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The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-08
STOP WATCH SYSTEM
REJECTED BY HOUSE

Washington-After spirited debate
last week, the house, on roll call
vote, accepted Congressman Tavenner's
bill which prohibits any money in this
budget being used for stop watch"
speeding up or premium systems. The
vote was 1877 to III.
Friends of the amendment insisted
that the proposal is not intended to pre-
vent extra compensation for superior
service, and that only bonus and pre-
MUM systems are attacked.
Congressman Van Dyke called atten-
ton to the order of May 25, 1915, signed
by J. p. Johnston, general superintend-
ent of the railway mail service, in which
speed tests were discontinued as a part
of "our efficiency rating system"
Despite these statements, petitions of
both skilled and unskilled workers
against the system, and the published
records of hearings held on this ques-
ton, several congressman made strong
objection.
In the opinion of these patriots, the
Tavenner amendment was fraught with
evil possibilities. Congressman Madden
of Illinois said the amendment would
place all men on level, and in an elo-
uuCllt OttDtil 81 nS dCSldl GU lildl WOl kCl >
would be sent back "to the Paleozoic
age, where everybody was savage,
where civilization was unknown, and
where progress was never thought of. u
Congressman Moore was also alarm
ed at industrial prospects if the amend
ment passed The Pennsylvania law
maker believed it would "reduce work
men to = common level and prevent any
one from rising above that level in COM
pensation."
Congressman Tavenner, Nolan and
Keating insisted that the amendment
was no barrier to efficiency methods and
was only intended to check stop
watch" practices. The two first named
representatives read petitions from skill
ed and unskiled employees of the Water
town arsenal to prove their point, and
Congressman Keating declared that
those who oppose the amendment want
to use the stop watch on other men
and those that are supporting the
amendment had the stop watch used
on them"
Later the house placed the stop
watch" amendment in the army appro-
priation bill.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-08

trial relations. This investigation was
conducted by Prof. Robert f. Hoxie
OF the University OF Chicago, with the
advice and assistance OF Mr. John p.
Frey editor OF the Molders' Journal
and Mr.. Robert G.. Valentine, repre-
senting the employers interests. The
report, which was signed by all OF these
Investigators, points out the following
defects that were observed:
(a) Failure to carry into effect with
any degree of thoroughness the gener-
al elements involved in the system.
CD Failure to adopt the full system
OF functional foremanship'
(c) Lack OF uniformity in the meth
cd OF selecting and hiring help.
CD Failure to substantiate claims of
scientific management with reference to
the adaptation, instruction and training
OF workers.
(e) Lack of scientific accuracy, uni
formity and justice in time study and
task-setting.
CD Failure to substantiate the claim
of having established scientific and
equitable method of determining wage
rates.
(g) Failure to protect the workers
from over-exertion and exhaustion.
(h) Failure to substantiate the claim
that scientific management offers excep-
tional opportunities for advancement and
promotion on basis of individual merit.
Cd With reference to the alleged
methods and severity of discipline under
scientific management the acrimonious
criticism" from trade unions does not
seem to be warranted
% Failure to substantiate the claim
that workers are discharged only on just
grounds and have an effective appeal to
the highest managerial authority.
(k) Lack of democracy under scien-
tihc management.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-08
WORKERS MAKING HISTORY.

Washington-Last Monday DR.. Atl
and Luis N. Morones, representing
Mexican workers, teegraphed from
Eagle Pass. Texas, to President Comp
ers that delegation of Mexican trade
unionists would be in Washington the
following Saturday, July 1. to meet with
President Gompers and the A. F. of L..
executive council, which has been in
session all week.
This meeting will be the result of a
suggestion by President Gompers, sever
al weeks ago, that representatives of A..
f. of l.. and the Mexican organized
movement meet in FL Paso, Texas, at a
date to be decided later for the purpose
of exchanging matters of mutual inter
est. After correspondence between the
parties, it was decided that the meeting
be held in Washington.
1t is the first time that meeting of
this character has been held and indi-
Gates the increasing solidarity between
organized workers on the North Amer
ican continent.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-08
CLEVELAND, O., July Z, 1916.

