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Show SHORTER HOURS TO RESULT IN GREATER OUTPUT Here are a few ideas on the question of working hours, expressed ex-pressed by James P. Lincoln, President Pres-ident of the Lincoln Electric Company Com-pany of Cleveland, and of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Lincoln maintains that a worker, given the proper incentive, incen-tive, produces more goods in eight hours than he does in twelve and says that the solution of the manpower man-power problem is in individual worker efficiency and not in long hours. He says that no Individual can work beyond a certain number of hours per week without reduced output and that "experience shows that twelve hours a day does not produce as much as eight hours a day; that six days' work out of seven, other things being equal, produces more output than seven I days continuously." I The Cleveland industrialist j points out that labor likes overtime over-time because it gets time and a half and that management likes it because, in general,, management doesn't pay the bill anyway and secures greater production. Frankly, we cannot pose as much of an expert upon the question ques-tion involved. We have tried the twelve-hours-a-day schedule, but, so far, have never been able to arrange matters so that we could get on an eight-hour-day, six-days-a-week. |