. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sixty-live to seventy. He had aboutruined his machine, and a large part of theuiirk that he had turned out had after-wards to be scrapped. The master me-chanic, when he scrutinized the pay-roll,arbitrarily cut the price on this work aboutseventy f)er cent., simply saying \Vc dontwant these fellows to make over seventy-live or eighty dollars per month. Thoseof us who were working in the shop soongot wise to the fact that the old manhad set a limit, and we were particular notto give him any cau
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sixty-live to seventy. He had aboutruined his machine, and a large part of theuiirk that he had turned out had after-wards to be scrapped. The master me-chanic, when he scrutinized the pay-roll,arbitrarily cut the price on this work aboutseventy f)er cent., simply saying \Vc dontwant these fellows to make over seventy-live or eighty dollars per month. Thoseof us who were working in the shop soongot wise to the fact that the old manhad set a limit, and we were particular notto give him any cause to complain of ourmaking too much. The shop afterwardswas put on a day work basis, with propersupervision, and turned out more work atloss cost than it had been doing piecework. The Taylor system is another systemwhich, has its good points and bad is very elaborate, and practically con-sists of a planning bureau where everydetail of operation is worked out from the(irdcring of materials to the shipping ofthe finished products. The speed and feedsof machines, the time of transporting ma-. fic;. .1. (U)ODS KNClNi: work and influence on those under men, themselves, as a rule, have littleconfidence in the system, and simply tol- such as I worked under twenty-five yearsago, where prices were guessed at in agreat measure, so?ne very much too high. terials from one macliiuc to another, andthe sequence of operation and asst mhlingis all systematically worked over in ad-vance. -Ml of this is good, but i has a September, 1909. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING V?~ tendency, if not watched, to be carried toextremes and take away all initiative onthe part of foremen and workmen. Theprinciple seems to be that the brains are a great leader of men? Because of senti-ment. And why do thousands to-day bendthe knee and lay down their lives, if nec-essary, in the name of religion? Because
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