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Show 1 TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN It will be shown later in this paper that doing away with slo workin an ‘"soldiering in all its form an s arrangin th relations between employer and employé that each workman wil work to his very best advantage and at his best speed, accompanie by the intimate cooperation with the management, and the hel (which the workman should receive) from the management, woul result on the average in nearly doubling the output of each ma What other reforms, among those which ar and each machine being discussed by these two nations, could do as much towar promoting prosperity, toward the diminution of poverty, and th alleviation of suffering America and England have been recentl agitated over such subjects as the tariff, the control of the larg corporations on the one hand, and of hereditary power on the othe hand, and over various more or less socialistic proposals for taxation, etec. On these subjects both peoples have been profoundl stirred,. and yet hardly a voice has been raised to call attention t this vastly greater and more important subject of ‘"soldiering, which directly and powerfully affects the wages, the prosperity, an the life of almost every working-man, and also quite as much th prosperity of every industrial establishment in the nation The elimination of ""soldiering" and of the several causes for slo working would so lower the cost of production that both our hom and foreign markets would be greatly enlarged, and we could compete on more than even terms with our rivals It would remov one of the fundamental causes for dull times, for lack of employment and for poverty, and therefore would have a more permanent an far-reaching effect upon these misfortunes than any of the curativ remedies that are now being used to soften their consequences I would insure higher wages and make shorter working hours an better working and home conditions possible /~ Why is it, then, in the face of the self-evident fact that' maximu clean.sh data import.tsv out README prosperity can exist only as the result of the determined effort o each workman to turn out each day his largest possible day's work that the great majority of our men are deliberately doing just th opposite,' and that even when the men have the best of intention their work is in most cases far from efficient There are three causes for this condition, which may be briefl summarized as First. The fallacy, which has from time immemorial been almos universal among workmen, that a material increase in the outpu of each man or each machine in the trade would result in the end i throwing a large numbe of men out of work |