"business; that is not in my department ." Then even a 

 signal might "be wron "but lie would cay a^ain "That is none of 

 my business, belongs to the signal dspartniont" etc. 



HOT?, under the unit S3' r 3teni, it \/as tho airn to do 

 away wit?; this over-specialization and to ma!:e your man res- 

 ponsible for the whole, with particular responsibilities as 

 to ono particular liind of wor:.:; and so under the divisional 

 organization, each man was made asr.istont superintendent , 

 The tra&n master, yard master end master mechanic - these 

 men woro all made assistant stipe r int ondont s , and rs such the 

 master mechanic would have specie..! supervision over the lo- 

 comotive c and shop v/or"-:, Init it -/ould always "be his right to 

 correct any errors that he mifiit soe in train operation; 

 correcting thoco errors immediately and then reporting them 

 to the man vrho \:ould he in charr.o o tlia-j line of \7orlr, so 

 t/at it V7ould "brighten the man, ivo hiu soae iirformation of 

 tho v;ho?G of operation, and it v;ould onahlo him to coordinate 

 his particular lino of -;or> v/ith tlie > .;or?: as a v/hdlo. 



That ic t;ie fundamental underlying tho unit systom 

 of organization aE introduced "by Major Hyno. The men uero all 

 pv.t in ono room. _xll thoir wor!: \/as arranged to cone from the 

 dos!z of ono man, an assistant suporintond'ont with authority 

 to act, and this man would then redistribute this to tho sov- 

 oral assistant super intondents for attention. U T - ; aftor any 

 one had acted upon it, it cane before all the others, so that 



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