The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-06
Imperfect Statistics

costs of production labor costs will be found be absorbing
greater percentage of the total In almost
the beakdown fail to dfferenate between actual production
labor costs administrative managerial costs This holds
especially true the computation OF figures OF costs the
national industrial level.
Hearsts take from his newspaper enterprises Graces
pany would all be figured under and salaries and would
though reporters the Hearst
chain the aborer in the steel mills or the miners in the AC
Company's properties indeed lucky individuals.
Generally speaking people in reading reports of total
salaries and paid in industry fail to take into consider
the myriad of executives and executives bosses and
drawing fancy salaries many OF whom perform
other duties than small saared public relations man
might perform specially favored for
another such relationship or being the sons of some in
fluential stakeholder.
AS an example how these things work out to the pub
lies disadvantage, are reminded about subsidiary of
Electric Share called the Phoenix Utility Company
the construction branch organized by this mammoth
holding company and did the engineering and supervision OF
construction for all of the holding companys operating
panesof which the Montana Power Company one-and
all costs OF construction were done on cost Plus per cent
basis These COSTS of together with actual labor cost
of lands and properties etc. then became the basis which
rates for service to the public fixed.
The Phoenix Utility Company, which might have legti
matey Phoney" Utility Company had at one
time Is listed vice president presumably at salaries
beftting titles without doubt these salaries
charged against the engineering and construction done
for the operating thus adding to the possibility OF
Sailing the 10 costs charged and adding to the
figure used cost base for service fees to the public
These outoreason high salaries paid to Executives of
all corporations in instance directly indirectly are
paid by the public All that industry has to do make
little SNOWFALL roll grow with the
behind its increasing And of course
the public mauled and crushed under its constantly
ulating weight
Week before last Treasury report showed that 600
individuals received from single corporations than $751;
900 and up as high $685. for their services
There many thousands of others who have
much from combined of various
poraons in compensation interests dividends or combna
ton of these three.
Those of you who drive General Motors
interested in knowing that the president of that corporation
largest compensation individual employee of
single corporation having received salary of $15O000
$289695 other compensation amounting S19
of mi he
that this is the which leading the fight to curta
destroy abor rights to decent the postwar time
General Motors last paid 81 others compensation of
$4,000 for the these compensaton ranging from
100000 to $3OOOO0 And since the has been
gagged production close the 100 cent figure
every individual in the United States from the humbest scrub
up paid his share of these exorbtan and to
the largest extent unearned salaries Isn't lovely system
proud the mucker in the deep
should be to have such opportunity to contribute to it,
The Bethlehem Steel Company listed II individuals who
than $75OOO headed by G. Grace the
who received $22645 Poor Grace must have suffered
in the last war when he received bonus running over million
dollars "Them really the happy days!'
The Ford Motor Company with plenty of high saaried
nevertheless listed only two receiving more than $780,
900 in compensation One of these Sorenson received
$23O,000 and B. j. Craig received $119543. +
Only two listed drawing than SIS 900 from
newspaper enterprises These Willie Hearst with $780,
Publishing Company Other industrial figures named top
ping $4,000 in compensation received were:
James S. Kemper from Lumbermans Casualty
E. H Little from the Colgate Palmove-Peet
Co., $257,405.
E. H. Bobst from Northumberland, Inc,
$308,175.
B. Earl Pickett from Allied Stores Corp,
S2O1,647.
w S. Clifford from American Telephone Tele- =
graph Co., $21o,35O. y
Cornelius F. Kelley, Anaconda Copper & l II
Mining Co., and subsidiaries, $201,186. Il
Thomas ]. Watson from International Business :.
Machines Corp, $425,548. .
j. H. Rand, Jr. from Remington Rand, Inc, r
$225,543. 7.
c. w. Deyo one of six listed by F. w. Woolworth Il
Co., $25O,947. II
Andrew Jergens and Joseph D. Nelson, of the !,
Andrew Jergens Co., each 900. u
The movie industry had the largest list of salaries and fl
bonuses paid to individuals topping the $75000mark Para
listed 5 Twentieth Century Fox Film reported 80 and
Warner Bros listed 81.
1t is of impossible for to the fair fl
unfarnes the public of the salaries paid to people
field of 1t must be remembered that the working
stars only few years. and hard to
dollars and cents the service which their talents
make possible for them to render to the public in