Leon P. Alford

After another two years as shop foreman, he found employ as production superintendent at the United Shoe Machinery Corporation in 1899 in Boston.

[7] The company employed 9,000 workers and in its best days supplied 85% of all shoemaking machines in the United States.

[8] In 1902 Alford got promoted to mechanical engineer, and invented and patented some new constructions for the United Shoe Machinery Corporation.

From 1935 to 1937 he joined the Federal Communications Commission, where he was assistant engineer-in-charge of the manufacturing costs unit.

Dodge had won much respect and trust from the workers because of arrangements and incentives he offered so that they would accept Taylor's changes.

[1] Later in 1912, Alford sat on the ASME committee that considered whether or not to publish Taylor's book, The Principles of Scientific Management.

Because the committee's report was ambivalent about the merits of Scientific Management, the ASME declined to publish Taylor's book.