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Deducted from employes' pay was "dead time"�time lost when they were moving from one part of the plant to another, when materials were delayed, when machines broke down.
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Deducted from the total of anti-machine votes, this leaves only thirty anti-machine votes for the remaining fifteen members of the delegation.
From Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 by Hichborn, Franklin