News Given Over Wireless li More Than Rickshaw Coolie Jailed For Old Theft A public rickshaw coolie thought that he had safely 60 Languages Has Linguists Baffled mittee, which between 1915 and 1917 investigated the effects of hours of work upon output; upon accident incidence; upon sickness absence d lost time in munition factories. committee showed clearly thet overlong working hours may be not only harmful. but uneconomical: in other words, that shortening of hou y actually bring about increased production."
Since that time the board had been concerned to show, by e: the laboratory and obs, the factory, what conditions of wor: are likely to be detrimental to health and efficiency, and what improvements in those conditions could best be made. They were able to demonstrate the beneficial effect of introducing scientifically planned r ste pauses.
"If in factories today w is being done in ignorance of the physiological laws which govern human effort, it will now ly take fewer weeks than it did months in the last War for the fact to be discovered.....It is to be hoped that the knowledge gained by the board investigations will of practical in the prevention of urine:
economical mental and n in war-time industry."
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