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MOST OF INDUSTRIAL
WASTE IS CHARGED !
TO MANAGEMENT;
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Le? Than Twenty-five Per Cent It
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Placed at Doors of Labor Says
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6t. Louis, Mo., June 4.?Responsi-,
bility for more than 50 per cent of
the waste in industrial processes,
which is causing enormous annual
losses to the nation, csyi be placed
at the door of the management and
Jess than 25 per cent at the door of
labor, declared a report of the American
Engineering Council's Corner.
imittee on elimination of Waste in j
.Tnrlrxstr-v marip TVllblic todav at a
meeting of the council's executive |
|v , board. The committee was appointed
|V by (Herbert Hoover, secretary of
?. , commerce, when he was head of the
- council. The report showed that the
margin of unemployment amounted,
1x> more than a million men; that
?L* > > i>ilKons of dollars were tied up in |
'* ' idle equipment; that high labor'
turn-over was a rough index of one
of tlhe commonest wastes, and that
jf waste of tdme and energy and
K.v- money through duplications and estimates
and bids in building trades
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y. Both employer and employes restriA
output, it was said. Both capital
and labor are blamed for existing
abuses, but the annual losses
through waste by conflicts between
. them is much less than popularly
supposed.
_ - From four to five million workers
were idle during January and Febru&y
of this year. In 1921 half a'million
dollars will be lost in wages in
the building trades, it was said.
'Nationwide machinery to obtain
conjtinuous information concerning
P unemployment conditions throughly
out the country is declared neces'
jjT, " Sary. Means for regulating employment
in the principal industries
? '; were urged and a nationwide plan of
cooperation between the govern\
ment, the public, trade associations
the industries, labor bankers and
l::' engineers was outlined.
; t The waste inquiry was in charge
v of a committee of sixteen headed
iby J. Parke Channing of New York,
.as Chairman and L. W. Wallace of
|jv.' ' Washington, executive secretary of
the American Engineers Council of
the Federated American Engineering
societies as vice chaiAnan.
i. This 'was the 'beginning of a movefc
. ment by the country's organized engineers
about 200,000 in number,
for better industrial conditions and
more harmoqdoais realtions between
capital and labor. The full report
&V comprises 125,000 words and deals
with the deep seated causes of waste
and does not consider "the present
business crisis due in part to world- '
wide waste and extravagance cause j
% . by the war," as an excuse for transib
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tory experiments, (but as an opport
tunity to point out the need for per- ^
"manent reform. ^
The Committee outlined the fol- j
J, lowing proposed program of govern- T
. mental assistance to eliminate waste ]
!"A national industrial information
service should be established to
inxiriah (more timely, regular com
plete mftwmation covering current
V' / production "and consumption and
stocks of commodity; a national]]
.policy regarding public health
should be fostered and encouraged;
tie national program .for industrial
'? rehabiliation should be encouraged
and should offer opportunities foreducation
and placement to those
have physical defects as well as
those handicapped because of indus?
trial accidents; a natidnwide prograin
for industrial standardization,
should be encouraged in conjunction'
| " with industrial iterests; the govern- j
^ f ment should recognize necessity fori
' . a revision of such federal laws as I ?
interfere1; with thp n-r '
J industry; a body of principles should j
| .be accepted which could bejxlevelop- v
Lyj&ed for the adjustment and settle
E lament of labor disputes." - t
s Public support for the movement a
Bs?. the report said, should be brought J s
r - about through public recognition of p
I a greater stabilization of style to
I lessen the demoralizing -1>
I seasonal fh*-*- ? -street of |<
j .^^oatlonfr as well as a.(i
(*uore distribution throughout J;
the year of public demand. Thej
chambers of commerce) the report,
( said, should inaugurate anti-waste j
campaigns and collective purchasing
agents should educate the public irt'
better methods of buying.
After emphasizing the need of reform
and improvement in plant management
and administrative policies
the report urged the cooperation of
labor.
"Organized labor should develop a
policy of increasing output," it was
stated. "The attitude of opposition
or indfiffererifce o proper standards
for production should be changed to
a frank and aggressive insistence of
such standards; there should be a
scientific examination of the basis
for wages; certain union rules
should be modified in regard to machine
operation, apprentices and
craft workers, distinctions which result
in restriction of output individu
al workers should realize their responsi'bilites
for waste resuting
from ill-health and disregard of
safety measures."
