El error, por supuesto, era lógico en personas preocupadas por el paralelogramo de fuerzas. Otro caso aporta el comentario necesario e indica una línea de experimentación más esperanzadora.
“There was in operation for some years at the leper colony off the Philippine Islands a system of weekly gratuities to each man, woman, and child confined to the island colony. From the women and children no accounting for the subsidy was required. But from the men a certain amount of manual labour about the island was exacted upon penalty of having the pocket-money withheld. From the administrative point of view this had seemed an easy solution for the difficult problem of getting adequate labour in an isolated place inhabited largely by the victims of a dread disease. But the men patients took vigorous exception to this form of compulsory labour, and finally made complaint about it to the Philippine Government. An investigation into the unrest at the leper colony was instituted, and the Secretary of the Interior visited the island and heard all the complaints in person. As a result of his study the system of gratuities for the men was wiped out. And the necessary work on the island was paid for at an agreed rate which, it appeared later, was less than the previous gratuity. Nevertheless, the men found the new system preferable; there was no more complaint, the necessary work was done; the men who were inclined to work received their stipends and the others not. But from that day to the present trouble on this score has been unheard of.”2
Más sistemáticas fueron las investigaciones realizadas en este país bajo el Ministerio de Municiones. En el Informe provisional de 1917 del Comité de Salud de los Trabajadores de las Municiones encontramos la siguiente referencia a los incentivos en la industria:
«Es fundamental que el sistema salarial sea equitativo y fácil de entender para los trabajadores. Las pruebas recabadas no dejan lugar a dudas de que un sistema salarial cuyo funcionamiento no pueda ser