Montana labor news., 1945-07-05


Reconversion and cutbacks did not
figure in the thoughts of these gentle
men. The figures cover only salary.
commission, bonus and other compensa-
ton for personal services. They do not
cover interest on bonds, premiums on
investments or money from sale Of Sc
curities.
For instance there is the 1dsterine
manufacturer the Lambert co. which
paid salary of $4,000 plus bonus Of
Is grand to John L. Johnston for a total
of $95OOO
And Vick's Vapo Rub sold well enough
for the Vick Chemical Co to lay out
$9O,2l5 to w. Y. Preyer and $76,l35 to H.
S. Richardson in its top bracket.
Then there were IA officers Of the t.
I. DUPONT de Nemours & co. who got
over $4,000 in the fiscal year Of 1913
Just coming to light. Eight of these were
over 100000, with a top figure Of $780,
600 to Walter S. Carpenter, Jr.
The Diamond T truck business was
good enough to pay three officers over
$4,000 each: E. A. Bush, S. A. Cook
and c. A. Peirce And Fairbanks, Morse
q Co, makers Of big scales, etc, wrote
a check for $161 500 to Robert H. Morse.
Household Finance Co, which has
chains Of small loan offices all over the
U. S. thought the services Of B. E. Hen
derson were worth $125,O38.
Lumbermens Mutual Casualty co. pros
pered in policy sales and laid out $4,000
for James S. Kemper.
Montgomery Ward & Co. presented
Chairman sewell L. Avery with $1OO,599,
and gave c. D. Ryan $84 400, but he
didn't get the publicity sewell did
For drawing that little fascist-minded
comic character, Little orphan Annie
for the Chicago Tribune-New York News
Syndicate, Harold Gray knocked down
Just $94048 of which $8l, ,O48 was in
other compensation, probably from
royalties for the sale Of the strip TO other
papers.
Promoting the Smile of Beauty" ana
the Smile of Health" cost the Pepsodent
Co. 100000 for Charles LuckInan and
sl18,333 for Kenneth G. Smith.
struggling textile manufacturer,
Packard Mills, Inc. scraped up $99,622
for Ralph K Hubbard as a years COM
pensation, while the Chrysler Corpora
ton could do that well to only one Of
its three officers earning over $4,000
Packard laid out $1OO,9OO to X. T. Keller
B. E. Hutchinson got 100000 and FREQ
M. zedar a mere $85, 400.
Ford Motors reported only two men in
the top flight C. E. Sorensen with
$23O,OOO and B. J. Craig at $119,543
General Motors, however, listed total
Of 80 men in the big money topped with
Charles E. Wilson'S $459O41. Other CBT
men struggled along on a good deal less:
Albert Bradley $3.50, 1882; Charles F. Ket-
tering. $3O8,117; Alfred p. Sloan Jr
5000. 800; Donaldson Brown, $3O6,16O and
the Fisher brothers, Edward and Law
renee, got just $259,8l5 and $164454
respectively. A total of 20 GIN officers
got over 100000 and - of these were
over 100000.
Campbell Soup settled with $95, ,250 to
Arthur Dorance, while Palmolive Soap
paid off E. H. Little at $257405, and
gave two others S77777 and $101650
each. Sore muscles brought profits to
Baume Mengue so the company reward
ed Theodore Seltzer with S2OO,394 in
salary and commissions. American Can
co. gave two executives, T. N. Anderson
and D. w. Figgis checks for $4,000 each,
and rewarded NJ. J. Sullivan at $153, 500.
Walter S. Clifford of American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Got $21O,35O, which
was lust a bit less than George W. Hill
of American Tobacco deposited in 1913
s252.275. Anaconda Copper's books
showed $2Ol 1876 to Cornelius F. Kelley
and Sl51l61 to James r. Hobbins.
Slightly less valuable we're the services
Of Robert Dwyer. Bob got only $96,766
winthrop W. Aldrich Of New York's
Chase National Bank got $1SS 800 from
that source, but Aldrich works only part
time. His other activities include being
head of the International Chamber OF
Commerce and many details of the NAM.
There's a lot more-but you can get
the whole list from the Treasury depart
ment in washington. It's interesting