Anything for delay, is the plan Of the
railroads in dealing with the demand OF
the employees for an eight-hour day is
charged in statement issued today by
the Transportation Brotherhoods.
Railroads are spending hundreds of
thousands of dollars to ask the public
for their support on proposition to re-
fer the controversy to the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The public should know that the In
terstate Commerce Commission only
very recently and on two different oc-
casions, have reported at some length
and in considerable detail upon this very
question. Its reports comprehend two
wide spread Investigations since 1910
and are the result of attempts on the
part of the railroads to make use of
increases in wages to induce the Com
mission to give its consent to increases
in freight rates.
The whole subject of wages was gone
into by the Commission with much care
and in great detail.
The railways were fully represented by
counsel and large numbers of witnesses
testified in their behalf.
Eminent counsel appeared in behalf Of
the opposition to the roads.
The attorney of the Commission also
participated in the proceedings and pre-
pared and presented for consideration, a
great mass of statistical information.
After full hearing of the investiga-
ton upon all the facts and circumstances.
the Commission held that there was no
evidence before it which established the
necessity for high rates.
And again in 1914 the same elaborate
and thorough investigation into the sub
ject of wages as having bearing on the
necessity for increased rates, was held.
This federal tribunal said, lit is in
teresting to note that Notwithstanding
wages constitute a large part of the
Transportation expense, this item of ex
pense has shown relatively small ad-
vance as compared with other groups
The Commission called attention tc
the fact that efficiency of operation and
management are the most important
things in the reduction of operating ex'
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-08
Scientific Management
Is a Trick Term
Efficiency Systems" So-called Preparedness and Bogus
Patriotism, Are Devices to Fool the Public.
By PRESIDENT GoMpERs in American
Federationist.

By PRESIDENT GoMpERs in American
Federatonist.
The case for scientific management
has one great advantage. Those who
devised the system selected their nom
enclature. They have been mindful of
the principle laid down by Ivy Lee
the Machiavelli OF publcity-they have
been very careful of the terms that
were lodged in the public mind. They
have named devices scientific manage
ment' and efficiency systems" and then
assumed because the systems bore such
names, they necessarily resulted in
greater production and better methods
Those who knew the devices as names
only hastily concluded that opposition
to them was opposition to progress
greater efficiency and productions; So
called preparedness and bogus patriot
ism.
We must insist that those who pro-
pose revolutionary changes shall prove
their case: But these proponents OF
Scientific methods applied to labor
power have dogmatically asserted that
their regulations are scientific, that
stop-watch studies are scientific, that
the bonus system provides a scientific
basis for wage payments, that such "ef-
ficiency' promotes industrial and com
mercial development. To hide their
hypocrisy and rapacity scientific man
agement experts have coined a vocabu-
larry bristling with suggestive noble
thoughts and purposes.
The proponents of scientific manage
ment have rallied for desperate defense
of their cause. Congress has been
bombarded with pronouncements, ap-
peals, denunciations from employers
boards OF trade chambers of commerce
and those professionally interested in
scientific management. An investiga-
ton was made of scientific management
for the federal commission on indus
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-08
Railroads Spend Thousands
Asking Support of the Public Through the Daily Press
The Railroads Were Represented By Counsel and
Experts at the NeW York Conference.

penses, and as an illustration, the Com
mission cited the statement of the Cen
eral Superintendent of Motive Power
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad, who less
encd the cost OF building locomotives
between 1908 and 1913 although the rate
of wages increased nearly 40 per cent.
The official utterances of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission answer att
thoritatively, questions raised by the rail-
roads in their opposition to the present
movement of the railway Brotherhoods
for an eight-hour work day for employ
es in freight train service.
These questions have been raised by
the railroads and by the roads through
the u. S. Chamber of Commerce, solely
to confuse and perplex the public mind
and in an endeavor to prevent the Amer
ican people from securing clear per-
spective of the social and economic sig
nificance of the establishment of a
shorter work day, for some $4,000 train
employees.
Railroad officials well know that the
Interstate Commerce Commission has no
power to fix the rate of wages after an
whole controversy would, after an in
NSStSdtlOll, DC Ill llle sdllle COlultlOll
as it is at the present moment
Should however, the Interstate Com
merce Commission recommend the grant
ing of the demands OF the employees, the
Commission would automatically be held
responsible for any increase in operating
expenses resulting from the granting of
the demands; therefore, would be COM
PEELED to assent to an increased freight
rate which is perhaps the very thing that
the railroads are trying to secure out Of
this controversy.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-08
ASK BETTER VENTILATION.

