The Arizona copper camp., 1920-02-14
EDITORIAL
OUT WITH THE CLOCK WATCHERS AND OUT
WITH THE LOAFERS

The Bethlehem Shpbulding Corporation has served
notice the oafer time killers and clock watchers at
its great Sparrows Point works Baltimore that they
to be discharged says editorial III the New York
Sum-
The men who habitually absent themselves from the
works whenever longing for day off strikes them the
who habitualy late the who Indifferent
lazy careless they to go, and their jobs to be
filled by who willing to work every day they can,
who willing to get to the shop time, who will
ing to give their employers square deal in strength skill
and energy.
This marks great and radical change from employ
ment conditions which have existed in this country for
five years, since the munitions demands Of Eu
rope knocked normal American manufacturing methods
galley west, put production costs out OF the reckoning
and made quantity turned out the sole object of indus
trial organizations It marks the restoration great
establishment of peace conditions in industry It gives
promise that other employers may insist day
work for day pay, regularity of attendance by their
workers. the delivery of honest service from end Of
their factories and offices to the other.
The time killers have been drawing pay they did not
earn which out of the pockets Of the people They
have done something more to make living costs HI ii.
They have slowed up operations all along the ms
gent and industrious have been eIc7 Of
slaczers. They could not 90
wanted to do iG, the WaT zy sEle6 do
somewhere else somebody was hot wef
should. Because diEgent Nete aallle1
sackers other dependent them processes
construction could keep the pace they capable
of and wanted keep All along the line production
been reduced deliveries delayed and piled costs
costs Of unealned wages, costs of machinery run below
its economical speed, costs Of capital tied up in
kind and description and every penny of these costs
of the pockets Of the people-because managers Of
plants meeting the demands of upon industry
and ignoring the normal standards of peace time opera
tion
These conditions were endurable for short period
in time, when every decision choice between
evils But they cannot be endured in peace time, when
every manufacturer must meet the competition of the
world go broke They cannot be endured in the United
States If the manufacturers Of the United States must
compete with the manufacturers of Germany where such
conditions do not exist with the manufacturers of
France where such conditions do not exist with the
manufacturers Of any other country where they do not
exist. They will not exist here the American
people get through their heads that not legislation not
high IDEALS not generous impulses not fine thoughts but
good honest hard work ntegently performed will solve
the problems this country must solve.
The decision of the Bethlehem Shpbulding company
not to empoIze with loafng is step in the right direc
ton step other employers of labor must take
ate step which will put heart into every honest worker
who has been discouraged, thousands Of them have
been by seeing loafers drawing high pay, step which
will bring the truth that must labor to live back
thousands who to think labor is unnatural some
thing the world do without When this truth is gen
orally recognized there will be less talk about hours Of
labor and rates of pay and general comprehension
of the fact that production of goods the thing the world
needs today