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Show Men Not Machines Due to the restrictions of our new immigration law, engineers are for the first time studying the men who run machines as well as the machines. This is according to a statement by Dean Arthur M. Greene, Jr., of the Engineering Engineer-ing school of Princeton university. He explains this remark by pointing out that the supply sup-ply of cheap labor has been vastly reduced by the new law, itnd that, in consequence to the employer of each individual laborer is far greater. ' . If the immigration law has indeed brought this about, tve ought to bow and give thanks. It wasn't so very long ago that the worker was considered con-sidered merely as a part of the machine he operated. Everybody knew that if the machine was forced to go the limit for a long period without proper care it would break! down, so the machine got careful attention ; but nobody worried wor-ried very much about whether the man who ran the machine broke down or not. , . "Industrial fatigue has thus far been insufficiently studied," says Dean Greene. ' We have learned in the last few years that the human machine cannot be driven beyond be-yond a certain speed without burning out the bearings." The working man has known it all along. That the employer, em-ployer, too, is beginning to realize it is one of the most hope-fuf hope-fuf signs industry has given us in many a year. |