The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-01

James Logan, three times mayor
of Worcester, Mass, and general man
ager of the United States Envelope
Co., took a fall out of the grasping.
labor grinding employer last night.
If there were such among the
many notable industrial heads of this
city at the gathering of 800 members
of the Bridgeport Manufactures as
ISOLATION in The Stratfield they with
cred in their chairs for probably no
more sincere arraignment of the
speed boss was ever delivered in
this city.
The human element in the past
as we'll as the present is the dominant
note in efficiency, asserted Mr.. Logan,
who from his description of the
worker, the alien and the foreign SOL
der in the trenches drew prophetic
pictures that had the ring Of truth
and warned Of the industrial future
of America and the world.
The "soulless" corporation was the
opening reference of the speaker.
"But in the future" he said, "the, en-
deavor will be to create souls and in
spire righteousness and it will be the
duty Of the manufactures to create
those souls himself"
Referring to the SOS when he be-
gan work and labored in a mill from
s a. m. to 7 p. M, he expressed
thanks that that day has gone by as
well as the master and servant" age.
In a large mandatory the worker
may never know the employer, yet he
meets his representatives in the fore
men and superintendent
AS the workman patterns after the
overseer who teaches him, emo fac
tory owner can afford the crouch
foreman or one of bad temper, inso-
ence and irritability." The heart and
the head Of the worker, is preferred
to his mere physical capacity today
for efficiency and in labor disturb
ances Mr.. Logan saw the effect of the
foreman and the hasty temper Of the
boss rather than the striker or the
labor agitator," who has made such
by a hasty word or arbitrary action
Of the misguided foreman.
The "self- made man. is more or less
a myth, or he is made by what he OPP
poses, inferred the speaker, in leading
up to the fact that personal influence
in industry today is often better than
personal effort. Success lies in know
ing how to handle the human elements
and the ratio of productive work to
the energy expended
Paving his respects to the efficiency
engineer he said: This profession
is one Of which great things are ex-
pected. In many ways progress has
been made but to some Of us not born
Yesterday the familiar sign at the rail-
road crossing might be read, Look,
listen, and stop
For real saving of cost, cooperation
Of the workingnan must be had, not
through force Of the overseer but
rather through the willingness and the
head and the hand Of the operative.
Raw material considered by many as
the prime essential of economy is Sec
ondary to time in the estimation of
Mr.. Logan. Thine is the real waste"
he repeated, land this does not mean
that the workingman must work hard
er but that he must be permitted to use
his own head"
In Illustrating the meaning he gave
an example of factory where two
workers were taken from the bench.
given a piece Of work and a watch and
told to devise e1nthods of time-saving.
The result was that the factory owner
found through their study he could
make increased profits and the work
ers found they could make fifty per
cent. more wages by their own de-
vice.
Such methods eliminated the speed
BOSS whose very name has today
killed his usefulness as a factor in in
dustry.
One of the problems and among the
greatest that confronts America is the
immigrant who should be considered
more than number on the payroll
today Mr.. Logan. himself Of foreign
asserted that the govern
ment should not ask the newcomer if
he can read but whether he has the
capacity to learn to read, and the
country should do the rest for him
until he can attain not naturalization
but citizenship in its fullest meaning.
prosperity always follows a war;
the speaker told his audience, and it
also means an advance to the nations
involved. It was so after the Civil