The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-03

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A Lecture to Employers
Mr.. Employer: You say good employees competent,
SAFE able conscientious Did it ever occur to
You that good EMPLOYERS competent, fair, courteous
and apprecatve may also be scarce? Why can you get
who will do your work properly! You say it is the
fault of the people who work. But they say it is YOUR
fault Perhaps both of you telling the truth.
Certain it is that most of the advice you in print is
directed to the employees They warned that they
must be honest vgan and sober They must make their
employers business their They must make them
selves valuable the boss cannot get along without them
They told that careessness and incompetence will lose
them their jobs Their monitors tell them they ought not
to work with eye the clock ready to drop their work
the instant time is up. BUT WHO ADVISES THE
EMPLOYER AS TO HIS DUTIES?
It is said there million out of work and the
employer says that because it is difficult to find the
who fits the job May it not be that mst bosses have
something to do with the problem? Everywhere,
told is posted the advertisement Wanted, man. EN-
PLOYERS ARE CASING EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYEES
ARE CHASING FOR EMPLOYERS. The trouble, say
the essays is that workers do not up the oppor
tunity they neither fitted for their tasks take de
light in doing them; they only to draw their wages
But what of the employer who is not fitted for IS task
who not competent to his workers, who lacks in
all the essentials of leadership of men?
Did you stop to think Mr. Employer, that your
empoye may be careful in choosing director of his la
bors as you i'll finding oborer? Do you realize that
He wants decent, honest courteous boss much
that is courteous honest and decent? And he
is entitled to that sort Of employer, if he find him
His choice, however is not wide and free yours 1t
ought to be-
There employers for instance, who utterly fail to
appreciate the people who work for them. Or if they do
appreciate honest effort fail to say at will do
you know, to praise him. He might get the swell head
AT the time if the employee has the slightest fault he
hears end Of the fault finding criticism may
be- rdicule. That kind of employer of labor DOES NOT
DESERVE GOOD SERVICE And he seldom gets it.
There other directors of work who do the
people who under them They play the spy or get 9th
to do Every indication displays dstrust They
go about suspicious and watchfu They only dispo
stion of the workers to sir their abors This sort of
manager never gets cooperation He doesn't get
sect There secret between the head of the house
and the rank and file He is not successful in holding his
helpers because THE SUCCESSFUL MANAGER
KNOWS A GOOD MAN WHEN HE SEES HIM.
And there is the boss who swears at his helpers. Do
you think this sort of is found only the
ditch workers? YOU ARE MISTAKEN! Many a
man supposed to be decent profanity his employees
And not every will stand for that of thing. If the
empoye endures it, it is because he must. OF coarser
type still is the who drinks to He is
impose upon his people.
OF another type is the fussy employer. He trust
anyone to do things for him. He must always interfere
Every slightest detail must have his bossy oversight He
breaks into the plans of his workers. He puts them out of
touch. Instead Of giving them general directions and
trusting in the intelligence of his employees he them
out by constantly breaking in. The employer who does
this way land there lot of hem) has business to
be over his betters.
Another sort of employer the who looks for cheap
He does not to know that it is the ambitious
man who is the efficient man. A CHEAP MAN DOES
CHEAP WORK. He is dear at any price In reality he is
not man, but machine He will stand almost any sort