Los Angeles, Cal.-The Moving Pic
ture Operators union has inaugurated
campaign for better ventilation for its
members while working.
1T is indeed difficult matter" says
President Harden, "to explain to the lay
man the dangers of badly ventilated and
unsanitary operating rooms, for few, if
any, of the motion-picture patrons have
the opportunity or inclination to visit the
workshop of the man behind the gun
the man who daily sits hour after hour
in little cubby hole and causes the
picture to flicker across the screen. The
high rates charged us by the insurance
companies, however, should be absolute
proof of the hazardous nature OF our
work
"Already we have had two deaths in
our organization as direct result OF
the confinement under which our men
must labor, and we are at the present
time paying sick benefits in an effort
to combat further fatalities. There are
also several of our members who, while
being in no immediate danger, are, nev-
ertheless. being constantly treated for at
Fiction of the lungs, caused by the pol
sonous gases arising from the burning
carbons of the arc lamps. 1t is to alleVl-
ate conditions such as these that we are
pleading for better air in which to
work "
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-08
COTTON INDUSTRY EXPOSED.

Atlanta, Ga.-Henry NJ Stanley COM
missioner of commerce and labor of
this State, has published the first COM
plete and thorough report of the con-
dition of Georgia textile mills last year.
In the 166 mills 37,305 operatives were
employed These included 1876 chill
dren under 16 years of age. Total
wages paid by these mills was $12355,-
sss.4O. This includes the superintend-
ents, managers, clerks, and all others
connected with the industry. The aver
age wage, including the children, is
$3312 year or 1864 a week.
These cotton mill owners are opposed
to trade unionism and are the leading
opponents in the fight against the child
labor law, now pending in the United
States Congress.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-08
RAILWAY CLERKS WIN STRIKE.

Maybrook, N. Y.-The Brotherhood of
Railway Clerks has won Is days
strike against the Central New England
railroad The company attempted 10
construe an agreement that would force
these employees to work nine hours day
instead of eight and one-half hours.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-08
WANT DAY OF REST.

San Francisco,-The Labor Council
has instructed its officials to ask the
Washington authorities to arrange Tor
a six-day work week for engineers and
fremen employed at army posts and in
federal buildings in the vicinity of San
Francisco.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-08
SHIP CAULKERS WANT MORE

Portland, Ore-The Ship Caulkers
union has notified all ship concerns in
this city that beginning today wages shall
be $5 day.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-08
BAKERS ORGANIZE.

Billings, Mont-Bakers have formed
a union and received charter from the
international of this craft.
The sun., 1916-12-21
Due Saturday
EUROPEAN MAILS.

The creek steamship Themi7lo los s''
ing to-day for firrus, vi. tk. r4,
specially addressed only, closing - l. NJ
for Greece.
Tn. steamship TOMS ssiIng ,r-lt
kIrkNsii, ChrlsttsU saui sul cope 70
viii take mat for NurNaN, sweden. D~1
mark, GERMANY, Austria, Huusar,. laN.ft
hurg, Bulgaria. serbia and Turkcy ,'t-.
at 10 4. NJ
The Dutch steamship Nonrism saiitg
II. morrow for Rotterdam vii itkr ma.
closing at $40 \ NJ. for tho \ctrrr ,uis
The American liner New York. ~,i tvs 90.
Saturday for Liverpool, viii TAX iuti'. ylo.-
ing at sac \ VI fnr Europe, except t,A'
many, Austria Iiungary. ~IM>empurg ia
garia, Serbia. TURKEY, Netherlands, Norwa>
Sw eden and
The French uncr Tnurtiuc. sai'iug a.
SATURDAY. for RordcsuN, Nh take mali. ,ios.
Ing at u NJ, for Franc. SWITZERLAND Ia.
spain. Portugl, tg} pt. Irc""o. Rli,isl
India, British Fact Nri"a, siam Mat.
Gibraltar. t"ylor STRAITS settlements. Ia g.
East Indies, Wcst Australia and Persia
The White Stui ,urr Alstili', Soiiug ~,
saturday for IAvcrpu', vi. take mat, ,Ios
ing At $40 \. NJ, for All tur"p" r,,cp
iiermauy, Austria, Hungary, lH>cmburg
Bulgaria, serbia, Turkey, Netherlands. NuI
wav, sweden and Denmark
The sun., 1916-12-21

~ Observation-Disclosures COURT.
COUNTY OF NEW YoRk.TITLE GUAR
ANTEE AND TRUST COMPANY. .Plaintin.
against CHAS. f. JONES COMPANY 81
al. Defendants. Action No. g. HAROLD
SWAIN, Plaintiffs Attorney, 1IS Broadway,
New York,
Pursuant to judgment entered December
lie auction, at the Exchange Salesroom. No.
iI-is vesey street. 10 the Borough Of Man
haitian. city Of New York, at II o'clock
noon on January nth. 1917, by Herbert A.
sherman. Auctionser. the mortsased prem
ises directed by said judgment to be sold.
situa ted on the southsrly side OF West l3<th
street $50 fee, six inches west Of the west
eriy side OF Amsterdam Ave. beins IS feet
. inches In width front and rear by ~ feat
IL inches In depth on each side. the side
lines being parallel with Am.terdam Ave.
walls. said premises being In the Borough
Of Manhattan. New Yerh cry. ana more
H. New Work. County Registers Office on
August 10. 1919, IN Lber :sS. Section of
Mortgages. page AL.
The sun., 1916-12-21
Movements Of Naval Vessels

