Identifier: efficientman00west
Title: The efficient man
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: West, Thomas D. (Thomas Dyson), 1851-1915
Subjects: Success Employee motivation Industrial efficiency Personnel management
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Gardner Printing Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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largerand better , parks, skating rinks, bath-houses, anythingalong these lines as long as it will aiTord more pleasure,ease, and the more thinking to get something for nothing. A politician, for one example, who would take the standfor first giving us good, respectable paved streets, freeof volcanic eruptions, cesspools, and mud up to the axle inroadways in preference to an extension of parks, play-grounds, etc., would be considered as having lost hismind. While the above gives us one cause for somethingbeing radically wrong with our modern life, the authorfinds another condition requiring serious considerationthat very few have thought of and which is founded onthe fact that every recurrence of business booms showsthat it is more and more difficult to obtain common labor-ers to do the dirty and the hard work of life. When any country becomes so esthetic that is is com-pelled to look to other nations for men willing to workaround its barnyards, dig its sewers, handle its fuel, clean

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Fig. 10. A BREACH OF FATHER-SON CO-OPERATION sc.iKCiry Oh l.ihok 75 its streets and do other work reciiiiring- thousands in whichthey cannot always l)c lookin^ pretty, it is time eyeswere heing opened to perceive whither it is drifting. jMil-hons are not aware that during- the hoom of the. last halfof 1912 and spring of 1913 many improvements and enter-prises were checked and farming halted in the UnitedStates due to its scarcity of common laborers. Someplaces offered as high as 45 cents an hour for unskilledmen on common laboring work and were even then farfrom obtaining all they wanted. Is it any wonder thatour supercilious craze is sending costs of living sky-high?In the above connection be it known that while workwas being suspended and production suffering for thewant of both skilled and common labor, our employmentagencies were crowded with Know Littles and Do Noth-ings and intelligent youths seeking clerical work. Again,every fine day would find our streets and park roadw^aysgr

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