Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

THE EFFECT UPON THE WORKERS 209 the worker as well as the observer. The pictures of the micromotion films are projected at the nor- mal speed of the moving picture. They are also examined one at a time. The chronocyclegraphs in three dimensions are shown through the stereo- scope, on the screen, by means of the wire motion models to the workers at the foremen’s and work- ers’ meetings and are there discussed. All the traditional knowledge is literally collected, meas- ured, sorted, tagged and labelled. These data, to- gether with indisputable measuring methods is presented before those possessing the greatest craft skill of the old methods, and who can quick- est actually learn the new knowledge and put it to use. The new knowledge is of no use to the employer without the co-operation of the worker. This fact puts the relations between the worker and his employer on a new basis. They must co-operate, or both pay an awful price. These new methods have demonstrated that there is so much to learn that the employer cannot afford to put on and lay off his employes in proportion to the receipt of orders. He must solve the prob- lem of steady employment. He cannot afford to let his specially trained men “ get aw ay. This