SO 11 051 OF PRODCTION L\ rauRsnay, SEPTEMBER 18, 1910. » sand L = chantes are that We toh pd i RISES AS WAGES INCREASE AND HOURS DEOREASH Xhe Question As To How Long Shall We Work Simmers Down To Pro- duction Per Hour, tit John Smart Mill may ded a bit when it comes rofound discussions of fons, We'll even go that--we'll grant with- out argu that we don't know anythin it. Beonomics. In our Young life, Economics means no more than erysipelas or any other dread di- sease. Therefore you will _ under: ' derstand that we do not regard the following as "Economics" but ag just a plain, "horse sense' view of the 'guestion concersing the hours of ! labor ' "How lofig shall we work?" That query has been (and still is) a sotirce of prolonged cussin' and dis- cussion. We begin cussin' almost our first breath, and never stop until the Doc says, "My Job's { through. Phone the flo » The ' discuds- ing it heatedly for some period after our exit from this world, for I am told that the life hereafter is an end- less day, which means that we will have horrible hours unless the mat- ter is speedily settled. Fifty years ago we thought 12 hours was a regular day. Bvery- body, in those days, worked 12 hours, and everybody was happy, and the birds managed to sing merrily in the morning--until someone got the Eleven Hour Bug and then gradual- ly 11 hours became the established workday. Ten hours followed and then the millenium arrived in the shape of Saturday afternoon "off." But still the cry is for even short- er working days and believe me Eddy I'm for 'em---I'm for one hour days % and 12 hour pays. So's everybody else. That being the case why the delay? What's putting the pause in the parade? Who's Holding up the proeession? If everybody's for less work, why don't we get it? I'll bet the Boss is holding out on us--eh? No, Eddy, the Boss isn't' holding out.on us--he'd just as leave work less--just the same as the rest of us. He'd just as leave give us more money---and for less work too IF and get that dF--IF everyone in your industry would do exactly the same thing. But if your Boss alone de- creased the hours of work, what do you thing would happen--what do you think would happen to him and to you? I'll tell you-- Let's suppose that you and your Boss are making some machine or other that sells for $10.00. Of this ten dollars the chances are you get about $3.00 for your labor on it. Three dollars for material; $3.50 goes to blazes for insurance, power, light, heat and the thing generally known as "overhead"--and the bal- ance (fifty cents in this case) goes to the Big Chief to split up with a A a A a TREE, AGENCY FOR ALL STEAMSHIP LINES For information and rates to deep anc Boonomic further ths : apply lo J. p, Haaley, C.P, & T.A., GT. Ry. Kingston, Ont. 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Then things begin to happen that neither of you thought of before Because you work fewer hours, you naturally make fewer machines per day. As a result the labor cost per machine jumps to---we'll say $3.60---instead of $3.00 as it was be- fore. (The chances are it would jump more than that, but, to be conservative, we'll say that this re- duction in working hours jumps the labor cost per piece only fifty cents.) That jump of fifty cents wipes out, or nearly wipes out, the profit. Bills begin to hang fire Creditors begin to holler and yell---and pretty soon the county sheriff runs down the al- ley, hangs out a red flag and a bunch of folks get "stuck," and a bunch more lose their jobs. "But" say you, "why in blazes didn't the Boss have sense enough to raise the prite of his machine? That would have fixed it up all right?' Yet it would---not! Darn it, Eddy, he coulkin't raise the price of his machine a cent--other ma- chines just like it were selling at $10.00, and he couldn't get more {the purchase of the Campbell Flour THE WORLD'S TIDINGS IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings From All Over Told in a Pointed and Pithy Way. Charles M. Schwab predicts a great | era of prosperity in the United | States Capt. J. H. Thorpe has been recom- { mended as a Conservative candidate for the Rusholme division of Man- | chester. : | At present there are 485.060 | pounds of Wiltshire tacon hfld in| "cure" in Winnipeg by the Swift Ca- | nadian Company for export trade Through the capture of Onega by | the Anti-Bolsheviki forces communi- | cation has been re-established be- tween the Allies on the Archangel and Murmansk coast fronts "National" ready-made clothing at the rate of 25,000 suits monthly will be put on the market in France, in the fight against the high cost of liy- ing. | Maple Leaf Milling Company pro- poses to issue $1,000000 additional preferred stock In connection with vice in Globe was founded for a cause--that cause was Re- sponsible Government, the Abolition of Clergy Reserves, the overthrowing of the Ecclesiastical Reform, for Representation by Population, for Confederation. All through the bitter controversies of those early days, The Globe stood helped lead the country through many dangers and pitfalls to great nationhood. This was George Brown's ideal. He fought for it by his personal ser- public life as well as through The Globe, which he founded in 1844. He lived to see Canada emerge from the i i : hit il it i - ---- et = RES rE . Georee Browris Ideal; Robert Jaffrays Ambition Family Compact. It fought for conscientiously to its task. It struggle a fully confederated Do- | Mil i Company, Toronto. 