WASHINGTON. Dec 2n--Th" tank ship
ArethUsa has trrivcd At Sewalls Point
battleshlp Connecticut At philade phia yard
4 stroyor cummings at New York yard
collier Cyclops Mt Hampton Roads, gun
boat Eagle" az Fort de pA!N; destroyer
FarraEIi at san Pedro collier Jason a,
Port an Prince; battleshtps Montana and
Utah at Hampton Roads, collier Nanshar
a. san Diego. hattlesh!p New York and
dos'royers Nicholson and Rowan ~ New
York yard. haitlcship oregon at Sar
Irir" tug IIHcataqna A. Guam cruiser
Tacoma at Guantanamo, nattlcship T"Na'
~ TompkinSN!llc
Collier Ci"sar las sailed from New fo'
,tdi1. submarines k-I and N-s from
charleston for Ky West. transport Han
cock from Ssntu Domingo tI'' for Phila
de phia hattlcship Michigan from Bomhai
Hook for Philadelphia, destroyer Mon
Afghan from Key West for Sew orleans
tug Rocket from Norfolk for TanRie
sound tug Sonoms from New York 70
Norfolk destroyer St"rctt from Key Yves
for Pensacola monitor Tallahassee from
charleston for Key West, destroyer Trux
ton from Eureka for Mare Island,
The sun., 1916-12-21
MANY CLUBS ENTER TEAMS.
"Met." District Well Represented
In 4. 4. u. Games.

4 strong team has been entered by the
Long Island A. &. for the metropolitan
tryouts which will be held in the Thir-
tecnth Regiment Arnory tomorrow
night. The tryouts are for the Junior ma
,ional meet in Buffalo ON January i.
Harry Ncwcomb. track manager of the
l. l. A. G.. entered two relay teams and
eighteen individuals,
Other clubs which have entered fun
teams are tho raulist A.'C., New York
\. g.. knights of ST. Antony. Loughlin
I IA Columbia University. Alpha
Physical Culture club. Clarke House A,
A.. West Side Y. NJ. g, A, New Haven
\. a. Central Conversational A. A., PAS
| time \. -. American Walkers Assocla
ton, BROOKLYN A A., -, Christopher
club. Sa,cm-crcsrcnt A C., Jersey Har-
ricrs A. A.. Poly Prep, Boys club, Glen
coc \. &. and Nuukcrs Y, NJ &. A.
The sun., 1916-12-21
ARMY ORDERS.

WASHINGTON. Dec. ~2o--TAese army
order. we're issued to-day:
capt. George IT. Bow nan, cavalry. de.
tached. so Inspector. instructor OF National
Guard Of Massachusetts and New Hamp-
shire.
capt. Robert u wesco;t. infantry. un.
assigned. to Eleventh. Infantry.
Leave of. absence granted second Lieut.
+. .. Knight, First Infantry, virginia Ma
,icnai Guard. extended twenty days.
designations accepted: Capt, Ivan J.
Dove. Third Infantry. Ohio Na;iona!
Guard; second Lieut.. David r. wheeler;
Third Field Artillery, New York National
Guard: second Lieut., Frank G. Nase,i'
capt. Morris L. Locke. 10 Eighth Field
capt Roy y, Harper. to Twelfth Cavalry.
capt. w ". IS whitesids. to Tenth
cant, Marion " Howz., to seventh Field
capt. carr Boyd. To- Third cavalry.
lieu, orlando ward. to seventh cavalry
The !o,ioN .ug officers placed on detach'd
.st: Col, carl Re'chmarn,. intantry
Major . W Castle infantry. capt. W
T. Dunn seventh Field Artillery; Capt
r -. Gottschalk. Eigath Field Artillery
capt. Iau-sGn, Elevsnsh nsvairy
airy: Capt O. Il. Rodney Tenth cavalry
CAPT. " :, Martin. Third Cava,ry; capt
\ v Deans, Ir., coast Artillery, capt
II II. Bates. Coas, Artillery, Capt. !. \
j. \ stevens, Ntnth lntantr! First Lieut.
j. \ Brien. Twrnty sixth lafantry Frs
Lieu, j.. = Ei.crly; Twenty,tourth IN
fantry; Firt Lieut., J. t.. = rilsnn Jr.
seventh cavalry, First Lieut.. { T. MIils
| Ninth cavalry.
The sun., 1916-12-21
ASIATIC MAILS.

