Presto
Issue: 1920 1792 - Page 29
November 27, 1920.
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>4POLLO
1 HIGH COST OF HIRING
A NEW FACTORY HAND
9t Suppose ^ M
docs cost us
a little
Tt^lPOLLO PL4NO COMB4NY
-DXII.I1I.
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
Dealers* Attention Solicited.
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 West 6X4 Place, CHICAGO, ILL.
6 7 Years of Impro?ed Effort Are
Behind Everj Piano Turned Out by
CABLE&SONS
THE OLD RELIABLE
ESTABLISHED 1852
Factory and Offices i
550-552 West Mth Street
NEW YORK
EVERY MAN, WHETHER
Directly or Indirectly Interested in
Pianos, Phonographs or the General
Music Trade
Should have the three booklets compris-
ing
PRESTO TRADE LISTS
No. 1—Directory of the Music Trades—
the Dealers List.
No. 2—The Phonograph Directory—the
Talking Machine List.
No. 3—Directory of the Music Industries
(Manufacturers, Supplies, etc., of
all kinds).
Price, each book, 25 cents.
The three books combined contain the
only complete addresses and classified
lists of all the various depart-
ments of the music indus-
tries and trades.
Choice of these books and also a copy of
the indispensable "Presto Buyer's Guide,"
will be sent free of charge to new sub-
scribers to Presto, the American Music
Trade Weekly, at $2 a year.
You want Presto; you want the Presto
Trade Lists. They cost little and return
much. Why not have them?
Items Listed as Labor Waste Are Set Down by In-
dustrial Bureau in New York.
A saving of $28,500 a year in labor turnover costs
through modern employment methods is the record
of a New York City factory recently studied by the
Industrial Bureau of the Merchants' Association.
The plant employs 1,000 operatives. Within two and
a half years the concern has reduced the cost of
labor turnover from an annual rate of $61,000 in
1918 to $32,500 in 1920. This decrease was brought
about by careful attention to personnel problems.
Several years ago the company became convinced
that the constant shifting of personnel was a big
financial leak in its business operations, and ob-
tained an expert to make a survey of the problem.
"They found that every new employe hired to replace
one who stopped work is a loss to the concern of ap-
proximately $50," says the report of the bureau. The
principal items in this bill include the cost of main-
taining idle machinery while workers who have left
are being replaced. Next there is the expense of
advertising for new operatives. This item alone
amounts for this concern to $7,000 a year.
"The replacement figure also includes the cost of
interviewing the prospective employe and investi-
gating references; the expense of a medical exami-
nation, and the clerical work incident to firing and
hiring.
"If the new employe is a beginner, he must be
put through a period of training that is very expen-
sive. Supervising these 'green hands' is an item that
runs into thousands of dollars. In certain cases it
is necessary to release the new worker after it be-
comes evident that he is not fitted for the job for
which he was selected. This, again, is an additional
expense. Moreover, there is a tendency on the part
of a new employe to increase the frequency and se-
verity of industrial accidents, which are a direct
economic loss both to the company and the indi-
vidual.
"This analysis makes it evident that $50 is not an
extravagant estimate of the cost of labor replace-
ment for a semi-skilled worker.
"In the light of these figures, the statement that
'it costs $30,000,000 a year for American manufac-
turers to exchange employes with each other' does
not seem absurd."
THE SUPREME GIFT.
The "Gift Magnificent" is what the Kastner-
Knott Co., Nashville, Tenn., calls the playerpiano for
the sale of which the firm has a club plan. This is
printed this week: "From now until Christmas you
place a small amount aside each week, and on
Christmas Eve your Christmas gift selection is de-
livered to your home. The full amount you have
placed aside each week is credited on the purchase,
price of your choice, and the balance is divided into
monthly payments, payable in 1921."
MUCH CAKE, LITTLE BREAD.
"Too many dealers have too much cake and too
little bread at the present time," said a returned
traveler at Chicago to a representative of Presto
this week. "They have made the mistake of stock-
ing up with high-priced stuff that will not sell and
are short of lower-priced good instruments that
would be easily disposed of. Wherever a man is
pushing the Gulbransen he is not in that fix, be-
cause the instruments are good and priced right."
407 So. Dearborn S t ,
CHICAGO, ILL.
CHAFF BROS.
Pianos and Player-Pianos
tand for
atisfaction and
ervice
Made under a guarantee that
is backed by fifty-two years
of success and satisfaction.
Schaff Bros, instruments are
safe for the dealer to setl
and for the customer to buy.
THE SCHAFF BROS. CO.
EtteblitheJ 1868
Huntington, Ind.
Lyon & Healy
Apartment Grand
Piano
Sole Makers
Chicago
A LIVE LINE FOR LIVE DEALERS
WEBSTER
PIANOS AND PLAYERS
Fulfill Every Promise of
Profit to the Dealer
and Satisfaction to
Hit Customers.
NOTHING BETTER FOR YOUR TRADE
Manufactured by
THE WEBSTER PIANO CO.
450 Fifth Ave, NEW YORK CITY
BUY EBE PLAYER PIANOS—
2469 Third Ave., N. W. Cor. 135th, New York
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
Manufacturer of
PIANO
BASS STRINGS
Published by
Presto Publishing Co.
