SAFETY AND PRODUCTION
Per cent
increase
Cement
Bbls. per $1 of wages .....
Manufactured Ice
Tons per $100 of wages ...
Cast-iron Pipe
Tons per $100 of wages ...
Fertilizer Mig,
Tons per $100 of wages ... 32.48 46.12 42.0
also by the following figures taken from the January, 1927, issue of
the Monthly Labor Review of the United States Bureau of Labor
Statistics :
IQ1Q
1023
2.79 13.9
24.4
Per cent in-
crease in
production
per man-hour
for 1925 over
1914
211
172
“3
I
”
Rubber tires ........
Automobiles ...............
Petroleum refining ..........
Cement manufacturing ..
Steel works ........
Flour milling .........
Paper and pulp ..........
Cane-sugar refining ......... .......
Slaughtering and meat packing .........
Leather tanning .....
Boots and shoes ...
The tollowing figures compiled by the United States Department of
Commerce for all industries show changes between 1919 and 1925
as follows:
[ncrease in physical volume of products ... 28.6 per cent
Increase in primary horse-power ............... ......... 21.8 “
Decrease in number of persons engaged ........... ....... 86 ie
[ncrease in production per person engaged ................. 40.7 “
Increase in primary horse-power per person engaged......... 33.3 “
Data indicating the same general facts have been compiled by the
National Industrial Conference Board.
This increased efficiency of production has been secured mainly
through organization, standardization, mechanization, and better rela-
sions between labor and management. It will be recognized how thor-
oughly characteristic of American industry of the present day these
four conditions are, namely: (1) industrial organization and manage-
ment on a large scale, (2) a thoroughgoing standardization of products
and processes, making possible mass production, (3) the replacement
of man-power by automatic machinery. The extent to which mechani-