50 YEARS AGO — May 1937 — Consolidated Smelting Solves Labor

In setting wage scales it has been considered advisable, first of all, to establish a minimum-wage scale which will take care of the workmen’s cost of living and then to add bonuses acknowledging efficiency of the workmen and also bonuses proportioned on the company’s profits. * * * Working time and conditions during the depression were worked out between the management and the men’s committee. Reprinted from The Northern Miner, May 1937.