i 5 4 PROPOSED SYSTEM. 



individually, or displayed on a rack or bulletin board in the 

 workshop. 



Every room of consequence should have a time piece, or, in 

 extended works, time might be indicated as on board ship, by 

 whistle blasts, bells or gongs marking the time units. 



The 4Oth or 45th page of every book should be of a special 

 color, or be distinguished by a special mark, so that, when the 

 book becomes that far exhausted, another may be prepared in 

 season. This saves keeping a large number of books stamped 

 for each man, and avoids the loss resulting from sudden dis- 

 charges, etc. 



Piece Work. 



A man working on piece work, who has completed a suitable 

 batch of pieces, makes out a ticket to correspond, and gives it 

 with the pieces made to the foreman or inspector. If the work 

 receives the inspector's approval, he punches the service card and 

 forwards it with the other cards. Whatever deductions are 

 necessary, are indicated on the face of the card, so that it may 

 tell its own story completely. The amount space may be filled,, 

 or not, at pleasure ; it is for convenience in saving recomputation. 



Besides making a charge for his labor, it is almost as necessary 

 that the piece workman shall inform the office of how much time 

 he has spent on his work, so as to guide the office in future ad- 

 justments of the tariff. 



For this purpose the piece workman should give every day an 

 account of the time units employed on his job ; but to prevent his 

 getting paid for them by day's wages, by accident, he should 

 cross out the figures giving his " price per unit," so that the card 

 will give simply a time record, at no price. This, for a man who 

 usually works by the day and only occasionally by the piece. If 

 he is generally employed by the piece, it would be better to have 

 the " price per unit " blank, and let him fill it when required. 



The foreman's dating mark is taken as his acknowledgment of 

 the correctness of the charges, and also serves to sort all cards of 

 the same date together, if they should become separated. By 

 having him stamp them all with the same date, it becomes 

 unnecessary to depend upon the workman's accuracy in reckoning 



