The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-03
SAVING PLAN
is URGED FOR
PRODUCERS, in
EXPERT REPORT
American Engineers AS
sociation Considers
Possibility of Saving
SO Per Cent By Stop
ping Leaks In All
Kinds Of Business by
Better Management.

st. Louis, June 3.--Plans to elm.
nate so per cent OF the waste in man
ufaCturing which is causing enormous
annual loss in this nations business
which can be placed at the door of
management and 25 per cent at the
door of labor were set forth by the
American Engineering Associations
committee on waste in business, to.
day. in 4 report to the executive com
mittep.
The report said the margin of un-
employed labor amounted to a mil
lion men while billions of dollars were
tied up in idle equipment. that the high
labor turnover was an index to one
Of the cOmmoneSt wastes and that
waste of time and energy and money
through Implications and estimates of
buildings in the building trades
amounted to millions annually.
Capital and Labor Blamed
Both capital and labor are respon-
Sibc for existing abuses, it is said,
bnt the cost of conflict between them
is much less than popularity sup
posed.
From four to five million workers
were idle during January and Feb.
ruary of this year. In 1921 half a bil-
lion dollars will be lost in wages in
building trades, it was said. Nation.
wide machinery to secure facts
concerning conditions throughout
the country is declared necessary
Means for regulating employment in
the principal industries were urged
and cooperation between the govern.
ment, labor. employment trades, bank.
crs, engineers and others were out
lined. The waste inquiry was in
charge of a committee of sixteen
headed by J. Park Claiming. of New
York, as chairman, and l.. w. Wal
lace, of Washington, executive see
retary of the American engineering
council of the Federated American
Engineering societies. as vice chair
man. This was the beginning of a
movement by the country's organized
engineers, about 100000 in number, to
bring about better industrial condi-
tiOns and more harmonious relations
between capital and labor.
Report Is VoIuminous
The full report comprises 1850
words and deals with the deep-seated
cause of waste and does not consider
the present business crisis due in
part to worldwide waste and extraya.
gance caused by the war" as an ex,
cuse for transitory experiments, but
as an opportunity to point out the
need for permanent reform. The
committee outlined the following pro
posed program of governmental as
SiStance to eliminate waste:
Reform Service Urged
national industrial information
service should be established to fur
nish more timely, regular and COM
production and consumption and
stocks of commodity; a national sta
tistical service should be established
covering employment requirements :;
national policy regarding public
health should be fostered and en-
couraged; the national program for
industrial rehabilitation should be
encouraged and should offer opportun.
tiles for education and placement to
those having physical defects as well
as those handicapped because of in
dustrial accidents; a nationwide pro.
gram of industrial Standardization
should be encouraged in conjunction
with industrial interests; the govern
ment should recognize the necessity
for a revision of such federal laws
for stabiliZation of industry; set of
principles should be adopted under
which disputes could be settled