The Arizona copper camp., 1919-09-20
Some DeIusions as to Methods and
Advantages.

Samuel Crowther writes in part in
The Worlds Work: The three large
concerns in this country which might
be said jointly to hold the long dis
tance record for industrial peace
none has ever had a serious strike
are, judged by standards of today, ut
terly unscientific in that they have no
labor methods at all.
Baldwin Locomotive Works is "a
years old and employs about 10000;
Disston Saw Works is rs years old
and employs about 1000; Endicott-
Johnson Co. is 80 years old and some
times has as many as $4,000. Nor"
has ever a serious wage dispute ex-
cept that, in 1911, outside influences
of a car strike caused temporary dis
organization in Baldwin Locomotive
Works. Heads and workers devote
themselves exclusively to work Wage.
seem pretty we'll able to care for
themselves. They had differences
concerning wages, but adjustments
have always been quickly arrived at.
These employers have been more in
terested in the work than in the stock
market-in product than in its price.
Back of every wage dispute lies
some kind of suppression or DISTORTION
of the creative instinct. "A real leader
of industry seldom finds pleasure in
the money he earns. The real fun is
in doing things The workman Great
ing something never bothers about
wages or hours.
A Master Builder.
Baldwin Locomotive Works is an
Institution. For some months Samuel
NJ Vauclain has been its president,
but for 20 years he has been the domi-
rating figure He worked his way UP
from an apprentice in Altoona shops
of Pennsylvania railroad. His prin-
cipal Joy in living is to build locomo-
tives. He reaches his office around
a. m. and leaves between 6 and in
the evening, although sometimes he
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He has never taken a vacation, be-
cause he never could find anything
that would give him as MUCH fun as
building locomotives. lie has never
bothered with personal finance and
has not for fifteen years known what
his own salary was; he said he did not
have time to bother with money and
had the company pay his salary to
trust company.
He is locomotive builder. He will
not build bad locomotive at any
price Every man from draughtsman
10 the lowest mechanic knows Mr.
Vauclain is locomotive expert from
any angle and could turn to any job
and do it better than the man doing
it. They resent bad work as bitterly
as he would. They are satisfied that
if they work well they will be well
paid and they always are.
Good Work Traditions.
Henry Disston and Sons, another
Philadelphia institution, was founded
by Henry Disston, expert saw maker.
In 1910, when he began i'll a cellar
shop, all saws were imported from
England He made saws and peddled
them. He sold the best saw he knew
how to make.
His cellar shop grew into u factory.
His sons followed him into the fac
tory; they became expert saw makers
before they became executives. The
second and the third generations have
i'll turn gone into the shops. Today
the saws go all over the world, each
as product of craftsmanship rather
than as a saw. The old workers send
their sons to Disston's to become ap-
prentices as the owners send in their
sons. The traditions are founded on
the single principle of good work;
every other detail has cared for itself.
The Disstons do not know what a
: labor problem is.
Endicott-Johnson Co. is first the pro-
prietor of community making shoes,
OSCOuOlJ CI CO1hPolJ' NV oN 4 49,
son began as shoemaker and is one
today. So are all the other executives
every one has worked at the bench.
He, too, believes in dignity of labor
and puts the idea into practice. Here
is his creed in his words:
The Employer as Labor Leader.
Wages is not the answer to Ia
boris unrest Hours and even work.
ing conditions is not the answer.
"I haven't seen any plan of repre-
sentation on boards of control by
workers which seems as good and cf-
fectiye as our plan which prevailed
when the boss worked and lived with
the workmen, when the workmen and
the boss went to dinner together,
played together; a return to. that sim
pie democratic idea that the boss