The Bessemer indicator., 1894-02-24
IT'S RETROGRESSION
so SAYS AN OLD STEEL
WORKER.
A comparison between the steel works
in the former days and nova man
who has worked theIe and knows
the whereof Of the situation has
something to say.


EDITOR INDICATOR have noticed
your criticisms in the columns Of
your paper regarding the manage
ment of T W Robinson and treatment
of the men employed in the steel works
After reviewing the condition of Affairs
| find your criticisms Just The posi-
ton you are placed in it is your duty to
advance the best method possible for
and it IS the duty of the citizens to aid
yon when you do it in a Legitimate way.
| will give you my reason for Judging
as do We will start as the works
were ten wears ago. There WAS one
bias, furnace converter, rail mill. spike
machines foundry, machine shop, black.
smith shop. brick yards, carpenter and
| cooper shop. All of these were looked
after by General Superintendent Jones,
Assistant Rees James W J Ripley at
blast furnace l. ]. Taylor master
mech snic. Adam Kuntz boss bricklayer,
and j, X. Dempsey had charge of the
brick yards and all outside work; C. <.
Allen was paymaster and did all the
! Office work with the telp of two or
three clerks. Well was the plant
managed for they made the hest iron
/ n a ha ha.
steel ever laid for wheels to roll on.
Hen and management working hand in
hand and company making money,
everybody prosperous and centented.
their word as good as their bond Is is
SO now doubt it As gres, many
of the old men are still here it mus, he
the fault of the management and the
blame must he laid where it belongs for
the hardship and misery in our little
city to-day
Compare it then and now One year
ago last November he came. the great
| am 10 make new dollar for An old
one Has he done it, one short
wear and $2s5, 900 blast furnace
blown in, blown out for repairs-cost.
several thousand dollsrs-blown in now
ag ain ready 10 blow out again for
provsments" and is necessary to com.
pete with our competitors The new
blooming mill table and one oil furnace
10 aid in rehsating, we had ON hand
when We shut down
The above improvements with u few
thousand dollars worth of cold ingots
are all that know Of on the steel side
in his time On the iron side, puddle
mill idle since last June. bar and guide
mill ekisg out living as best they
can, for the material they handle is the
poorest of the poor. In days gone by
they handled only the best
SO, Mr., Editor you can see that
now have gone over the works from
away back. The selling price was
about the same as now Then why
this reduction Of As per cent all around
Compare T VS. work with l. Groves
Mr.. Grove must certainly have made
many a new dollar for an old one to
justify the company in making the i'm
provsments they did in his time. And
We found him man of his word build
ing up and progressive. Why does Mr
Robinson nnd it necessary to black
list the old men and import new ones7
Are they like his improvements Is he
and his army Of costly subordinates and
working men = good investment, |
think not.
You are right when you say there is
something that Bsssemer needs more
than annexation with Pueblo-some.
body who knows how to run the steel
works, and we need no, send out of the
state to get some one am well
/ pleased to see that the people are with
you in showing this man up in his true
color
Nost respectfully,
I an =,