Motion Study
A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman

PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF MOTION STUDY 97 The pay of the A and B classes should be considerably higher than is customary for bricklayers. The pay of the C, D, and E classes should be lower than is customary for bricklayers, but much higher than the pay of laborers. This classification will raise the pay of all five classes higher than they could ever obtain in the classes that they would ordinarily work in under the present system, yet the resulting cost of the labor on brickwork would be much less, and each class would be raised in its standing and educated for better work and higher wages. In the case of brickwork this new classification is a cry- ing necessity, as the cost of brickwork must be reduced to a point where it can compete with concrete. Im- provements in making, methods of mixing, transporting, and densifying concrete in the metal molds of to-day have put the entire brickwork proposition where it can be used for looks only, because for strength, imperviousness, quickness of construction, lack of union labor troubles, and low cost, brickwork cannot compete with concrete under present conditions. Having sub-classified the trades, the second step is to standardize them. And both classification and standardization demand motion study. The United States government has already spent mil- lions and used many of the best of minds on the subject of motion, study as applied to war; the motions of the sword, gun, and bayonet drill are wonderfully perfect from