The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-12-26
Want
Share Profits

by Dividing Profits With Labor" ap-
pearing in the Engineering and Mining
Journal OF September 27th. is apropos:
Unrest and discomfort are world
wide. Dissatisfaction with the exist
ing social and Industrial order is prac-
tically universal.
In Russia. BoIshevism is virtually
q strike against the former and now
extinct government. but every other
nation in which men
think and feel and reads seething
with the spirit of revolt and desire fo-
change, which finds expression in
strikes where there is even the semb-
lance of organization to give form TO
concerted demands. And amid the
epidemic of strikes and threats OF
strikes. unorganized labor--unnumber.
ed artisans and workers. professional
and other-must accept such poor So
lace and hope as may be afforded by
protest from soap box. from platform.
and in reams of letters to the press and
to legislative bodies. The trades IN
lonists. with in general. a living wage
are demanding further recognition.
The vast body of the unorganized.
squeezed into semi-starvation by the
weight of opposed Industrial forces.
are in desperate plight.
So deep seated Is the present deter
mination to alter present conditions
so al-embracing is it's character, as to
compel the conclusion that it has a
common origin and springs from
common cause. And before a correc-
tive can be administered. that cause
be sought found and applied, First,
the facts must be determined; second
the source from which they spring
must be established; and third, a
means for resolving the Industrial
problem must be erected.
Strikes-en masse or by the individ-
ual as he quits his job-and the inn
pulse that inspires and fosters them,
are produced by, first, suffering pri-
walton and want; second, by discomfort
arising from (a) insufficient pay; (b)
too long hours; Co oppressive and hui
initiating conditions of employment;
I'D high prices decreasing purchasing
power of circulating money medium).
Labor wants and is necessarily de-
manding share of the profits of in
dustry-and to marked extent a part
also in the management. 1t has been
the habit of Labor to insist upon, and
Of just employers to accord a living
wage. Labor is no longer satisfied
With living wage. 1t is demanding y
profit from the turnover. And it has
learned that lesson from Capital
| from management.
| Industry must readiust it's practice
so as to pay profit on Labor as well
as on Capital. A living wage is no
agement-demands and takes
security, wage and profit. Labor now
demands a living wage, security and
profit. Both labor and capital, pro-
duce all the profit. Profit should be
equally divided.
| 1t is begging the issue to maintain
that labor will not ACCEPT it's share
of business loss. 1t does If a bust
ness does not prosper it fails. Work
| ceases. The worker must get new
job. If it prospers, he, with capital
and Management, has achieved the
result. He must and will share in thu
profits-plus a living wage. The most
astute and far-seeing bankers and pub.
licists have been proclaiming this fol-
years. And the managers of Industry
with noteworthy, exceptions, immune
from the prevailing pestilence have
steadfastly refused to grow in wisdom
with the world, and have been sittins
tight on the safety valve. And nov
the machine is showing unmistakabl,
signs of excessive heat Who permit
and encourages the impending explos
ion must go up with it. Apportionin,
the blame-fixing the guilt-will no
refabricate this destruction
1t is the great privilege of the min
ing industry to be able to point tn
way to Justice in this acute crisis
The arrangements and men-twin fac
tors in production have agreed, Il
Nany camps, and communities. upon
plan of opera tion so fair, so reason
able, so just that even achild can un
derstand and approve it. Wages o
metal miners, under extensively pre-
vailing scales, depend on the marke
price of the joint production of Capita
and Labor Profiteering in the nee
essaries of life is curbed by approve
control of retail distribution. Not in
day has all dissension been dissipate;
but the way seems light. and the prin
ciple to which adherance has bee
pledged on it's face acceptable in goo
faith
Not all industries sell their produt
by the pound at periodically determine
fixed market prices. But all bushes
men worthy of the determination kno
how to find the costs of production
and how to apportion them. And tn
time has come that Labor knows, ais
how to find the costs-and the incom,
and even the rank and file are cor
WINGED that Capital is appropriating a
or nearly all. of the profits.
Evolution has made another turn
the wheel Autocracv-politica1, 81
cial ecclesiastical and industrial--li'
, buried in the soil of France. Accom'
! dalton to the new order. readiustmei
Q Of the new and more equitable basi
I is the only alternative of the force
, and violent ultimate acceptance of IL
!. conditions of the New Era The ST
of Industrial feuda1ism is setting.
l. Strikes are an abomination. TIL,
/ are costing the world millions evel
g day. and wasting the substance al
e strength of the race. The imperati'
need of the hour is machinery for [