Evening star., 1923-07-26
1890 MEN NEEDED
FOR 8.H0UR SHIFT
u S. Steel Company Plan
ming for Better Work
ing Day.
BY j. c. ROYLE.
pecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star. ...r
NEW YORK. July 26.-The ques-
tion OF holding the men they have
is taking an equal place with the
question of securing more workers
At the conference of executives of the
subsidiary companies of the United
States Steel Corporation today in
Appropriation for eliminating the
twelve hour day from the steel in
dustry.
At the basic wage scale of 40 cents
an hour. twelve hour workers have
been making $3.50 Il day. Under the
eight hour arrangement they would
earn only s3.2o day, and steel execu-
Z tives indicated today that they do
not consider that wage sufficiently
large to hold those employed or to
attract others. The steel corporation,
IL is estimated. will require at least
32.5oe additional workers to put the
eiGht hour day in full effect in addi-
1ion 10 the $1,000 to 10000 men now
working IL twelve-hour shift.
- Judge +. ii. Cary. chairman of the
Soard OF the leading interest, esti-
mates that the change will add Is
per cent to the cost of steel. Pres
Ident Campbell of the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Company placed the
increase at SO a ton. But although
the working time will be cut SSh
per cent. il is regarded today as
..ouptlui lf the hourly increase to
t"eIve-hour workers will exceed 10
10 l2!2 per cent and it NAV not be
placed so high.
Labor supply Improves.
The supply of labor has improved
slghtly. due rather to lessening of
operations than increase of the
number of workers and steel execu-
itr
LABOR; are turning their attention
largely TO getting larger and better
results from those, they have than 10
securing large numbers of others
employers all over the country are
H'ring efficiency experts not only to
pulld up efficiency of workers, but to
elinunates machinery waste william
~ bassett' industrial engineer. who
served on the Hoover committee for
$le elimination of waste in industry.
asserts that if proper measures are
taken and the most improved ma
S'tnery employed to its fullest extent
u VIII be possible to raise wages 80
per cent and at the same time in
crease production and profits so per
cent. This movement is supported
rather than opposed by big labor
ieadefs Samuel -Gompers declared
that American la Dor always had taken
pride in its ability and had the right
10 be uncramped by inefficient man
agement.
Ford output Increasing.
\ reality, many manufacturers are
mixing leaf out of Henry Ford S
BOOK of factory management. The
domestic plants of the Ford company
established another new high weekly
production record in the period end
ing Tuesday night with an outturn of
4o.930 cars and trucks. The tractor
output for the week was 1882
The extent of the Ford export busi-
ness and his plans for it's expansion
are plainly evident from the purchase
OF sites for large new assembly plants
u Norfolk and Philadelphia Each
city had high hopes of taking care of
all the Ford shipments to foreign
countries. but 1t is probable that each
must be satisfied with a part
New Move by Traction Lines.
The move of traction interests to
make automobile truck lines a sub
sldlary part of their freight business
long discussed all over the country
SldS fair to be put in operation on a
big scale in Michigan The Detroit
United Railway has formulated a plan
FSr pick p-and-delivery truck sery-
Ice to operate in conjunction with its
electric freight cars which may give
the territory served by its 900 miles
OF track the equivalent of express
service at very nearly the rates on
1relsht The company has petitioned
1he state authorities for permission
10 form a subsidiary trucking corno
ration, which will pick up merchan-
disc freight and deliver it in nearly
every community on the companv's
lines. a tentative. charge of 7 cents
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