. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . airs, providing no new equipment iscalled for and nothing is done to antag-onize the men. Then Markham explained his plan toMr. Close. The general foreman thoughttwas worth trying and they started in. It took a month to get it going m goodshape, but they beat the regular rate byquite a little. The second monih they turned outlive engines and in the course of a fewmonths they were putting out six engineswith the same force. Then the generalmanager came down to see what was do-ing, as the idea
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . airs, providing no new equipment iscalled for and nothing is done to antag-onize the men. Then Markham explained his plan toMr. Close. The general foreman thoughttwas worth trying and they started in. It took a month to get it going m goodshape, but they beat the regular rate byquite a little. The second monih they turned outlive engines and in the course of a fewmonths they were putting out six engineswith the same force. Then the generalmanager came down to see what was do-ing, as the idea of paying $1,500 extrawages a month to the men at the CrossCut shops must be looked into and ex-plained somehow to the directors whenthey met. So the general manager carcame down the next day on the hen he went into executive session withMr. Close. Tell me all about it, Close. Youve gotme into the scrape, now help me out. Scrape? Call saving $1,500 a monthon engine repairs a scrape? Should thinkyoud be tickled to death instead of look-ing scared over it. Yes, but the pay roll or premium, or. PIKi: S IHAk RAILWAY, SHOWING RACK RAIL. whatever you call it. There it is in blackand white, $1,500 in cold cash as extrawages. What will the directors say tothat ? Why should they say any more thanto the $1,500 saved? Youve simply hand-ed back to the men half of what theysaved you. Havent spent a dollar fornew tools, or for more land, or morebuildings. Its simply a case of workingthe men more efficiently, and the com-pany gets half the saving. Well, Mr. C4ose, I dont know howtheyll look at it. If theyve got horsesense theyll say it ought to be adoptedall over the road. Now, Ill tell youwhat. That meeting is next come down to headquarters on num-ber 10 and tell the directors yourself—tliats how Ill get out of itIll be there and bring Markham, as its his scheme—not directors meeting was on. When 96 k \IL\VAV AXD LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING February, igoy the gener
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