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adjusting the time rate to them, also irritated them. That was a very complicated system. I looked at that myself and studied it. Studied it. That came about with no warning whatever. The managers and officers of the company had been diecussing this with the New York firm of efficiency experts and accountants for rome time. They finally decided to put it in. Everything was all worked out. The instructions were drawn up by this New York firm. Then the managers came back to their various shops in Akron and on a particular Thursday or Friday the notice was posted. They were going to be paid on Saturday according to this new schedule. So they were paid that way.

Then the men hit the ceiling. It created more resentment, more excitement, more anger than you can possibly imagine. Nobody knew what he was going to got. obody had been able to estimate his wages for that week. Under their old system, whatever it was and however awkward it might be, a man kept track of his work day by day, and usually within a few cents or a few dollars they could tell what they would be getting on a Saturday night. They could tell their wives as carly as Wednesday or Thursday whether they could safely lay out some money for the children's shces, or whatever it was. It was very inportant to have some idea of what