INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY.
A SINISTER TRINITY. (To the Editor.) As an industrial worker I view with some misgivings the introduction of the Industrial Efficiency Bill. Applying standards, co-ordina-tion and science to industry are fme-soundin<* but rather meaningless phrases to the general'public, but to one who has an intimate and very recent experience of English and American super-efficient industrial factories they form a most sinister trinity. The whole trend and ultimate effect' of industrial efficiency is to get the utmost effort out of the individual by simplifying the process to mere routine, speeding up the operation and making a scientific study of how to make the fallible human animal as efficient as the machine. I would ask: Why train skilled men for an industry that will have no use for thein? Can the unemployed he reabsorbed into industry by increasing the output of those alrsady employed? Why pay lip service to freedom and endeavour to make the individual a slave of the _ machine ? Perhaps the Minister of Industries and Commerce can answer these questions. MACHINIST.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 233, 1 October 1936, Page 6
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