The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-28
EMPLOYER and Employe.

Editor Rutland Globe The great rail-
road strike now going on exceeds anything
of the kind known in the history of rail-
reading in this country, and suggeats very
grave inquiries concerning the question of
labor. 1t does seem to an outsider that our
railroad managers have not shown that
shrewdness in regard to their employed
people which the great amount of capital,
and the important trust of human life CON-
mitted to them, would seem to demand.
Something may be learned from our best
manufacturers of cotton and wooden gOode.
Millions of money are invested in Gotten
and wooden mills. The companies, or cor
porations, owning these mills manifest a
good deal of interest in the moral and re-
ligious culture of the operatives, furnishing
libraries for their use, encouraging the re-
ligious Observance of the christian Sabbath,
often subscribing literally for the erection
of church edifces, and assisting in paying
the salaries of preachers. This course On
the part Of owners brings to their mills the
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prove those of lower grade who may be
employed. Moreover, the agents of these
mills are familiar and courteous to all per-
sons employed; are ready to listen to their
| grievances, and correct abuses that may be
inflicted upon them, whether by overseers
| in the mill, or by boarding masters. The
agent acts more like father in his family,
than higgling, hard, pompous, overbear-
| ing sharper, that we sometimes see strut
ting around severity nine railroad ctlce.
Mill corporations not only provide religi-
GUS accommodations on the Sabbath, but
they furnish homes to their help. And is
not here a hint to railroad corporations
Wherever train stops over night, let
there be true home for those employed
on the Rad. Let good meals be furnished
by the road, charged to the boarder let
there be reading room, filed with daily
papers, books, and especially Bibles, tenn.
perance tracts and temperance pledges,
which our esteemed friend, Rev. Mr.. Stone
of Castleton, will be happy to furnish. lie,
this reading room be furnished free, as 8
parlor for railroad men. And it will pay
it will pay to civilize and christianize these
railroad men. Any one acquainted in those
districts where these great strikes have oc
Cured, knows that too little effort has
been made there to elevate this class of la
borers. intoxicating liquor is freely sold
to them, and in most cases used by them
And when liquor is IN, wit is out The
6ar-room is their only resort when absent
from home. The education acquired in 6
Pennsylvania bar room can easily be guess
ed at by any one who has travelled in that
country. The truth is, our great money
interests in order to be permanently sue
cessful, must be based upon intelligence
and moral, religious principles. Hence
they must be managed by men of goot
principles. 70 bring this writing to clost
let our railroad corporations learn that theil
men have souls; that they need home!
wherever they stop over night; they need
intelligence need books, and papers; neeC
Ssbbaibs in word, need the gospel, t.
save their souls and make them christians
who will not, dare not kill and burn.