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 POSSIBILITIES OF THE PRESENT INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM 735

committee, some sixteen in number. The selling division, not amenable to such control, is under the supervision of office managers and traveling auditors.

HOOL I <>R AGENTS

The general truth that development consists in the process

of division and reunion, of d iff en ntiation and correlation, is

well illustrated in this factory or^ani/ation. For this minute

subdivision of labor and of authority has not resulted in a

tiveness, or. what is more probable, a divergence

of inter. : and employe; but rat her t he i e\ ei se.

The president ot the eumpanv remarked : " The employers of large numbers of men are apt t> i^iou apart horn them, t'nder our new System they -r..\\ together, and instead ol stuke^ \\ e have eonfc-ren . Undrr this s\Mein of organization the

humblest employe' is brought int< direet eontaet with the administrate e authorities, and at the same time is not subject to