Show FEWER AND BETTER MEN IEN A MOSES in a recent issue of the outlook says 1 there is a yarn about the pen pennsylvania alvania state police probably true to the effect that a single trooper was isi snatched spat ched to a turbulent mining camp to quell a riot did they send only one trooper i exclaimed tho the towns mayor agart and panic stricken 1 you only got one riot ilot you was the bland answer and after all who rather have one trooper of that magnificent constabulary than a squad of ill drilled irregulars 7 1 very much the same thing applies in business slowly painfully slowly in some cases it seems large employers of labor are beginning to ap preci predate ate the tolly folly and extravagance of hiring recklessly and tiring firing want the conditions of the day or even hour dictate loyalty loy alty esprite I 1 de corps pride in th the e organization tO which they belong Is a quality most desirable 0 of cultivation among the workers and it goes without saying baying that the man who holds his job precariously from day to day can have but little interest in his ste stewardship w ard ship during all the period ol of depression ot of the last eight months no more suggestive features has been brought to light than the increase in many instances of average pay per man despite the widespread condition on d t 0 n 0 ot f u unemployment emp OY in ent and the universal general deduction ol of pay per employed averaging ave ragin 9 64 6 4 per cent over the he whole country on may alay the associated press reported that plants employing 1 last year were operating 5 with wt 2 25 5 per cent less men this year or to give the exact figures plants which employed workers on april 1 1920 were usi using n g but workers a year later total i pay rolls had dropped in the same i 4 period from to 36 1 th j I 1 of 0 the industries butter ing most heavily were tere rubber mani I 1 4 factories with a drop of 0 64 per cent i 1 building with a tailing falling oft off of 60 pir per 5 cent the auto automobile mobil e industry 55 elj per cent and iron and steel prodoc produce ers per cent yet notwithstanding ding this heavel falling away in industrial activities 11 certain sections notably the federal federal reserve districts of dallas and fra francisco hudsco showed an actual increase in wages per man while in the nell york k district despite a decrease ilni 4 employment of per cent there was iwas an increase infinitesimal true tru but an increase neve nevertheless rth eless ot 0 one halt half of one per cent in the pay the men who were actually working which means to plagiarize from the demand attributed to dr walter r H page for fewer and better books to fewer and better men |