Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-23

analysed and is tested to the thousandth OF
cations and needs to which it is to be put
This great factory tests the steel before it
goes into the furnaces and the materials are
tested again and again until they come out
IN the completed product There is no
guesswork and the machinery of construc-
ton is such that mistakes can be traced to
the exact department and to the man who
makes them. Every motor car that goes to
the battlefield of France has it's number. and
of one breaks down without cause in the
midst of battle, the number of the defective
part could be sent back here and the man
who made it be traced
AS far as possible all sorts of war work
are being standardized. The government
wants its supplies in vast numbers, and
hundreds of men are engaged on the same
part, turning it day in and day out, all the
year through. This is SO of gas engines, of
cylinders of various kinds of magnetos and
OF all the parts that go to make up car
During my stay at this factory I watched
them paying the hands. About $4,000 are
pad every week and string of employees,
rncn and women, of hundred different ma
tlonalities, go by the pay window all day
long. Each gets his money as he passes,
and that in little pay envelope half as big
as those used for ordinary correspondence.
On the outside is marked the mans name.
and inside are bills | ran over some of the
envelopes and saw they were marked $3.50"
500 and upward. | opened one envelope
and the bills and exact change were inside.
The amount paid out in one day is often as
much as 100000 and it averages more than
$4,000 every "a hours During the month
of May last it was more than S5,OOO,OOO |
am told that large proportion of the work.
men receive s. and upward per day.
This company has a profit-sharng sys-
tenn based upon the habits, thrift and work
of the men and the use they make of their
money. The share of the profits given each
employe is distinct from his wages, and the
design is to give the man who gets the least
wages the largest proportionate share in the
profits. The system is such that most of
the employees make S. and upward per day.
The officials tell me that this profit
sharing has been success, that it has
doubled the bank deposits of the men, in
creased the number of homes owned by
about 100 per cent and the value of the
houses bought upon contract from a little
more than three million to more than five
and one-half million dollars.
| asked as to the effect of this system az
4 cost efficiency proposition; the manager
replied that they thought it was more than
paying, in better work, greater output and
in less change of hands There are some
thing like 5000 women employed in the
plant, who get the same money as the men
doing similar work When their wages
were raised to an equality with those of the
men, their efficiency at once jumped more
than 50 per cent
Zone of the most important values OF
this profit-sharing system" said one of the
men at the head of the factory, SIS that our
employees stay with us, and we do not have
to be continually hiring new men. Before
we'introduced it, in order to keep continu-
Gus force of little more than $4,000 men,
we had to hire as many as $1,000 new hands
throughout the year. Immediately after
the profit-sharing was introduced with
force of men of little more than $4,000, the