Practical Track Work: Second Edition (Classic Reprint) - Kenneth L. Van Auken

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Exclusive Agencies - If the object of a labor agency were only to obtain laborers, then the charge should be small and the foreman should be given the privilege of hiring good men wherever he finds them. When orders are given that all laborers must be obtained through one agency, it appears that the securing of labor ers is secondary to the securing of fees. This results in enriching the labor agent and his organization at the ex pense of the company.

It is a bad system which prevents a foreman from hiring men whom he knows to be good track laborers. An experienced foreman is always acquainted with laborers of exceptional ability whose services he can obtain; men whose qualifications and limitations he is familiar with. The work of organizing a gang is greatly facilitated and the amount of work which can be accomplished is greatly increased when there are a number of such laborers, on whom the foreman is sure he can depend.

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