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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt:...is delegated to take him to the department, and the foreman must record on the employment pass the date the man started to work, his pay-roll number, the rate per hour if he works on an hourly rate. This is promptly returned to the employment department, so that the record of the transaction may be complete and the job checked off as filled. In its course this pass goes through a substation of the employment department, where the pay rolls are printed by the addressograph methods, and as the slips pass through the names are set up on the addressograph, together with the pay roll number and the rate. No other names are put on the pay roll except the names on these employment passes. Thus we are assured that no names appear on the pay rolls without the sanction and direction of the employment department. Once established, this rate on the pay roll is not changed, or subject to change, except by an " increase in rate " blank, which is signed by the foreman and countersigned by some higher executive, usually the superintendent in charge of the department. Transfers on the pay roll are furnished by a simple form, and changes from one job to another are recorded on the same form. The name remains in the addressograph file and is printed on the pay roll until the employment department receives notice that the hand has finished work in that department. This notice comes to the employment department in a majority of cases by the hand of the employee himself when he leaves the works. It is in the form of a coupon, which is attached to his time bill or pay slip, and when the notice of leaving has been detached his end of the time bill is approved to show that the notice has been received. The paymaster will not pay the money called for unless the bill bears...