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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n
or twice only I have heard the question raised whether Mr. Tattle's
remarkable hold on the confidence and affection of the labor world
in New England were not due to a policy of " giving them everything
they wanted." Nothing of the kind. Labor costs did not range
appreciably higher on the Boston and Maine than on other railroad
systems properly comparable with it; from the standpoint of loyal
and faithful service in return for the expenditure, they were
probably the lowest in New England. Mr. Tuttle was perhaps as
hard-headed and shrewd a business man as the Yankee stock ever
produced?with a difference. Always he was the man first, the
manager afterwards. It is precisely this difference, long held in
low esteem of miscalled " practical men," that is coming into
belated recognition these latter days as comprising very nearly the
whole distinction between success and failure in modern big-scale
corporation management. It has been a chief element in the business
folly of many generations to visualize the logical type of
industrial captain as a purely executive machine in his office, as
a man and citizen only in his home and clubs. To spend ten minutes
with Mr. Tuttle at his desk in the North Station, over a critical
labor complication, or an evening hour as a guest in his library,
wasto hold conversation with one and the same essential man. It is
a type of many possibilities, but incapable of turning one face to
the business world, another to the social and another to civic
obligation. Grant every demand coming up from the huge complex of
twenty- five thousand workingmen he could not. Secure to every man
a fair hearing he could and did, with a right of appeal extending
if need be through to the top. By no means did this mean that
every, or indeed more than a scattered few,...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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