Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-04-27 | Page 16 | Zinc Situation and some Suggested Remedy Measured in Wages and Price Scale

ZINC SITUATION AND SOME SUGGESTED REMEDY MEASURES IN N WAGES WAGES' AND PRICE SCALE Some interesting statistics on th f r situation have been compiled b by hr zinc ha e een W W. F. F a mining engineer of I h he shows hOWS the Galena Ill n I comparative comparative- raises In wa wages e and materials ma- ma since 1 14 H Some of or those thOe corn corn- com I will vilI compare in many ways I with wih the results of zinc mining In I over the same ame period Jeriod The Tho article says I that the tho following Is a a table of wage wao rates ratos in Wisconsin In 1 1311 i 1 and in 1 1013 1918 18 I W WaH KM Wares Wares' rul Inc 1911 lOIS 1518 P Pet t t. Occupation n. n 11 Drill men A. A 11 52 77 Sh ler contract ct pr per r car AT r M 1 12 32 M 60 f I day isy rn ay JJ work ork S i 7 75 hon Trammer a i. i O C 7 75 Truck men 22 2 i. i 40 O 61 51 Tuck Hoist Hoit m taCo men n 2 40 4 1 men 30 1 4 1 Mill O 3 75 Ordinary mi 1 hands O n 61 51 t hour NIn hour No great real error is Involved In taking the aera average o of or these Increases to betho be bethe tile the increase in the tho co cost t of or labor al although although al- al these occupations occupations though for lor mine accuracy patons should be prorated in th the total payroll and the tho average Increase thus obtained A somewhat lon long calculation tion based on this showed tho the average 0 increase of oC wages to be 57 Ii 7 per cent cent- cent Next com comes 8 a table showing the ratio rato of or increase in tho cost of ot both labor and other commodities na Hallo U 0 0 of f fHIl I 1914 1918 In Increase rense HIl Salary 1 7 Powder 73 03 I Supplies 11 Power 28 13 1325 Pour Jour lo Sourer 11 The Tho author suggested four Cour possible sources of or relief reHer First First First-A A reduction In unit costs to I figures 9 through reduction in prewar tSU I wages and prices I Second A nd-A nd A rise In price received for concentrates that will wi compensate for creased It-creased costs Third An Third An In Increase in tn the tho efficiency Y of oC mining methods which will wil offset tho the Increased wages to labor b by yielding yield yield- Ir ing a larger tonnage teenage per man and Fourth Fourth To To raise tho grade Erade of or ore 1 by J mining richer ground round thus increasing the tho mill mil cl recovery at tho thio expense of the of or making mak mak- no m and so lowering the cost lag ing concentrates In lit a final of each of or these of or each means Mr r. r disposes soh solved d s and without having ng lh the problem to any my great reat degree The first means that means that of or cutting and abandoned as unwise wages wages wages-is Is practically impossible during the the the-pres- period of industrial unrest I In III Price Slow Sinn The Thc second method too too Is little better better bet bet- ter as It I would bo ho ver very unlikely that be secured an any rise in prices could for tor many months because of ot tho the condition con con- diLlon dlton of th the tho market Considering the third point Mr fr here seems to find tho greatest greatest great great- est cst hope although tho the Increased wage show any n in increase increase In in- failed to scale has so o far Car tonnage produced pro crease In the average crase a of or orthe per nan A rigid application the principles of or efficiency however as 38 far as ns might be he possible would V vc vezy l likely show a saying and Increased returns Especially Is this so gO of or the 1 cHow lellow eoW Pine Pin mining district where the ore alu values s aro are high as a rule but here the mining is principally of or a primitive typo and typo and primitive primitvo mining io Ia expensive mining The fourth means menns that thal of oe mining richer ground has been adopted In Inmany Inmany inmany many instances s. s but is not not alwa always practicable i J