The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-12-14
After the War.

After the War.
American industries have met and
overcome foreign competition in the
markets of the world by reason of the
abundance OF our natural resources,
the ingenuity of our inventors, and the
use of improved machinery by which
higher wages paid here are compensat-
ed by the greater value OF the output
per man. Today Europe Is being fore
ed to increase the percapita output OF
its artisans, to hustle to use labor
saving machinery on an unprecedented
scale, and to make a larger use OF
female labor in many occupations. At
ter the war many of the millions now
under arms or engaged in making mill
tary supplies will be employed in the
industries of peace, much of the labor
saving machinery will not be scrapped
but will be used in making products
that will be needed, and the increased
efficiency developed through the nee
essities of war may be expected to per-
sist for an indefinite period.
In the readjustments that will fol-
low the coming of peace, the Amerl-
can producer will have to consider not
only the mineral industries of diff
ferent Europe, but also the effect OF
mines and works in Canada, Mexico,
South America, Asia, and Africa.
Clearly some of our old standards of
trade are liable to disappear; new con-
ditions will create new problems
1t seems to me that the chief needs
of the United States, If it is to meet
these new conditions successfully, are
wider and deeper cooperation
among our industries, an elimination
of factionaism and sectionalism, AND
the growth of desire to work togeth-
er for the common good.
Inasmuch as no plan of coopera-
ton can be most effective unless bas-
ed on willingness and desire rather
than on compulsion, and as every
body can aid in some way, / ask the
members of the American Mining con-
gress to endeavor in their undertake
Iings to bring about the substitution of
what has been termed cooperation In
competition" for that intense and Sell
fish competition which has led to the
ruthless waste of our natural re-
sources and shocking disregard of hu-
man life. The bureau of mines has
sought and seeks your cooperation in
all its efforts to benefit the mineral
industries and the men who labor IN
them. Nothing has given me greater
pleasure than the manner in which
the American Mining congress and
other organizations, as we'll as mining
companies and miners, engineers and
chemists have responded to that ap-
peal, and l gladly take this oppor-
} tunity to express my qualification.
But, after all, the work for greater
national efficiency is hardly more
than started; what remains to be
done is far larger than what has been
, accomplished, and for this reason l
hope that you will continue to aid the
| bureau in it's Investigations, offering
suggestions or making criticisms as
. you see fit, and adopting such of its
' recommendation as you find practic-
able. Federal aid to efficiency can
I not accomplish what it should unless
4 you feel that the government is en-
: 4deavoring to help you, and the de-
0 partment of the interior and the bur-
Q eau of mines can not do what they
wish to do unless you perceive thai
: behind their efforts to aid efficiency
g in mining is the desire to advance the
Q welfare of this country and through