1 ( )() Materials and Their Handling 



In this new little factory which we arc talking 

 about, in order to make a table, there must be 

 somebody attending to the drawing of the designs, 

 to the laying out of the work, to the sawing of 

 the lumber, and to each of the other operations 

 before a table can be completed. Every man is 

 dependent upon every other man in a way which 

 did not exist in the old-time shop, and the jobs 

 are not individual any more; they are learn jobs 

 and they must be continued by a number of groups 

 working together or they cannot be operated 

 at all. 



It is this difference in the whole character of 

 industry which calls for a very different knowl- 

 edge to be possessed by all men in industry 

 knowledge involving a very different education 

 from the education given to the old-time worker 

 at the bench or the loom in the handworker's 

 shop. 



The Cooperative Job of Today. We have sub- 

 divided industry by this time until the job of pro- 

 ducing things is just one big cooperative job, at 

 which many millions of men are engaged in order 

 that we may be able to make all the things which 

 enter into our comfort and convenience and get 

 these to the people who need them. 



That washing machine, which has just been in- 

 stalled in the house to lighten the work of the 

 wash day, took some of the time of the men in the 

 iron and copper mines getting the ore out of the 

 ground. It took some of the time of the ore ships 

 which take the iron ore across the Great Lakes to 



