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...which will mean certain defeat unless eradicated. The team seems to expect some one else to do its brain work for it, and is constantly caught napping on a point of rules. The team has the power to make a creditable showing if it will have some determination to correct its own faults and work together...
...system was not used again for years, however. The work of 1846 went for nothing because there were no subsequent data for comparison. In England the Labor office was established in 1893 under the leadership of Mr. Llewelyn Smith who is making an exhaustive search for correct data of hours and earnings of labor. In 1891 the Bureau of Labor was established in France. Specially trained agents are employed for thorough personal investigation and the results are classified according to the American method. In Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Canada, and Australasia a movement is on foot for the establishment...
...difficulties of obtaining correct data are almost insurmountable. In the first place all figures must be obtained by personal inspection, for a manufacturer answering a letter of inquiry would be sure to fall into one or more of the fatal errors enumerated above. The proper method of constructing a schedule is to show the wages paid to each employee through a period of years, but here the statistician is confronted with serious problems. The number of people employed is always difficult to find; and even when that is done he may be unable to compute the duration of the labor...
...there being perhaps fifty rates between the two extremes. Calculations can be made here only on the basis of average. The United States Census deals only with the statistics of wages relating to manufacturing but even here the method used is faulty and is a makeshift for the correct system, which is impossible of consumtion. The problems of collecting railroad wage statistics are also perplexing on account of the great variety in the grades of labor employed. The railroad managers in giving out their figures have been accustomed to throwing all the grades about a thousand in number, into five...
...excellent judgment displayed, the team by no means played a first-class game. Although a very creditable victory was won, the Pennsylvania game showed that the playing of the team is still far from being thoroughly developed and that many faults exist which will need much hard practice to correct and which will prevent any danger from over-confidence...