Show GREAT GRET MICHIGAN MINE SHORT HORT OF MH ME MEOne One need not search beyond the present pres ent eat labor Jabor problem at Lake to find a reason for tor tho decline In cop copper per production of ot Calumet Hecla am and andIs its Is subsidiaries in August Is a story ston from Boston Doston Total output of ot pounds showed a a. decline of ot pounds from tho the previous month ant and compared with wih the peak month March 1917 of ot poun pounds s. s registered a decline of ot over pounds 01 or or nearly 30 per cent cont Lake Lale copper companies aro watching with wih keen Interest results of ot the can canvass cnn can sass ass of at the department of ot labor at the instance of ot the tho ordnance depart department ment meat is sending sendIng- questionnaires to tho the various companies with a view Jew of ot de dc determining how ba badly l they have ha Leon beon hit as r regards gards labor This will fur furnish furnish i nish authorities with wih exact figures oi ot of loss of ot manpower and present condition condi condl tion ton of ot workers at Lako Lake Superior j j Calumet Hecla and Its Is subsidiaries aro are short of ot 1000 tod today Y Prospects of ot an nn early remedy for this situation are decidedly dim tho the coTh- coTh panics are doing every everything thinS thinS' to keep the men they have havo Most of ot the present pros pros- ent workers are arc the tho old timers who aro are wedded to the Industry who have h. h I I. I HI H. H p. p up It v gru and feel reel It would bo desertion to quIts quit now even for tor higher wages ages elsewhere Calumets Calumet's pound cost in July was 22 2 cents Including a n charge of ot 5 cents for depreciation and depletion Deducting De De' Deducting tJ De-tJ ducting this charge off oC and the tho company's company's com com- com J pany's pans actual production cost was waa 1111 cents against 13 cents and 1168 cents J JI Jn in I 1917 and 1916 respectively j t From tho the standpoint of at labor Jabor shortage shortage short short- t tage age Isle Is I perhaps In more mor 1 fortunate position Jon than many of ot the others It has been Installing electric for over o er two years cr delivery delhery could be hn had has built buit now new miners' miners dry houses and perfected mode mod mod mod-em cm working c conditions all an of which I Is ar conducive to more moro efficiency among among th the themen men with wih a consequent desire to JIn J in Jt its employ Output last month of pounds toll tell off oc but poun pounds s from Jul July i Ahmeek was particularly backward OCI last month Its Is output of ot O pounds being pounds less les than thanIn l lIn In July Of Ot this company It might be beJ said al that operations for tor some Bomo weeks past havo have been seriously retarded bytho by bi tho the effects of ot the fire In Its Is No 4 shaft At present however this has haa been entirely cleaned out and shipments ship ments at the rate rato of ot tons of ot rock a week are going forward forward about about normal |