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Apparently in discussing things, they decided that they had a great many old-fashioned mothods, that they were not in a position to watch their costs closely enough, that they did not have a sufficient control on coets of various types of oporations, labor coste of various parts of their work, and that a study of their operations from the point of view of efficiency - not only the efficiency of their accounting process, their billing process and ther wage adjustments - things could be improved.

They got together and employed a firm of accountants and industrial consultants in New York City to make a study and give them a report. They did go out there. I don't know how long they stayed there. The workmen weren't very much aware that shis was going on. They knew that somebody had been around questioning them at the bench about when they did such and such, or how they did this and that, and other time and motion studies, comparative studies. But they didn't pay any attention to it.

As a result of this study there came a recommendation to the companies to change their method of estimating pay on the basis of a variety of piece rates. It had been





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