Hawaii, VIA san Francisco, per steam.
shin Matsonia, close at II 30 T. VI. FRIDAY
Japan. corea, CHINA ,cNccpt'nS Sh,us
hal Cityj and Philippine Islands, Via Nan.
couvsr and Victoria, H. a., close At $3.50
y NJ. saturday,
Shanghai and specially addressed ma
for other parts Of china, Japan sNd roret,
Via Seattle. pCr steam nip litthy U.ua.
close at $50 T. Saturday
Africa. W's, Asia and E1s' IN Hes, sps
ciAllS addressed maj 'ltt. H. Into >tai
l,r~r iris,i, VIA liSerpN'. H''sIas a. n.2s
4. n ON Safuria'
Postmaster Morgan anuonuc"i ,rserdn =
that mails witch arrived frow Manila
the steamer Asia N"rc iasUai'hri Gas;
from Seattle on December 10 and are due
In New York ON saturday morning.
The sun., 1916-12-21
AMATEUR BOXING DATES.

The championship committee ~ tho
\. a L. announced last niIht that N.
metropolitan championship bouts will
he held at solne 'oca! ciMh one week
before the national Championships arc
decided in Arril and that tho New York
s,,, New Jersey state title bouts also
Will be held In April.
The sun., 1916-12-21

These navy orders were issued
Commando l.. Williams to home. walt
orders.
Lieut. " ~llgget,, Jr, to Portsmouth
yard.
Ensign H. II clarke, detached. Mime
sofa to Come tivut
The sun., 1916-12-21
RONHARDT WINS CHASE.

10 Runhard, " tho Ndyicr \ \, won the
four mil" cross country run staged by his
'asi night, Twenty four athletes took
mar In tn chase. Thr run started from
the Xavier clubhouse, in Fourteenth street,
~BnuhHrdis time WAS 2l:t5, II. Friedman
nC the Seward a, A. was second. The order
of the 0uIsh.
The sun., 1916-12-21

IN Observation-Disclosures COURT.
COUNTY OF NEW YORk.-rITLE GUAR
ANTEE 4 TRUST COMPANY, Plaintiff.
against CHAs. T. JONES COMPANY ct
al. Defendants. Action No. J.. HAROLD
SWAIN. Plaintiffs Attorney, lie Broadway.
New York.
Pursuant TO judgment, entered December
goth, 1915. the undersigned will sell at pub
lie suction. at the Exchange Salesroon. No.
ls-l6 Vesey street. In the Borough Of Man
haitian. City OF New York. at IL o'clock
noon. on January lith. 1917. by Herbert A.
sherman, Auctioneer. the mortgAGed prem
ises directed by said judgment to be sold.
situated on the southerly side OF West lS<th
Street 3s3 feet west OF the westerly side o!
Amsterdam Ave. being a. feet . inches In
width front and rear by - feet II inches
In depth on each side. the side lines beins
parallel with Amsterdam Ave-. the west
erly line running partly through 4 party
wall. Said premises being In the Boro. OF
Manhattan. New York city. and more par
ticuisrly described In mortgage recorded In
New York County ReRister's Once on April
90. 1910. In libef :s>. Section : of Mort
cages. page l<0.
U.asN tNAsh ~
The sun., 1916-12-21

Street No. So? west iS+th street, New
York City.
proximste amount Of the mcrtgass debt.
costa and allowances. et7.562.2s; taxes, az
easements and water rates, 1890. d
Dated New York, December Goth, 1915.
JAMES A. DONE0AN. Referee.
The sun., 1916-12-21

EAot fOAth az,

East l0&th st.
The approximate amount Of the lien or
charge. to satisfy which the above described
property Ii to BE- sold. Ia eS3. 7s?.Ss together
with interest thereon from the 18th doy OF
November. 1919. together with the costs.
disbursement and extra allowance amount
Ing TO osis.s<. together with the expenses
OF the sale.
The Approximate amount Of the taxes.
assessments and water rates or other liens.
which are to Be allowed to the purchaser
out of the purchase money. or paid by !ne
referee. IL $50 and interest.
Dated. New Yor4. December I3th. 1916.
PHOESINrINGRAHAM Referee.