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Show AMERIOAN "00." Story of Yankee Management of British Labor. That there Is nothing Inherently licking lick-ing In tho niltish woikinan, as com-pnied com-pnied with his Ainerlian cousin, except the prevailing nngllsh labor Ideas, und Intk of eflklent management. Is clearly demoniitiatcd In the Interesting case of a large Aluerlinii tontcrn which Is building u luge factury In Kngland. Upon loinpMIWf the plans for tho work tho most prominent llngllsli bui rs wen uked to lompctennd to sp I" the time ieiiilred It ..a- a'l-tl a'l-tl natively stuted that the best ofter, us leguids time, was four leirn. To un AinerUnn concern to wait four seam for a factory seemed utterlv lldl-riilou. lldl-riilou. to the company decided to build tho fnttory Itself, the time limit given tho manage! being one scar. The woik la now so far advanced that thciols no doubt as to its completion within tho specific time. How was It iinonipllshed7 The slory of tho brlcklaslng tells tho wholo secret se-cret When the American mannger In-oulied In-oulied bow many bricks a workman lould lis In a day ho was astounded tu h told only four hundicd and lifts'. Nothing daunted a thoioiighly tlllcient stuff ot Anwilcan foremen was engaged, en-gaged, , . To encourage the workmen nnd to tempt tho moHt skillful, the wages of-fcicd of-fcicd were 2 cents an houi higher thnn tho union late. Tho maximum output at (list, nevertheless, reached 000 bilcks per man pel das', bs a continuous continu-ous piocess of elimination of the lenst-(lttcd. lenst-(lttcd. nnd bv means of bonuses pild to foremen and u cnieful Inspection of dally reports of piogiess the aveiago was giadunlls Imrean-d to between 1800 and :000 bricks per man dnlly. It natuinlly followed that the building, l" ugh put up with the hlghest-pilccd labor, lias cost much less that, If put un in four sears Instead of one. Ah to 'inn? and malerhl used It Is omclaUy teported that SO per cent of it v as .Imported .Im-ported from this country it prices averaging i0 per lent below thoso liuoled ly lliltlsli suppliers foi similar P lhls,,arllll'chil'reslrKllon of the out-mil out-mil of labor, lesultlng In a laige pirt rnmll'c domination of ',''e A"1?,"! Ism, la nppniently leoponsllile for the steiirty dei lino of Hi tlsh piodmts In The vorl 1 s markets, pa. tlcularly In the Held of engineering works. |