The Work of the Worker.
The worker has two chief ways in which he can help in fatigue elimination. The first is to co-operate with the management in installing fatigue elimination methods and devices in the particular plant in which they are both interested. The second is to help to make fatigue elimination fashionable. This latter duty lies with no one but the worker himself. No new methods spread more quickly than the “fashion of work.” There is nothing of which a well run plant is more proud than the “way” it works, the work spirit. The whole idea must be that it is a disgrace to have causes of unnecessary fatigue existing. Overfatigue is a positive proof of inefficiency. There is no fear but that the workers will recognize these duties, and will perform them heartily and with good will, when they know that they are getting a square deal. It is right that they should make very sure that they are going to receive such treatment, and that fatigue study is not a new scheme for taking advantage of them, but they must be ready to listen to the proof and to accept it when they are convinced that it is true. Having accepted it, and thus made sure that they are safe in co-operating, the next step is to help actively in the good work.