Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-12-27
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(From the Saturday Evening Post)

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 seven hours, or not at all, must work ten, twelve and fourteen hours or
 starve. For beyond the day-to-day
 requirements of the world there must
 be a certain dependable surplus, and
 the loafers on the job, and those who
 will not take job, have already con-
 stunned that surplus in many countries
 and have gnawed it down to the dan
 ger point in others. In few months
 Bella Kun and his crowd blew in the
 little surplus of Hungary, and it will
 take ten years to rebuild it. These
 new interiors of the kingdoms of
 earth are spendthrifts and they have
 met a quick and inevitable bankrupt
 cy. A national bank roll has precisely
 the same limitations as a personal
 one.
 One of the amusing developments in Russia is the way in which Lenine
 is throwing overheard, one by one, the
 principles for which the Revolution
 stood. Working hours are being
 heightened to ten, twelve and fourteen
 a day the right to strike is being
 denied, and skilled managers are be-
 ing employed at enormous salaries to run the industries. The new political autocracy makes the old one look ben evolent, while beside the new indus
 trail autocracy our Steel Trust IS
 shockingly radical-and Judge Gary
 almost red. Fair-hired Olga has, we
 fear, rung in confederate and wire
 less telephone on the earnest little
 circle of Deep Thinkers in her parlor'
 The real problems of Reconstruc-
 tions are in your factory, your office your block, your home ,and probably , in your wife, your children and your ; self. If you do not find them there . you are a very unusual man with an , almost too perfect family. The Stat esmen cannot tell you half so much about these problems in their speeches as you can find out in first-hand survey of your neighborhood.
 In our own survey we talked, among !, others, to the employment manager o1
 large manufacturing concern. From , two to three hundred applicants fol , positions pass through his department every day. Your first conclusion is :, of course, that there is a surplus o1 3 labor; but, on the contrary, there art 3 good openings in almost every de : partment of this business, both office 3 and factory. More competent mel : and women are needed everywhere . This particular manager had just fin Q ished interviewing two hundred six . teen-year-old girls in an effort to fint . one who would start as an office gir : at ten dollars week, with the pros S pect of early promotion to clerica e work. He could not find one anon, - them who would take the place, no
 because they were qualified for some e thing better, but because they wante, y something better in spite of their lacl a of qualifications.
 g High pay for skill and intelligence c is the best spent money in a busi l. ness. But during the war there wa [, wild competition between our govern a mental activities and private enter e prise for any kind of labor and ex e travagant wages and salaries wer s paid to the unslilled and the unintelli l. gent. Peacetime industry cannot af J ford those salaries except to peopl l. who know their business or are willing '- to learn it. Neither can it afford tn t tremendous labor turnover that result r from employing these restless, care II less, stacking incompetents.
 7, Before the war applicants for pos '- ition usually asked two questions l. Can I get a job? and What chanc
 have I to work up? They are stil e asking two questions: What do yo ,t pay? and What are the hours? Thes d are both perfectly proper question 5. and the answers are important to tn j. applicant, but as they are put toda a the attitude of the beginner to hi y work is crystallized in them. He y not only asking How much can l get d but How little can give in return flo n it? And that is just what this clas l. of employees give.
 ir A boy of eighteen, with a gramme,
 school education, without training an r. experience except as a shell passe }; during the last six months of the wa, S. applied to this employment manage d for a place in which he would hay l. had steady work, chance to lear
 skilled and highly paid trade, wit s. promotion to anything higher fc m which he could fit himself.
 It His first and only question abor l. the place was: "What do you pay T. "Twenty dollars week to stal l. with," was the answer.
 n- "It isn't cigarette money" returne es the youth as he passed out.
 y This boy, with overtime, had mad 'n sixty dollars week as shell pas:
 CT. He had been loafing since the da " of the armistice, waiting for someor e, to hire an uneducated ,inexperience