The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-09
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their working time from So to IS
hours without change OF pay, and a
recent legislature reduced the hours
for tie women and children in those
mills 10 81 hours weekly. This reQuir.
ed shutting down the mills two hours
weekly, because they we're so bal
anced that the men could not work
in some departments unless the wo-
men worked in others. The differ
ehce in time was two fifty-sixths, q
fraction less than per cent, and the
mills gave notice-observe not all
mills upon whom this bore, but some
of them; those in this one city-they
gave notice, I say, that this exact
amount must be deducted from the
wages of their people. Those wages
were already far below the average
American wage. A rate of $3.50
weekly would represent the average
womans earnings before the cut was
made. A strike ensued, and by that
strike has been lost MANIFOLD years
difference in wage. Apart from this
money loss there has come with 1t
the iii will and distrust of thousands
of operatives; and now, after the dis.
trust has been gained and the loss
has been incurred, the mills concede
an advanced wage scale, about one
half larger than the cut which they
made at first, so that by their own
action they have shown that. despite
the money loss from weeks of idle.
ness, they can pay an advance, and
that the former deduction was made,
to say the least, In ignorance, for II
made with knowledge 1t approached
the criminal. ~-s-s
II do not mean in the faintest way
to approve the excuses of the strik.
ers any more than mean to approve
the excuses, so far as they may have
existed. on the part Of the authorI-
ties. I simply mean to detach these
excuses on either part and to con-
slider the fundamentals of manage
ment and their results. The mills
are now paying more wages than be-
fore the strike and paying them to a
force resentful Of injustice, for the
most ignorant man knows that IL the
mill can advance his wages per cent
to-day, after the loss they have SUI
fered, the original cut of less than
per cent was a shameful thing. /
trust it will not be understood that
these cases are mentioned as imply
ing in the faintest way that in this
enlightened community such things
occur, but of late and with just cause
there has been universal outcry
against the excuses to which some
men claiming to represent labor have
gone, end there is certain danger
that injustice may be done as re.
suit of this righteous wrath. Crime 70
horrible and always to be condemned
and murder is not to be condemned, but
there are crimes against human ma
ture that are not within the scope CT
the statute law, and the revolt of hui
man nature against them has as
sound a basis as our proper cutlery
against the more overt criminal act.
II greed kills through sweating and
child labor, it Is not less murderous,
only less rapid and less merciful than
he who stabs to slay. With the men
who enter our factories enters the
greatest force in all production.
mean the responsiveness of those
men to leadership. They WORK, in
deed, because they must needs earn
their bread. and 1t is needful that
supervision should be closely exer.
cised for manifest reasons; but
neither the need for bread nor the
closest supervision will draw out In,
best that the workman has to give
That can only be done by the right
eous adjustment Of wage to product
by the absence alike of injustice and
of charity, by the opening of the door
OF opportunity, by the absence OF
driving and the presence of leading
by the selection of the man for the
task and the adjustment of the task
to he man, by the instructions of the
man In his task or, II untitled for it
then in some other task for which ks
is more fitted. by the spirit of candol
and frankness between the employer
and man, by the willingness to heei
and wait, by the closest possible
touch practicable in great factories
between the management and til;
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