1 52 PROPOSED SYSTEM. 



i. INSIDE SERVICES. 



Each workman is supplied with a book of fifty pages, each page 

 containing a coupon card 2| x 5 \ inches and a stub about I \ inches 

 wide, in which, to save him writing, is stamped his shop number, 

 his name, and his wages per time unit, unless he is working by 

 the piece. Should he be steadily engaged at piece work at the 

 same price, his wages per piece unit should be stamped in the 

 proper place. 



His employment begins from the time he receives the book : 

 this prevents at the start many causes of misunderstanding as to 

 when services began and as to the wages to be paid. 



When the workman goes to work in the morning, he gets his 

 book from the foreman, and when he leaves work he returns it to 

 him, made out so as to indicate the distribution of his time dur- 

 ing the day. 



Day, or Time Work. 



The workman makes but one entry on each leaf, so that, if the 

 time unit in his shop be the quarter day, he may have, at the 

 most, four pages to fill, representing four different jobs. If time 

 is kept by the hour or by the half hour, he may have ten or 

 twenty pages to fill, depending on the variety of his employment. 

 If working steadily at the same job all day long, he will have but 

 one page to fill, although the units recorded will be 4, 10 or 20, 

 according to the time-reckoning adopted in the shop. 



(NOTE. This supposes the usual custom of reckoning 10 hours to a day's work, 

 although, in government workshops, the number is now reduced to 8.) 



He fills that portion of the card showing the employment by 

 writing under " Charge to " the symbols explained in Chapter 

 IX, adding such details as may be required to make the 

 symbols explicit, in the middle space. In the " time unit " space 

 he puts down the number of quarter days, hours, half hours, etc., 

 he has worked on the job represented in the first column, and on 

 the stub he makes such memoranda as he may wish to keep for 

 his own information. He then returns the whole book to his 

 foreman. 



The book thus serves a double purpose : it affords the workman 

 an opportunity of making a formal, definite charge for his labor, 