18 Tecent earth shocks in South- ern Spain caused serious damage at | Mediterranean seaport | Alicante (a with. about 50,000 population). The than ten for his 'any sooner<than youj could g®r iu Nrst-hand price fora second-hand fliver, The price at) } which almost everything sells is set | by competition and competitive costs The Boss can't any more increase the | price of his product than he can 'lift | himself by his own suspenders--un less, of course, he wants to hang | himself. { The only way we can save the | Boss's hide and our own jobs, if he] puts in the shorter working day, is! to PRODUCE MORE--produce much in our short day as we did ir our long day. If we do that, the] labor cost per piece produced will not increase, and therefore the ma- chine can sell at its old price, 1d everything will go merrily along Just the same as when we had the longer hours. In short, the answer to the Hour Question is, "Reduce 'em by. all means, IF we can produce as much in] our eight or six or four hour day as) we did in our ten or twelve or four-| teen hour days' The Hour Question | is not a question of hours at all - it's a question of Production, "But," you rightly ask, "why not reduce the hours of entire industry at once. That would enable 'em all to increase the price of their respective products without injury to anyone." Fine idea, Eddy, except-- Except for foreign competition! Foreign competition is the nigger in the woodplile. as | | The minute our cost of manufac- turing any item in this country gets above a certain rather low limit, for- eign competition steps in and un- dercuts the price of the American manufacturer, with the net result that these American manufacturers go fluey-fluey. If you want ex- amples of this I can hand them out by the dozen. And so it goes.. Raise wages or reduce hours and the cost of praduc- tion rises. Once or twice this may do ng harm. but the third time may make the company or the industry take the.count for keeps. You can't beat the Bame----except by increasing production, for by increasing pro- duction, we decrease the labor cost per plece-and-can-then takes our ra. ward in one of three ways without injuring the industry upon which we depend for our living--our reward may either be increased wages, short- er hours or lowered prices with resul- tant decreased cost of living which is really equivalent to an increase in wages, And all of these are the result of ----Production. So you see the whole question simmers down to one-----not of hours as it would seem---but to one of Production per hour. In Pro- duction (and not in the clock) is the answer to "How Many Hours Shall We Work?" | Gasoline in » Paris, Sept. iN buildings on entire streets of the city caved in from the tremors. A syndicate of English sportsmen | for a | match in London between Démpsey | and Beckett in April. Dempsey has | offers a purse of $160,000 been barred in Cincinnati, where he {1s described as a "prize-fighter," and not a "boxer. HOW HE NAMES IT. A Tissue of Lies, Says Philip Kerr, Paris, Sept. 17.--Peace conference circles are giving much attention to the published account here of the testimony by William C. Bullitt, for- | merly attached to the American peace delegation. before the American sen- ate committee on foreign relations. The statement accredited to Mr. Bul- litt that has arounsed the most inter- est is one to the effect that Philip Kerr, secretary to Premier Lloyd- George of Great Britain, had apolo- glged to Mr. Bullitt for the premier's denial in the House of Commons that approaches had been made by the Soviet government to the Entente. Mr. Karr has authorized the state- ment that "The account of private conversation between himself (Mr. Bullitt), Lloyd-George and Philip Kerr, as reported in @ New York téle- '| gram to & Paris newspaper is a tissue of lies." - S------------------ Alleged Whiskey Theft. Belleville, Sept. 17.--Alfred Nich- olson and Prosper Frechette, of this city, were before Magistrate Masson charged with stealing a quantity of liquor to the value of over $75: also of stealing from a box car of the G.T.R. Company. It is alleged that the accused took twelve gallons of Hquor which was in tramsit from Montreal and consigned to the Corby Distillery Company at Corby ville. Special G.T.R. officers were responsi- ble for the arrests being made. The liguor. was found in a ditch between the railway tracks and the road, and the arrests were made nearby, the accused having come to the locality In a motor car. 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