The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-03
BAD MANAGEMENT
GREATEST FACTOR
IN MAKING WASTE
Is Responsible for More Than so Per
Cent of Waste in Industrial
Processes, Says
Report.

st. Louis, June Responsibility for
more than so per cent of the waste IN
industrial processes, which is causing
enormous annual losses to the nation,
can be placed at the door of the man
agement and less than 25 per cent at
the door of labor, declares a report Of
the American engineering councils
committee on elimination of waste in
industry made public to-day at meet
ing of the councils executive board
The committee was appointed by Her
bert Hoover, when he was head of the
council.
The report says that the margin OF
unemployment amounts to more than
q million men; that billions of dollars
are tied up in idle equipments; that
high labor turnover is a rough index OF
one of the commonest wastes, and that
waste of time and energy and money
through Implications and estimates
and bids in building trades run into
millions annually.
Both employers and employees re-
strict output, it is said. Both capital
and labor are blamed for existing
abuses, but the annual losses through
waste by conflicts between them is
much less than is popularity supposed.
From four TO five million workers
were idle during January and Febru-
nf L., hal hfIlfnfa
dollars will be lost in wages in the
building trades, the report says.
The inquiry was in charge of com |
mittee of Is, headed by j. p Claiming |
of Nv York, as chairman, and l.. w. |
Wallace of Washington, as vice. chair
man. This was the beginning of a |
by the country's organized |
engineers, about 100000 in number, to
bring about better industrial condi |
tions aud more harmonious relations |
between capital and labor
The report does not consider 'the
present business crisis, due in part to
world wide waste and extravaganza
caused by the war" as an excuse for
transitory experiments but as an op.
to point out the need for per
manent reform. and the committee
outlines the following program of gov
srfmental assistance TO eliminate
waste:
"A national industrial information
service should be established to fur
lish more timely, regular and com
'lete information covering current pro-
iuction and consumption and stocks of
national statistical
ervice should be established covering
Employment requirements national
'olicy regarding public health should
'e fostsred and encouraged; the ma
ional program for industrial rehabiIi-
alton should be encouraged and should ,
ffer opportunities for education and
lacement to those having physical de-
eets as well as those handieapped>be
ause of industrial accidents; a nation 4.
fide program of industrial standard
cation should be encouraged in con-
lnction with industrial interests; the
overnment should recognize the neces- @
lty for revision of such federal laws {
$ interfere with the stabilization of /
ldustry; a body of principles should I
e accepted which could be. developed |
)r the adjustment and settlement of O
Dor disputes" o
After emphasizing the need of re- $
,rm and improvement in plant man n
cement and administrative policies,
ne report urges the eoeferation of la a
or. n
Organized labor should develop a I
olicy for increasing output" il says. L
The attitude of opposition or indif q
renee to proper standards for produc- Ii
on should be changed TO a frank and a
ygressiye insistence on such stand a
'ds; there should be scientific exam o
alton of the basis for wages; Ger Il
in union rules should be modified in 81
gard 20 machine operation, appren- le
res and craftworkers' distinctions {,
hich result in restriction of output
dividual workers should realize their
sponsibilities for waste resulting
ON i'll health and disregard of safety VI
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