The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-14
ANACONDA At PEACE !
WITH ALL MANKIND
Earns Much Money, Makes
Large Expenditures and
Treats Men Fairly. q
ACCIDENTS VERY FEW
Carelessness Responsible fos
Most That Occur, as Com.
pany Is Careful.
ACCIDENTS VERY FEW
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune
BUTTE. Mont, Dec, 1s.-Backed bv|
the resources Of an empire the Ana
conda Copper Mining company, a splen-'
didly equipped and perfectly adjusted
industrial machine, is year after year'
that copper mining is &
business sound and stable, wherein the'
element OF chance has been eliminated
in so far as is humanity possible,
Since its organization by the lat
Marcus Daily 1t has added many hnn-
dreds Of millions Of dollars to A.
wealth of the country; it has indirectly
built and supported towns and cities
and it has had, and still has, An i'm,
portant part in the development OF two
states, one of which, the third largest
in area in the union, has natural re-
sources that in extent and variety ard
not surpassed by those of any com.
monwealth Of America
Enormous Outlay.
Based on lis operations Of last wear.
the Anaconda Copper Mining company
produces and distributes more than
100000 daily before it earns a pennE
for itself. OF that average daily ex-
penditure $4,000 is paid by it for
labor, $4,000 for freight, $4,000 for
fuel and power, $500 for lumber aud
timber, $7400 for supplies and $4,000
for taxes and other expenses. In the
last FIVE years it hns distributed the
amazing sum of $2OS,279 332, Of which
Sl89,S30,754 was paid for labor and ma.
terial, mostly in Montana, and SlS,466,-
548 as dividends. This, in brief, is Tho
story of the Anaconda company, whisN
with its holding concern, the Amalg
mated Copper company, leads a districi
that produces at Butte, Mont, within
an area OF less than four square miles,
one.seventh OF the copper output Of the
world.
In relation to its employees the posi-.
ton of the Anaconda Copper Mining
company is unique, Labor leaders IA
miliar with conditions have asserted
that no other. huge industrial concern
treats its employees with the same lib
ernlity displayed by this Montana
company. IN a period covering more
than one-third of a century its miners
have never been on strike. It's en-
ployees in all departments are paid
the highest wages in the world for like
class of labor. In 1912 its 1924 ems
ployees were paid $16,S1S,2S4, an aver
age of more than $1,000 year. II ac,
count were taken of the men in tho
coal mines, on railroads and elsewhere
in the employ of the company, and not.
previously referred to, the showing
would DC even more remarkable. These
figures are impressive Their like can-
not be duplicated by any other great
industrial concern The average waga
of men in similar occupations, as
shown by the last federal census, is
little more than one~third the average.
paid by this company, one-half Of
whose operating expense approximately
is represented by this item.
Very Few Accidents.
In other ways the same liberal poll
icy prevails in respect to the COM
pany's treatment Of its employees, at
best hazardous occupation, mining all
Butte is made rs safe as it is POSSIBLE
to make it. Absolutely nothing is left
undone by the company to protect its
workers, Every tried
safety device and method known to-
modern mine management is employed
throughout its workings in the depths
and on the surface. It is n fact welt
by the men themselves that
more than rs per cent of the accident51
in this company's mines are due 20
cdIeleSsneSS IN Q1STeGaTulng ltS Luieo
governing mining operations. Work
ing conditions in the Butte mines are
as good as can be. The eight~hour day
prevails In the company's mines and
and the men are given the
benefit Of sliding scale, so that Their
wages are automatically increased IN
the event of higher prices for copper,
while they never go below fixed mini
mum. Rarely is the company de-
fendant in damage suits for injuries
sustained by employees in its service;
in all cases of difference it goes more
than half way toward effecting salts
factory settlements In short, its pol,
icy is dictated by humane and hbeIai
view. From mucker to mine superln,
al its employees are treated
with consideration.