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Show APPENDI D 1 " their fear of making a record which will be used as a basis for piece work wil cause them to soldier as much as they dare "It is, however, under piece work that the art of systematic soldiering i thoroughly developed; after a workman has had the price per piece of the wor he is doing lowered two or three times as a result of his having worked harde and increased his output he is likely entirely to lose sight of his employer's sid of the case and become imbued with a grim determination to have no more cut if soldiering can prevent it. Unfortunately for the character of the workman soldiering involves a deliberate attempt to mislead and deceive his employer and thus upright and straightforward workmen are compelled to become more o less hypocritical The employer is soon looked upon as an antagonist, if not a enemy, and the mutual confidence which should exist between a leader and hi men, the enthusiasm, the feeling that they are all working for the same en and will share in the results is entirely lacking "The feeling of antagonism under the ordinary piece-work system becomes i many cases so marked on the part of the men that any proposition made b their employers, however reasonable, is looked upon with suspicion, and soldiering becomes such a fixed habit that men will frequently take pains to restric the product of machines which they are running when even a large increase i output would involve no more work on their part. |
