The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-09-09
CIGARETTE SMOKERS
By GILBERT HUBBARD.

Cigarette smokers are often active,
alert, competent men.
They are quick to see an opportunity,
ready to take advantage of it, and are
often generous, appreciative, sympath-
etc, kind.
But when you see such kind 2he is
in his prime, at his best; his star is
at zenith, not on the horizone or at
nadir.
Never again will he be as much of
a man as he is now.
His future lies behind.
He is not growing into a better man.
He is not in the line of evolution.
If you want a man who will train
on, flee the cigarettist as you would a
pestilence.
He will surely disappoint you.
And the better and brighter your
young man, the faster will be his
descent to the Avernus.
AS a. close observer of men and an
employer of labor for over Is years, I
give you this: Never advance the pay
of cigarette smoker-never promote
him-never depend upon him to carry
a wad to Gomez, unless you do not
care for Gomez and are willing to lose
the wad.
say I do not promise the Cigarette
smoker, for the time will surely come,
and shortly, when you will rue the
hour you ever placed him in position
where he can plague you by doing
that which he ought not and by leav-
ing undone those things that should
be done. .5-s'~
IF you have cigarettes on your pay
roll who will do good works,do not
discharge them. Simply keep them as
long as they are of profit to you, and
when you find they become a care
gently lay them of, and say you will
send for them when you need them.
And then never send for them.
To prevent your own piece of mind
YOU cannot afford. to put man In
position where you will have to humuli-
ate yourself by asking him to step
down and out.
To reduce a workers pay is very
embarrassing thing for two parties
the man and yourself. 1t means that
YOU have been mistaken in your judg-
ment. and the man always considers
himself bitterly wronged. Usually, for
YOU, his usefulness is gone, his en-
thusiasm vanished.
He can't explain the matter to his
wife and relatives and so he damns
YOU and they do, too, and soon they
grow to believe in their hand made
villifications.
Therefore, as general proposition,
it is better to eliminate apsoiutely
person whom you somewhat IRONICALLY
call your helper, than to reduce his
pay and curtail his power.
Fire him and then hire hime back IN
a month, when he has had time to
cool; If you desire. But to keep him
on out of kindness is a mistaken kind
ness that pays penalty.
However, there may be exceptions.
I once knew foreman who had, at
times, the very bad habit of making
things uncomfortable for his best men.
If one forged ahead and particularly
well, he got the foreman's displeasure
Just as surely as a school teachers Of
fetal life is cut short If she sets her
colleagues too warm to a pace-a thing
by the way that is seldom done.
And so it happened that workmen re-
manned at the shop all night repairing
machinery. without being told, land
thereby did he get the grand cal
down the next morning from the fore
man.
The mater accidently came to the
attention of the superintendent, and he
being a man of decision and bit of
philosopher as we'll. issued a cour'
order thet the enterprising employee
and the foreman should change places
Did the former foreman now take
the mental place and work under thu
orders Of a man who had worked under
him?
Aye, that is exactly what he did. HI
was big enough to take his medicine
He choked down his cholor, said not
word hut reported in blouse an<
overalls and went to work under thu
orders Of a man he had wronged.
He worked diligently, quietly AM
cheerfully. On the third day, thes
men, who had up to this time merel!
glanced at each other, met face t.
face. The foreman said to the forme
foreman: "Bill my pay has been raises
$50 q month, yours has been cut dow
the same amount. 4 see you are trying
to make It easy for me. and surely yo'
know am not going to make It har'
for, you've will divide our pay equal
ly," and he held out his hand. TIL
other mans eyes filled with tears.
Both had won. @ -tlss. =. Iii: =
The new man received the heart
support OF the old foreman. They work
ed toxetier a one man and then eac
doubled his lle for the company. u
The reduced Il man 4 net before 1. tina
shop an lot so1l IN OBJ dlence tina
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