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...arose over the individual piece prices, employees contending that it was impossible to earn the basic rate agreed upon with the prices set on certain operations and foremen contending that certain other prices allowed the basic rate to be earned too easily, which tended to laying down on the job and consequent loss of production. Here again, the application of the plan was brought out and continues to the present to be a very satisfactory medium for obtaining justice for both sides...
...department, the representative acting as a sort of buffer, showing a desire to have the work done in the quickest method and on machines that were suitable for it. We've always made them that way,' is now seldom offered as an alibi, under the close analysis given the job by the combined efforts of this cooperation...
...Another time-worn argument of the foreman used to be when a man protested a price that 'it covered the man who did the job previously for that price and who made good money on it,' which was true. But we found at the time the representative entered on the scene, that there was another factor which had often been overlooked, namely, the type of machine that the price had been set on. It might have been a lathe job and timed on a certain lathe and the operator who was protesting against the price was doing the job...
...crews start work at Gales' Ferry today with a new hand at the helm. This hand will endeavor to straighten out at the eleventh hour the erratic course of this year's university crews. P. J. Corderry has the hardest job on his hands in American university rowing. With an inexperienced crew and a discredited system he has 18 days in which to train a winning combination. If he can do it no coach in the country -- no, not even the famous Dr. Spaeth will be considered greater...
...Such an attitude towards scholastic work is just the opposite of that adopted by men in college activities. There would be one thing only for a candidate to expect if he handed his manager a report a week late,--the same thing given the Harvard man in his first job. If the student can understand discipline in activities, why not in college work...