Declaring that the annual economic
loss in the country through preventable
diseases and death amounted
to $3,000,000,000 the report
urged a more general use of safety
methods already perfected. It was
asserted that 75 per cent of the
deaths and serious accidents in in
dustry could be thus prevented.
In regard to the'ntimber of days
lost ,the report said: ''Forty two million
persons lost 350,000,000 days
from dHnes and disease and n on-industrial
accidents annually; fprty
two per cent of the waste of illhealth,
is preventable; in 1919 tihere
were 300,000,000 industrial accidents
resutling in an economic loss
to the country of about $853,000,000;
industrial accidents are^ caused
by the carelessness of the workmen
and a lack of ordinary safeguards."
Plant idleness came In for its
share of the blame for waste. In the
printing industry alone the report
said, an investment of (more than
$100,000,000 in stocks of paper car
ried to meet trade requirements
could be cut in half through standardization
in the brands of paper.
The building industry wm said to
he about sxty percent efficient. In
the shoe industry the waste is% put
on about 35 per cent. The average
plant in the metal trades group is
from 25 -per cent to 30 per-cent, behind
the best plant in output per
employee.
In the ready made clothing industry
the report said, it should be relative
ly easy to save three quarters of a
million dollars a day?an increase
of forty percent in efifectiveess. The,
value of the output in this industry
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Between the revolutionists who
question whench we came and the
theologians who question whither we
are going, we still have the satisfaction
of knowing that/we are here.
These were the opening words of
a noted lecture, delivered by the Rev.
Dr. Talmadge, on evoluton. All of us
lenow "we are here," but for what
purpose? If, as Dr. Talmadge asserted,
there is "satisfaction" in the
knowledge %f our existence "it must
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purpose. Every tree and plant
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las its place and purpose, can it be
ess true of man, the final and great.
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ind "all that therein is?"
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knowledge by which we shall know
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>y,which~we are here," and assurance j
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usly?but how seldom read, at '
east, by how few people? Inquiry I
tras made of a* clergyman, who has I
xceptional opportunity for observa- J
ion, extending over many years, a^ |
ppr0::imately estimat'ng, 1 '
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wer was: "Five t>~le
reaH - . ? cent" of the peo. I
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jf times, during years extending over
the centuries, has been declared the
Best Book ever written.
A recent secular writer has declar.
ed that the Bible has exerted a wonderful
"induerice ovdr the lives and
minds of Wen," that "it ie the book
that has hpld together the fabric of
Western civilization;" that it "has
been the handb&ok of life to countless
millions t>f men and women; that
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: the need to. return thereto. Why not "
with reference to living, also, urge
return to "the faith of the fathers" h
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'ment and civics. And well we/ may, v>
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s virtue? Or, has the divine com- ?
land, delivered away back in the E
ays of Mount Sinai, has the divine n
ommand: "Thou shalt not steal,"
ea;;ed to mean what it says? Shall it p
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e controversial, the Bible is such an 0
bundant store of wisdom, of direc- ^
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nd use that which it so freely pro. *
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ho live by its precepts. And who ^
iat -has learned from the Book how
x. live has not at the same time
;arned how to die? Have not the r
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POLES AND GERMANS KILLED
Annaberg, Slesia, May 31.?Fifty
5oles and 16 Germans were killed
md a total .of about 175 ,were
vounded when Polish insurgents atempted
today to take Annaberg,
ifter a brief shelling by small field
ieces. >
The Poles were repulsed and fled
o Kalmow, whither the Germans
mrsued, and drove them out.
Seven hundred rebels marched on
Vniirberg and engaged the German
ion of 300 with rifles and mahi-D-e
guns. The Germans replied
vfoh steady valleys for two hour?
ird then counter attacked.
The fighting became hand to land,
rifles being clubbed and gremdes
and knives, brought into ac *
ion. After an hour of street fightng
the Poles- broke and fled, leavng
their dead and wounded in the
streets.
The town of -West Stockbridge, - ;"
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Vlass., is so healthful *that no phyisi:ian
can be induced to settle ther*
rhe Selectmen are raising a special
jurse for a physician who will agree
;o live in the town.
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