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Show How Mechanics Are Made Noir. 'Tho way in which men learn trades in this age of the world," said a man who has made a study of the subject, "is at variance with the way they used to learn. In the old times when a man went to a trade bo began and mastered it piece at a time. And by and by he could make whatever ho was working upon entire. I know a man who works in a watch factory. He has been there eleven years, and all he knows is how to make a balance wheel. Aside from that he knows no more about the mechanism mech-anism of a watch than a man who never saw one. "Another man I know works in a wagon wag-on factory. Ho works on hubs. Nothing Noth-ing else. 'Another man works on spokes, another on the tongue, and so on, but not one of them knows how to put up a wagon as a whole. The result is if one section of the labor in a large factory goes on a strike it throws the whole shop out of balance. What affects a part affects af-fects the whole. Labor has mado great strides in the last twenty years. This thing of teaching one mechanic one thing and another something else was wisely schemed by somebody. By it, if the plan continues, the mechanic will soon be master of the situation." Chicago Tribune. |