The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-09-27

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,,.nv mine presidents. directors
anaeers and stockholders are either
"nar,ooking or ignoring the adVaht-
EOS Of mine operation on the leasing
es.am The general, and very erron-
attitude today toward this
,notbod of mine operation Is that wheh
inc is tottering to its grave, then
aones the proper and accepted time to
Da,ong its life by artificial restora-
,,ves in the guise of leasers. There
saro the statement that mine is De-
,,a leased is equivalent to hanging
go ma ON the door and announcing that
~. ramains may now be viewed by
sorrowing stockholders. ! believe that
,ho leasing system may be as advan-
tapeously applied to mines in robust
hoa,th and with long expectancy as
- those in extremis. l believe that
nine operation by the leasing system
% orr nearest approach to the proht-
sbarine and bonus learning plans
which are holding the attention Oh
.ho most broad minded industrial
managers
Increasing industrial Efficiency.
The industrial problem of today is
10 increase the efficiency OF the work.
orc and the large industrial companies
ore struggling to this end through
their welfare committees, working to-
ward better living conditions; through
MACE work methods; through the efti-
ciency time studies to eliminate UNI
necessary efforts; and through bonus
having and profit-sharing plans. In
recent article telling of his expert
ences in developing the Bethlehem
Steel company to it's present standard
of high production and profit earning
Charles M. Shcwab describes how he
introduced the element of competi-
ton into his furnace crews by writ
ing on the floor in front of the fur
mace the number of heats run by the
day shift. When the night shift saw
the figure, they asked what it stood
for, and the next morning Schwab
found his figure 6 erased and in its
place. The rivalry was started, ana
mounting rapidly it revivified the en-
tire organization. 1t resulted ultims
ately in the adoption of the profit
sharing system of wages which is now
an integral part of the Bethlehem
Steel company's operations. Dis
cussing this feature one day, banker
said to Mr. Schwab, your profit shar-
ing scheme works all right in your
factory because it Is applicable to
your business, but 1t couldn't be used
In our bank. Our business couldn't
be handled by any such method" Mr..
Schwab saws that to prove his point
of it's general applicability he person.
ally worked out the details of a profit
sharing system for bank operation.
This holds a lessen for the mining
profession. The leasing system seems
the most direct-and the most easily
installed-method to get results such
as have been accomplished under the
profit sharing plans 1t puts the in
tensified efforts of large body OF men
into the problem of producing the
largest possible tonnage in the short
est possible time; which is, of course,
the aim of our business. just how Its
application is to be worked out in de-
tail is the problem of the manage
ment. This is the arrangements bus
mess.
Leasing System Stimulates Personal
Effort.
have before me figures, which am
not at liberty to publish, showing how
very profitably this method has been
applied, both for the company and for
the leaser. The company makes more
net money per ton, and has lower
cost per foot of development work
than it did while operated for many
years solely on days pay basis. the
leasers make more money than mere
days pay would give them, and the
mine as a whole is larger, better and
developing faster than it could withs
out this important factor of personal
interest and financial stimulus inject
ed into the whole organization
through this profit sharing system
This result has brought this problem
directly home to me, and the POSSIBLE
ity of its wide application induces me
to suggest these prominent factors fol
the consideration of my fellow engin'
GERS.
The leasing system offers adVan'
tages that are not to be had through
company operation on days pay pa
sis. 1t brings forth the quality-ver!
essential to any business-of interest
ed, and therefore intensified, develop
ment A leaser has a sense OF posses
sion in a part of the mine, and NJ
aims to make his portion as product
i've as possible. He becomes an In
terested owner, and he loses all con
sideration of his former problem
how to put in his daily shift with a
little labor as possible. His owner
ship provides new and strong men
tai stimulus. The nearest apprQac
to getting the same result on a day
pay basis is to provide shift Dos
for aooL H+t1o urnrn IF poiuprC an