THE FOREMAN Grant Maitland's business instincts and training were such as to forbid any trifling with loose management in any department of his plant.

He was, moreover, too just a man to allow any of his workmen to suffer for failures not their own.

His first step was to get at the facts.

His preliminary move was characteristic of him.

He sent for McNish.
"McNish," he said, "your figures I have examined.