| Show SWALLOW BALLOW A FEW FACTS for a quarter of a century labor organization 5 have been fighting for a short wor work k dav and high pay on the promise to the public that such a policy would produce more per hour per man the public eventually believed the representations thus made by labor leaders leader and the 8 hour day lias has become almost universal in the united states with a wage scale of 1 an hour or better for practically any kind of skilled labor A summary of the results under the short hour high payday pay day has been a suii surprise and a disappointment instead of added incentive for work high pay and short hours houra have alpar apparently antly bred contempt of honest ond labor and pride in efferent workmanship the story atory la is the same the coun country try over inferior goods and decreased production per man power more money to spend and more I 1 time im a for loafing see seema as to have been a curse instead of a blessing to many workmen we are now facing a readjustment p chien is gyin going to od be a i leveler ot at many things the pro file industry and the he profiteer ng ing workman are going to be swept into the discard fhe public has cheerfully paid high wages for short houra hour but with falling labor pru pro duclon ibiza and ad inefficiency ney the public is bernine bei beg nine ining lo 10 revolt ut at holdup tac lac tic pe and to is gom going tu to demand a days work for a day daya pay five years ago the concern or IQ in that stood out against labor dictation faced severe criticism today tod because labor haa bus repeatedly refused to adhere to the bargains it harnad has made in it ita collective capacity the consuming public is 13 weary of paying the bills 1111 caused ad by b y the irre of 0 labor to ta jose keep p it its agro agreement ement our nation is facing a house short age of national proportions are high due to the cost coat of production but they comprise the cusi cst of building wages are high and hours are short but j this would not deter building if it were re not for the amir enormous amount but of bolen time that st boea in on every job by carpenters carp entera plumbers plasterers boasters p bricklayers etc while theoretically eallY labor cost has only in er clawd toed about loo per cent net actually nalls it is 11 as der cent higher than he before th war due to decreased effifie noy ncy and liln loafing fing on the job it is a well known fact that faw BW milla ills are closing allover all over theowest the cesi for or lack of orders A large saw mill aill at clear lake washington ha been compelled to close and has notified its ita men that when it starts agam again it will be on a materially different basis and one of the changes will probably be from an 8 hour to a 10 hour day carpenters art severely criticizing the manage ment meat while the mill management was wa discussing the necessity for th this I 1 v change a man who is buil building 8 large barn near mt vernon wash ington arrived at the lumber earn com darivs office and after listening to the conversation for a short abort lime said 1 I would like to tell you an something about these carpenters who are crying for an 8 hour day dav I 1 have 9 of them working on my new barn for which you van sold me the lumber and the way those fellow work I 1 la enough to drive a man crazy I 1 can state positively lively that I 1 have not at been able to catch the whole 9 of them at work at one time since they started on oa the job usually there them are not more than 5 6 working the balance of them will wid oa mi sharpening their tools or do doing g something else which should be done on their own time I 1 can state hone stiv that these men are not ds do livering on en an average 6 hours of work a day dav and they or are d demanding chir 1 25 for 8 hours wi work rk and that I 1 la what I 1 am paying them the mill manager said to the he calsar farmer if you came to the clear lake lumber company yard and we gave you feet of lumber for 1000 feet and charged ion for 1000 feet feel or if you went want tu to a store end and received two thirds of a yard of clot cloth hand and was charged fora for a yard or of you sold one of these same c carpenters a rp enters 10 sacks backs of potatoes and only delivered 7 in each case there wold be ft a row would there mill what is IB the dif difference feren between those carpenters delivering a short I 1 days work and delivering 7 sacks of potatoes in place of 10 or short thang changing ng in any manner the honest workman and ad the honest employer have got to pet get together and talk thew these things over or it will wiil not be long before the employer employer cannot employ and abid the workman rr will I 1 11 be on out t of a job b th of offenders ferd who bo th practice t stol stolk K on an the job ai a the they term doing less than a dav dava work fur for a day daya pay must be eliminated a or there will 11 b be a closing down of laii industry t e and industrial activity in ID this nation cation and ad a v c breaking up of high wage short hour day dav the foregoing are hard cold facts and ad we will have to swallow them and get used to the changed order of things whether we like it or not hot A good slogan to adopt woo would id be honest work for honest pay or no work for no pay E ex |
