Bingham News | 1923-02-17 | Page 8 | Example of Wasted Labor

EXAMPLE OF WASTED LABOR One Philadelphia Shop Employs Sixty-Eight Sixty-Eight Girls to Pack a One-Pound Box of Candy. Slxty-flght girls In a Philadelphia enndy factory are needed to pack a one-pound box of candy, writes "Gl-rard" "Gl-rard" In the Philadelphia Inquirer. I saw the automatic stokers in an electric plant attended by two men Are the boilers under the engines of 90,000 horse power. There you behold a contrast of labor la-bor and result. In one case, to meet the fancies of confection eaters, ell that immense labor la-bor Is employed to put individual pieces of candy In a box. In the other Instance, machines, backed by a few millions, of capital Invested In other machines, can generate electric power sufficient to turn 10,000 wheels over a distance of scores of miles. At other places you may see capital pick up a freight car and dump Its contents con-tents Into a Rhop as you would put a spoonful of sugiir in your coffee. Lucky that somebody has money to hire such hlg machines to do our work. Otherwise you would be paying treble for what you get.