Our Motto: "He profits moat who serves
best/'
21st St. and Fairmount Ave.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
PERFECT PUNCHINGS
AT
CEGOEPEUCu
137 E A S T 1312 ST.
NEW
YORK
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All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
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• •••I
•
>4POLLO
1 HIGH COST OF HIRING
A NEW FACTORY HAND
9t Suppose ^ M
docs cost us
a little
Tt^lPOLLO PL4NO COMB4NY
-DXII.I1I.
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
Practice Keyboards
Dealers* Attention Solicited.
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 West 6X4 Place, CHICAGO, ILL.
6 7 Years of Impro?ed Effort Are
Behind Everj Piano Turned Out by
CABLE&SONS
THE OLD RELIABLE
ESTABLISHED 1852
Factory and Offices i
550-552 West Mth Street
NEW YORK
EVERY MAN, WHETHER
Directly or Indirectly Interested in
Pianos, Phonographs or the General
Music Trade
Should have the three booklets compris-
ing
PRESTO TRADE LISTS
No. 1—Directory of the Music Trades—
the Dealers List.
No. 2—The Phonograph Directory—the
Talking Machine List.
No. 3—Directory of the Music Industries
(Manufacturers, Supplies, etc., of
all kinds).
Price, each book, 25 cents.
The three books combined contain the
only complete addresses and classified
lists of all the various depart-
ments of the music indus-
tries and trades.
Choice of these books and also a copy of
the indispensable "Presto Buyer's Guide,"
will be sent free of charge to new sub-
scribers to Presto, the American Music
Trade Weekly, at $2 a year.
You want Presto; you want the Presto
Trade Lists. They cost little and return
much. Why not have them?
Items Listed as Labor Waste Are Set Down by In-
dustrial Bureau in New York.
A saving of $28,500 a year in labor turnover costs
through modern employment methods is the record
of a New York City factory recently studied by the
Industrial Bureau of the Merchants' Association.
The plant employs 1,000 operatives. Within two and
a half years the concern has reduced the cost of
labor turnover from an annual rate of $61,000 in
1918 to $32,500 in 1920. This decrease was brought
about by careful attention to personnel problems.
Several years ago the company became convinced
that the constant shifting of personnel was a big
financial leak in its business operations, and ob-
tained an expert to make a survey of the problem.
"They found that every new employe hired to replace
one who stopped work is a loss to the concern of ap-
proximately $50," says the report of the bureau. The
principal items in this bill include the cost of main-
taining idle machinery while workers who have left
are being replaced. Next there is the expense of
advertising for new operatives. This item alone
amounts for this concern to $7,000 a year.
"The replacement figure also includes the cost of
interviewing the prospective employe and investi-
gating references; the expense of a medical exami-
nation, and the clerical work incident to firing and
hiring.
"If the new employe is a beginner, he must be
put through a period of training that is very expen-
sive. Supervising these 'green hands' is an item that
runs into thousands of dollars. In certain cases it
is necessary to release the new worker after it be-
comes evident that he is not fitted for the job for
which he was selected. This, again, is an additional
expense. Moreover, there is a tendency on the part
of a new employe to increase the frequency and se-
verity of industrial accidents, which are a direct
economic loss both to the company and the indi-
vidual.
"This analysis makes it evident that $50 is not an
extravagant estimate of the cost of labor replace-
ment for a semi-skilled worker.
"In the light of these figures, the statement that
'it costs $30,000,000 a year for American manufac-
turers to exchange employes with each other' does
not seem absurd."
THE SUPREME GIFT.
The "Gift Magnificent" is what the Kastner-
Knott Co., Nashville, Tenn., calls the playerpiano for
the sale of which the firm has a club plan. This is
printed this week: "From now until Christmas you
place a small amount aside each week, and on
Christmas Eve your Christmas gift selection is de-
livered to your home. The full amount you have
placed aside each week is credited on the purchase,
price of your choice, and the balance is divided into
monthly payments, payable in 1921."
MUCH CAKE, LITTLE BREAD.
"Too many dealers have too much cake and too
little bread at the present time," said a returned
traveler at Chicago to a representative of Presto
this week. "They have made the mistake of stock-
ing up with high-priced stuff that will not sell and
are short of lower-priced good instruments that
would be easily disposed of. Wherever a man is
pushing the Gulbransen he is not in that fix, be-
cause the instruments are good and priced right."
407 So. Dearborn S t ,
CHICAGO, ILL.
CHAFF BROS.
Pianos and Player-Pianos
tand for
atisfaction and
ervice
Made under a guarantee that
is backed by fifty-two years
of success and satisfaction.
Schaff Bros, instruments are
safe for the dealer to setl
and for the customer to buy.
THE SCHAFF BROS. CO.
EtteblitheJ 1868
Huntington, Ind.
Lyon & Healy
Apartment Grand
Piano
Sole Makers
Chicago
A LIVE LINE FOR LIVE DEALERS
WEBSTER
PIANOS AND PLAYERS
Fulfill Every Promise of
Profit to the Dealer
and Satisfaction to
Hit Customers.
NOTHING BETTER FOR YOUR TRADE
Manufactured by
THE WEBSTER PIANO CO.
450 Fifth Ave, NEW YORK CITY
BUY EBE PLAYER PIANOS—
2469 Third Ave., N. W. Cor. 135th, New York
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
Manufacturer of
PIANO
BASS STRINGS
Published by
Presto Publishing Co.
Our Motto: "He profits moat who serves
best/'
21st St. and Fairmount Ave.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
PERFECT PUNCHINGS
AT
CEGOEPEUCu
137 E A S T 1312 ST.
NEW
YORK
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).