A HISTORY OF EDISON'S WEST ORANGE LABORATORY 1887-1931

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The services the laboratory were more vigorously marketed and the machine shops did more routine work .XIII- 3 Little had been done reduce the payroll and 1921 drastic steps were taken. 1924 Edison personally removed him from office. Every division was ordered cut back its men, including the West Orange laboratory. Edison's already low view labor deteriorated through the period inflation and labor strife during the War. told Mambert 1919: "Wages are certainly with more loafing than ever.. Mambert survived the crisis 1921 but could not maintain his powerful position much longer. Charles Edison recalled the pain felt the decimation of O the management organization had assembled and perfected., was Q only good enough $60 week clerk.Only remedy is automatic machinery and less men. The man who had done much modernize the administration was scorned Edison who vindictively asserted that Mambert, once vice president TAE Inc.. Administrative positions were abolished merged into others and the work departments amalgamated. Edison told Mambert that this kind directive was never carried out and went on rampage through the Works, firing men right and left, C including John Constable, chief engineer the lab." After Edison's great purges n of 1920/21, was estimated that less than 2000 remained. An economy program was administered those who remained in the West Orange labor force. had no sympathy for the working man who wanted his wages keep pace with inflation