Show W 44 to say gay efficiency aa natural tendency Is t the term should POP properly Cly be understood ais ls to p 3 0 T i X injurious T toward sweat 1 oward V labor x t the worker would be decad 4 ed adly y read reactionary ionar but I 1 in by CHARLES L L BAINE beaton MM ma the public mind the kind of efficiency considered is so called efficiency of the speeding ng up advocates so sometimes mAlines called production engineers who are arc willing to fo let themselves to io an empl employer byer for a fancy price on their representations that they can show him hodio how to got get moro more work out of labor for less money whether efficiency proper or aci efficiency 1 ency so called ib a benefit or an injury to labor depends upon the purpose behind the efficiency movement it is not difficult for a layman lamn to understand that the turning out of a larger quantity of work in the same floor space is an economic uneconomic advantage to capital and any facilities they may furnish to iliac end is to their benefit if labor is paid in proportion to the amount agouni each accomplishes it may may also be a benefit to labor especially if added facilities make mae it possible to accomplish more work with an equal or lessened amount of effort wo we of the trade union union movement movement recognize that the men of an any given industry know more about that industry than they do about other industries therefore speaking of the shoe industry with which I 1 am somewhat familiar and in which piecework very largely prevails the co condition ought to be that when the output of the workman is increased through any added facilities furnished by the employer the earnings of the operative ought to fo be larger unfortunately however tho the general rule has been that when a shoe manufacturer has put in a new machine that willbo will do more work lie jie asks aska for a lower price so as to get the added production with awnet anet a net gain to himself and leave tho the worker no better off than he was before and perhaps worse off if the employer is strong enough to force a readjustment favorable to himself he does it and if the union union is strong enough to gain for the worker some measure of justice he be gets it and not otherwise personally I 1 cannot see that the so called efficiency is of benefit to labor because it seems that the natural tendency of its disciples i isAo is to use it to sweat labor and not to reward it it therefore becomes in a sense d destructive of the better relations that might exist if both employers and employees were disposed to deal fairly with each other it appears to the writer that so far all efficiency systems leave out of consideration the all important human element without which the whole scheme fails of a constructive climax manis man is a variable quantity depending upon his physical condition this fact causes the variations which create differences of opinion on this ibis much discussed sub subject act |