. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . W. W. SCOTT. Vice President, General Fc point of economic shop supervision. Yourshop output may be at the mercy of astorekeeper who is not of a progressiveand agreeable nature, and who takes par-ticular delight in withholding informationrelative to material that you ought toknow about. Some railroad companies areunfortunate enough to have such men. looking after their stores, a condition tosay the least is deplorable. It stifles theambition of any general foreman to bemisled on a material pro
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . W. W. SCOTT. Vice President, General Fc point of economic shop supervision. Yourshop output may be at the mercy of astorekeeper who is not of a progressiveand agreeable nature, and who takes par-ticular delight in withholding informationrelative to material that you ought toknow about. Some railroad companies areunfortunate enough to have such men. looking after their stores, a condition tosay the least is deplorable. It stifles theambition of any general foreman to bemisled on a material proposition, and itleads to a rapid decline of efficiency inshop management. The subject of Shop Specialization,Work and Tools was reported upon by Mr. W. T. Gale, Demonstrator, Chicagoand Northwestern Railway, Chicago, Gale presented some excellent illus-trations of the methods in vogue in vari-ous shops and laid great stress on thevalue of specialization, which, he claimed,was largely due to economic conditionsof our day. It is the result of close com-petition in all lines of trade, business andprofessions. Today competition is morekeen than ever. It is essentially the ageof trained men, of specialists, of men whoknow a given line well. There is smalldemand for the jack-of-all-trades. It isthe expert who is accomplishing the bigthings, and it is the expert who is gettingthe reward for his knowledge and is an era of the spec
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