. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . esis inclined to regard quantity ratherthan quality. This is especially so un-der the piece-work system which is socommon in our shops of to-day. Whileincreased output is the ultimate aim ofall the systems of wage payment for-mulated from time to time, in manycases it would be far better if some ofthe energy and money expended intheir formulation were saved and ap-plied to the practical working out ofthe derived plans. How often does alarge corporation spend a great sum inthe hiring of specia
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . esis inclined to regard quantity ratherthan quality. This is especially so un-der the piece-work system which is socommon in our shops of to-day. Whileincreased output is the ultimate aim ofall the systems of wage payment for-mulated from time to time, in manycases it would be far better if some ofthe energy and money expended intheir formulation were saved and ap-plied to the practical working out ofthe derived plans. How often does alarge corporation spend a great sum inthe hiring of specialists to perfectsome new system and then leave theapplication of the system to a low-priced, inefficient man. The result isthat the system does not reacli theworkman in the desired form, and oftenhe is obliged to sacrifice quality forquantity. The workman should be paid a fairprice for his work and then be given tounderstand that it must be done prop-erly and that he will be held responsi-ble for the correctness of previous aswell as his own operations, thus mak-ing each man his own inspector. The. SURPRISE CREEK BRIDGE,LAND. QUEENS- Tiabit of performing work on a piecewhich has previously been ruinedshould not be tolerated, and the man-agement should clearly give the work-man to understand that this is the case,It is here that the foreman comes in, inthat it is his duty to set the stand-ards for the workman and then to seethat his standards are being lived upto. The foremans interests extend fur- it must be remembered that an idealis one of the prime Paterson, N. J. Carl S. ther, in as much as while the workman towards idealization but nevertheless itis looking for individual production he is an ideal possible of attaint ent, and is looking for collective production,that is the shop output. While the se-curity of the foremans position depends upon the getting out of thehe should never do bo al th< acrifioof quality, for the success of work-man inspectorship will de
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