The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-03-18
Alcohol and Efficiency
(Engineerlng and Mining JournaD

that the men do less work, ana are
even demanding extra and unearned
money on Saturday as bride to pre-
vent them seeking job elsewhere.
MANY of the employers are con-
WINGED that the Government will have
to close public houses in the arm
aments areas If they want the output
to increase. If the men like to drink
away their money, that is no affair
of the states; but they are drinking
away their time and their energy,
which is a very different matter at a
ime when the acceleration of contracts
Is of vital consequence, If we had
heard this view expressed by tenn
perance fanatics, we should have dis
missed it for an ex-parte attempt TO
make the nation sober by martial law,
But when GLASGOW iron masters talk
like this, and order water instead of
whiskey with their mutton, one must
take the proposal seriously"
Experience of Anaconda Company.
Now comes the Anaconda Copper
Mining Co. with the following state
ment in a ecent issue of the ABODE
saying: among the rules appearing
on the bulletin boards at the mines Is
the :ciaWing
"'Nevcr go to kork after drinking
liquor, and If you must drink, stay
home Experience has proven that
great many accidents are caused from
drinking Intoxicating liquors.
1T will be remembered that from
Sept. /, 1914 to Sept. IA all saloons in
Butte were closed that from Sept IA,
Ito Sept "a they We're open only from
Is am. to 7 pm, and that for the re-
minder of the month they were open
only from am. to 10 pm. The &C
cdent records of the Anaconda Cop
per Mining Co. show the following sig
nificent figures: Number of accidents
per 10000 shifts: July, 6.22; August
1925; September, AL; October, 1853;
November, 6.07."
There is thought to be good pros
pect that the states of Montana and
Idaho will soon follow the example of
Arizona and Colorado in declaring for
prohibition and there is prospect that
even Great Britain will do something.
The Chancellor in a speech at Bangor,
Wales, March /, made the following
significant remarks:
Some workmen in the armament
works refuse to work a full weeks
work for the nations need. They are
in the minority The vast majority
belong to the class that we can depend
on, but a small minority of workmen
can throw whole works out of gear by
reason sometimes of one thing and
sometimes of another. But to be per-
fectly candid it is mostly the lure of
drink. They refuse to work full time
and when they return their strength
and efficiency are impaired through
the way they spent their leisure.
Drink is doing us more damage than
all the German submarines put to-
gather. Russia has stopped drink. Mr..
Bark. the Russian minister or finance,
with whom l conferred in Paris, told
me that the output Of Russian work
men had increased from 80 to so per
cent since the sale of vodka had been
prohibited. He admitted that he had
lost 560OOOOO pounds in yearly rev.
enue, which he certainly could not af-
ford, but he added that if 1t was pro-
posed to revert to the old condition
then would be revolution in Russia,
The stoppage of the sale of GriAk
in Russia had been due entirely
to the Gar and 1t was one of the
most heroic things of the war;
The sincerity of the Russian pro-
Inhibition of alcohol has heretofore
been accepted by some persons (cum
grano salis). but after these official
statements there ought not to remain
any doubt about 1t.