INTERNAL RELATIONS. . \>, 



The tickets follow the work in all its stages, both fortifying the 

 workman by their assurance, and affording necessary information 

 to the workman's superior. Finally, the work being done, they 

 pass definitely away, leaving a clean score for other entries, to 

 which an undivided attention may be applied. 



The difference between the tickets and the " fabrication book" 

 of the present system, see page 57, is now apparent: instead of 

 the completed orders occupying the most room, they now dis- 

 appear from view as soon as done ; while the only real objects of 

 interest, the incomplete orders, are most conspicuously displayed 

 before those who have them in charge. 



The standing orders give the system the flexibility without 

 which it would fail ; they permit it to be conducted as rigidly or 

 as loosely as may be desired. Whether loosely or rigidly carried 

 on, the result will certainly appear in the summing up of the 

 year's work. The more specifically the orders are originally given, 

 the better can the resulting charges be distributed to where their 

 burden belongs ; the more loosely they are given, the larger will 

 be the account for indefinite miscellaneous expenses. 



Between the fear of making his current work cost too much, 

 and of being reproved for the undue size of his general expense 

 accounts, the foreman will naturally incline to an accurate placing 

 of every charge he controls, for he knows that all expenses appear 

 somewhere in his accounts. 



It must be remembered that an order ticket does not represent 

 either labor, material or product. It is only a memorandum of 

 the authority by which certain expenses are to be incurred. At- 

 tempts to combine this with the other ideas will result in 

 confusion. 



