Show LABOR 4 r TO BE TESTED FOR FORI I ii iti EFFICIENCY s Plan Show Y Designed to Worth of Middle Aged and Old Men M J pi jl 1 to Th me Tol Telegram nm CHICAGO D Dec Deo o. o 8 The The work wont of ot ti testing the efficiency ency of men between n the ages of 45 and 65 alongside an equal number of or young men was begun be be- gun today by the committee of fifteen lar large arge e employers recently recently- organized with Benjamin J J. J Rosenthal a a. Chicago capitalist at Its head bead The committee was organized m Mr 1 Rosenthal said to upset Hie lie fallacious theory that men between between be be- tween the ages of 45 and 65 are fi fit only for the I In response to advertisements In Inthe inthe inthe the newspapers several hundred applications applications applications ap ap- ap- ap for work worle from men who had hat reached middle age or beyond have been received by the committee and anda a large force of clerks lent by 1 business houses today began to sift and and classify them We will start our first test next week said Mr Rosenthal Twenty middle aged men whom we have enlisted enlisted en en- i listed will be employed by one of the largest houses In Chicago The head of this house to make moke an efficiency test hest will put them In the correspondence correspond correspond- ence department Alongside of them will be twenty young men and each v Individual will be given the same work I to do They will open sort and file C correspondence orres and do auditing work If these these twenty middle aged men mendo mendo do half balt as much work as the younger men they will be be paid halt half as s much salary glary If their efficiency is equal equa nn to that of the younger men and they 1 j prove it they will receive the same lary r R Recently I took a score of men gad and pd put them to wrapping parcels in ina a large concern They were all experienced experienced ex ex- and so were the twenty l young oung men who wrapped beside them S l ot of only did the older men do as as' as Juch z uch work ork as the younger but In instances more I |