Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-05-06 | Page 20 | American Waste

AMBBIOAX WASTB. As the apostles of scientific management man-agement have shown as. We Americans have wasted foolishly in tha individual processes of our industry. In the whole body of onr industry we have often wasted, not only foolishly, but cruelly, aad nowhere mora cruelly than ia the matter of proviaisn for the wreekaire of industry, the killed aad woanded is onr industrial warfare. Nearly err year, perils inevitable to an age of industry kill their thousands, thou-sands, and maim their tens of thousands. thou-sands. The railroads alone return an anusnal bet of killed aad woanded employees which match wall with real warfare). We hay recognised dimly that either society or the industry ia question eeree to this wreckage some form of strpport for crippled, impotent years, or for a new generation of unprotected un-protected survivors. Bat we are straggling along- on a system of compensation for industrial accidents which, as a relie of the old hand labor days, and which has worked out into a tangle of law, highly expensive, ex-pensive, incredibly eompneated, and decidedly unjust. All the so called progressive pro-gressive nations entered the era of specialized labor aad machine production produc-tion with legal principles similar to ours; all but tha United States have either amended them or changed them