the craftsman in his work is not because ,Ae craftsman is tracing out some beautiful and artistic design, and there is what the philosophers call the qualification of the creative instinct. That is not the reason. That is bunk and gun, pure and simple It is because the craftsman is working out his own ideas himself, and unclaimed as to mind and hand by the ideas or con trol of another person.
 The life of the surgeon or the ar tist or the poet who makes living that way, filling the wants of his body and soul by his labor whatever their nature, is not drudgery be- cause he is working for himself. For the man who is his own boss. there is no question but every act is very far from drudgery. It is the en- slavement of being hired that is