Some Aspects of Labor 



are, therefore, intimately and deeply con- 

 cerned with the spred of production and the value 

 of { department, for the cffi- 



,y of your group adds its part to the efficiency 

 he production, or its inefficiency makes things 



/" or. A manufacturer, 



employing live hurulrcd workmen, had a special 

 scheme for showing his workers the value of their 

 work. If he heard any worker say that this part 

 or that part was not very important, because it was 

 only a small part of the machine which they were 

 making in the shop, he would take that man out 

 to the place where a machine was being tes 

 have him remove that little part, and then 

 to run the machine. In this way it could be sh 

 that each minute operation in the factory and 

 ever Jual part produced was necessary to 



make a complete machine and, therefore, that 

 all parts of the ere important. The super- 



visor of a gang of workers repairing a railroad 

 track is doing a job which is just as necessary and 

 useful as that done by the man who sits in tin- 

 office planning improvements or dispatching trains 

 hat part of the line, and the president of a 

 great corporation is a workman in as real a sense 

 as is the nun who runs a lathe or sharpens a tool. 



A II Labor Is Rea Efort. Upon 



the foreman depends, to a very considerable c\ 

 tent, the speed and accuracy with which all this 

 useful work will be accomplished. After the work 

 has been planned, after the capital has been ex- 

 pended in buildings, machinery, and equipment, 



