New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-27
Paw for Guardsmen.
Or Of The Tribune.


Sir: The initial listing in The Tribune OF
June %. on page 5. of those employers OF
labor that guarantee the job and all or part
Of the pay to national guardsmen called to
duty by the mobilization order Of the Presl-
dent is certainly a very excellent idea, as II
thereby gives public recognition to the pa
triotism Of these fortunate employers;
fortunate because they have the means at
their command to make good on the guaran-
tee; have the wealth wherewith to pay. There
are, however, many employers equally as pa
triotic who cannot offer to stand by, whose
business land they are the largest aggregate
Of all business) very largely is simply one
Of good wages to the employees and a mod
est profit as salary to the employer at the
end Of the year. They seldom accumulate
enough 70 retire upon, and must continue
working for a living just the same as the
employe
National guardsmen may be employed by
them at just as good wage as the other
gUardsmen employed by their Weather broth
ers-in fact, the employer himself maybe
gusrdsman, and his response to the call OF
our country may smash his modest business
and put himself and family in debt equally
as certain as il does some guardsman work
ing for wage on the certainty of which
wage he has contracted lease OF home and
other just obligations that the wage Of
soldier will positively not allow him to pay
Shall the one patriot be financially ruined,
while the other patriot pulls through through
the benefits conferred on him by the fact
he works for wealthy concern. And this in
the face Of the fact that only few thous
nit eli
fewer thousands from our other states.
For want of better name / will call the
following suggestion the "Dolson idea for
mutual relief" and invite general considera
ton of same as positive and instant way
that every soldier can be taken care OF while
away from the job in the Office or factory. but
on the job nevertheless, and doing his share
in furnishing the necessary government pro-
lection, without which the alien forces would
rapidly take over our country and the bust
ness cease to exist.
Irrespective of the wealth of the employers,
and irrespective of the fact that the guards
man be an employer or an employee, let the
concern have It's auditor make up what | shall
call basic sum-" to be composed of an est
mated fair annual earning of the concern.
plus the sum total of all the wages paid for
similar period-as per example-annual earn
ngs. 100000; annual wages $500 1000; total
basic sum, 100000 Guardsmen called
from concern, ten that have been averaging
$4,000 each in salary or wage, or if one be
the employer, then profits but averaging,
nevertheless. for the ten as $4,000. a total of
$4,000 for all of them Rapidly, the auditor
announces the tax rate on the basic sum as
per cent (S5000O0, at per cent. 100000,
and every payday the paymaster takes from
the wage of every one the per cent. and the
same he places in the pay envelope of the
soldier and turns it over to his family Star
walton and all the horrors of debt are thereby
even more absolutely eliminated than under
the single guarantee of the wealthy employ
err. Paternslsm is avoided and every one
shares in the burdens, including the foreign
wage Garner. JOSIAH ". DOLSON
New York, June %, 1916.