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the habit in Akron to pay the men on a kind of combination of time rate and piece rate. That had been done for a long time. Whatever the mothod was they were adjusted to it and had gotten used to it. This recomendation came to change the method of computing wages, and particularly weekly wages. They also decided not to pay everybody on the same day, but to stagger the pay days so that they didn't need as big a clerical staff. They do the same thing in the department stores now - bill their customers at different times throughout the month. Some custemers will get their bills on the lst, some on the 6th, some on the 12th and so on. That created great resentment among the customers when first instigated. I mention that to illustrate why the men in the factories became irritated when the same process of saving money on the clerical work was applied to them in a way so that they didn't get their wages up to the date on which they got the pay envelope. There was a lag. They would got their wages the next pay period, which I think was every two weeks. However, it wasn't the two week period that irritated them so much as it was the carryover. They never did know what they were going to get the next pay poriod. Also the method of estimating piece rates, and