Motion Study
A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman

74 MOTION STUDY The loss due to the present classification of the trades alone is probably more than sufficient to pension, under full pay, one-half of the workers of the country; is cer- tainly enough to enable all of the women and children in the trades to remain out of the trades and be paid at their regular wages. While such action is not even recommended, the illus- tration is used to emphasize the enormous waste going on daily and yearly. That we go on year after year submitting to this waste because our present trades are handled in accordance with ancient conditions entirely out of place in our pres- ent civilization, is no longer necessary and without excuse. Let the government call its scientific managerial experts together and make a test of one trade, reclassify it, and publish the data. The object lesson thus presented will cause to be taken the necessary further steps to remedy the present system of handling the trades. The workers will each be able to earn higher wages when the unions see that they are benefited, and the labor interests will cooperate. The cost of living will be reduced as by no other means, and all this by scientifically reclassifying the trades! Direction In most cases, the direction of a motion that is most economical is the one that utilizes gravitation the most. Oftentimes delivering material to a high-priced work-