Show NOW CONTROL ARSENAL PRODUCTION AND W WAGE AGE PROBLEMS Secretary Y Baker Announces 1 Committees of url lII I C S Are lC in Chal Charge c of or x o Plant ri ASHINGTON Au Aug 31 Actual WASHINGTON control of oC tho the production activities of oC the Rock nock IslAnd arsenal har bar harness ness shops including appointment o ol 01 foremen and the determination o ol 01 s prices to be paid workmen has beer been turned over to committees of oC the em This became known today toda when Secretary Baker made mad public correspondence between the Iho war de Je department and representatives p of th tr e Matters of or administration ar arc c loft eft with tho the regular management but bul l even een bids submitted on contracts art arc e Influenced by the tho committees In carrying out tho the new plan which h is characterize In the correspondence e as the first reco recognition of tho the grin prin principle ciple of democracy as applied io to tu the t e manufacturing Industry an arsenal order branch has been established In it Inho t the tho ordnance department here to obtain ob oh obtain tain taro orders from other governmental agencies An nd advisory committee o of f representatives es Is Included include in this branch who actively assist In figuring J cost when bidding for work To 10 1 tend 11 m I Official reports to Secretary Baker Daker assert that the result has been not only greatly Increased efficiency anti and contentment among amonI tho the men but but a a radical reduction In manufacturing costs It II was learned tonight that the thc system soon would be extended to other departments department of or the Hock Rock Island IHland arsenal and If IC found successful would be placed placed In operation In all United States arsenals Development of oC the new nov system the announcement toda today s said ll grew out of or orthe the tho situation Immediately following the signing of or the armistice when It became apparent that the operating operating- force would would- be re reduced uell for lack of oC work but the Iho t o. o necessity for a change had been foreseen even before the warA warA war A condition of oC antagonism and distrust distrust dis- dis trust had haJ gr grown grown wn up prior to lo the war between true file management and the workmen according to a memorandum submitted by bj the employee committee as a n result of oC the attempted Introduction introduction tion llon of oC called so scientific manage manaSe management ment methods method and the tho men finally found their only recourse was to place a 1 deliberate limit on production Removed mo modOn On the outbreak of oC war however howe It was said the men voluntarily removed re removed removed re- re moved these limits HIl insisting only that I piecework prices should not nol be bo reduced re reduced re- re wIthout their consent In Instances Instances In- In stances are aro cited of oC the Iho men recommending mending reduction In In piecework I prices in or order cr that the arsenal could secure additIonal or orders rs and of or voluntarily vol- vol I agreeing to wor work wort luring during lunch hours in Ip In order that an n order which hind Imd been figured vcr very closel closely might bo be filled In a 1 letter to Se Secretary Baker Daker R. R I L. L Cornick and James 1 L L. McCorl McCort em cm ent representatives tlc on the arsenal branch summarize the Iho result as 83 follows foe fol lows low's Primarily the feel Ceel tho they J no longer feel reel Uk like mere mero sImply bunt on on n holding down dawn a Job conception of or quito ludo apart from their con life ure for fur furno forno no other purpose than the earning of ot wages the only crude means available to them for securing the th necessaries and perhaps a little or oft i l the better things of or 11 life fl They arc are r beginning to see that the they are on their wa way toward becoming partners In a large enterprise c that Is manufacturing f I turing useful things thInS's for their government govern govern- ment |