The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-18
HGA-CLASSLADOR
IMPROVES QUALITY
Better the Class Of Workmen
Employed in Automobile
Foctory Better the Quail
ity Of Product.
THINKS REQ MANAGER

Hire highs class men if you want
quality work." is the axiom laid down
for the conducting of REQ factory af-
fairs.
I'VE believe that the class of work
men we employ has almost as much to
do with the quality of the REQ product
as the class of materials that enter
into our automobiles and motor
trucks says Mr.. Scott
"A large percentage of workmen EN-
ployed in factories nowadays are what
might be termed 'floaters' These
men seem to have no definite purpose
in life but are obsessed with the wun-
derlust and they keep changing from
place to place, always sure, in good
times of some kind of a job. That's
one way to get experience of course,
but we find such men do not make
desirable or dependable workmen.
Neither do we care to employ men
from other factories. First because we
do not want to deprive our competitors
of the men they have trained; and,
second, because we find that men
trained from the ground up to the REQ
way of doing things are infinitely SUI
pcrior.
we prefer to take young fellows
right off the farm. when we can get
them, put them in ut the bottom ard
~. ti,,,,
shortcomings stand between them and
the Top.
I'VE take great pains to educate
such men to our ways, and as they
become proficient, they are promoted
Because of the constant and steady
growth Of the REQ factories, there arc
always positions opening up for fore
men, superinlandents and managers
of departments. Consequently, there
IS always an incentive for a man to
do his best in order to obtain advance
ment.
I'm that way we keep our manu-
featuring organization together and
give the fellows who show talent an
opportunity to constantly advance and
better themselves.
"If we were to hire men from other
factories where they do things differ
entity. we would not be able to obtain
that uniformity of workmanship, that
exactness or that quality in the prod
net for which the REQ line is famous.
IN most cases We have found that
man from, other Factories have hprp
told to do things in ways that are fast
err, but not so sure.
In the REQ plants we do not ask so
much for speed as for accuracy.
I'VE have never been ambitious to
make all the acknowledgements the
best.
ION that account we do not try to
speed up our men or our machines to
the highest notch. We strive to obtain
efficiency by the surer route--that of
not having to retrace our steps.
4 have been Il manufacturer all my
life. and | have studied carefully all
the different methods by which so
called experts achieve what they call
efficiency. and. as a matter of fact. T
have found ther" is more waste in
speed than in anything else. 1t is easy
enough to pound men on the back and
tell them to shoot that stuff through
but if YOU watch the matter carefully.
You will find that more is lost in parts
that have to be culled out in the in
srection. and i'll time lost in trying 10
assemble parts that do not fit. than
would be lost in the first place by talk
ing the time to make those parts prop
crlN
Good tools, always in perfect con
dition. is the surcst road to efficiency
and the only way Won can be sure o'
having tools always in condition is hH
having intelligent men handling them
we pay REQ workmcn more thar
the wage demanded by tho floatcr typ,
of laborer. hut VIC find we get TIN
difference in efficiency and in in,
quality of the finished product.
"Perhaps our Systom-our way o
holding on 10 good mon and promot
ing them whenever opportunity arise
is the reason why n very large per
centage of our men arc married. haV
families. and are permanent citizens c
Lansing.
we were astonshod ourselves /
find recently. on making canvas
that nearly 80 per cent of the populA
ton of Lansing, city Of 10000 peopl
derives its sustenance directly or il
directly from the REQ payroll.
Every manufacturer knows tn" 81
periority of married men over sing
ones-the very fact that they hay
homes with home interests, and Il
settled. makes them better men mel
tally. as well as physically.
"When a man owns his own home.
is anxious to hold on to his job. an
of course, he is anxious for advanc
ment. We find the wife is a very in
portant factor in this matter of a