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you were going to get come payday. This completely threw off their basis of reckoning and they weren't able to work it out at all. Carefully explained to me by accountants later, as it was to some of the leaders of the men, it was obvious that the system was fair. There had been no intention of cheating the men, nor were they going to lose any wages in the long run - that is, provided they kept their rate of production up. If the rate of production of each man did not reach a certain point which had been determined as his proper point, well then he fell down below some line and got less. So he could never tell what he was going to get. It was a very complicated system.

This created great resentment. The men, seeing the notice posted, spent all the rest of the afternoon, I am told, figuring and trying to study out and puzzle out what they were going to get. One after another got more and more bewildered trying to figure it out with a blunt lead pencil on the back of an envelope. They were all in a dither. They finally went to the foreman. The foreman told them that it had him beat, and he couldn't make it out at all. This happened on every floor. I heard this story so many times that I can see it exactly. It happened on every floor in every department of every