. Addresses and discussions at the conference on scientific management held October 12, 13, 14, nineteen hundred and eleven. spend, simplydo a little at the time and pay for it as you go along. Butif you have the money, and have faith, spend your money asan investment and take it back in a term of years. Mr. Lincoln: I anticipate this difficulty, which I shouldlike to get cleared up. The shop I operate I inherited frommy grandfather, and a great many traditions have grown upin seventy years. We employ in the neighborhood of 300men, and I anticipate now that there is going to be moreor less dif
. Addresses and discussions at the conference on scientific management held October 12, 13, 14, nineteen hundred and eleven. spend, simplydo a little at the time and pay for it as you go along. Butif you have the money, and have faith, spend your money asan investment and take it back in a term of years. Mr. Lincoln: I anticipate this difficulty, which I shouldlike to get cleared up. The shop I operate I inherited frommy grandfather, and a great many traditions have grown upin seventy years. We employ in the neighborhood of 300men, and I anticipate now that there is going to be moreor less difficulty in introducing a serious revolution. Howwould you go about that? Mr. Barth: What kind of a store-room have you? Canany man go there who needs a piece of machine steel, andpick it out himself? Mr. Lincoln: Oh, no. Mr. Barth: If a man cannot do that, then you are alreadypretty well off. Mr. Lincoln: No, they have to have a requisition. Mr. Barth: That is not so bad,— that is the startingpoint. What about your orders? Do you manufacture astandard product for stock, or only as you get orders, or alittle of each?. ON SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 165 Mr. Lincoln: A little of each; we make cotton-millmachinery, but we have a double problem. We are in FallRiver and we make looms and power transmission which arestandard. Then, on the other hand, being in the center ofthe cotton-milling district, we have a large repair depaitment. Mr. Barth: That is, a man comes from the cotton-millwith a fifty-cent job and expects you to go over to the milland spend $5 worth of time and labor and charge onlyfifty cents for it? Mr. Lincoln: There is that double situation there. Mr. Barth: I have been through a similar factory, butit was worse than yours, because anybody could anywherepick up the material he wanted. It was the worst-run plantI have ever seen in my life. The management knew nothingabout the shop. It was simply a question of operating on asick patient, — either to kill him quickly, or
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