The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-20

ham will be the richest municipality in
the world, with no need of ievying a
| cent of taxes.
Glasgow has Wed with birmingham
! in socialist advances. and she is so
progressive in her business e-terprise
and growth of population TO be
properly called the European Chicago.
Besides owning all the ordinary public
works. she owns and operates the street
cars, the slaughter houses and the
, markets. She owns about 5000 first
| class tenements where once stood the
! pest breeding stun; she conducts lodg-
| ing houses and a home for widows with
children.
..Lordon has had a iistinctively So
cialist administration for ten years.
The tramways have been acquired,
central parks opened. direct employ
ment established and some Roadway
made towards acquiring the numerous
water and gas works.
In this country, many cities nave
taken over the waterworks, notably
Kansas City after long legal battle
Mobile, failing to buy an old works, is
now constructing a new system. Den
YER has obtained an enabling act au-
thorizing bonds to buy or build A very
large number of cities have built or
bought electric lighting works. De-
I troit has secured authority TO buy the
street car system, and commission
I with Governor Pingree at its head has
been appointed to negotiate the pur-
chase. Toledo reelected its pronounced
Socialist mayor, Jones, by the aston
| ishing vote of two to one against his
two opponents combined. Des Moines
reelected Mayor McVicker on mu-
nicipal ownership issue In Chicago
every candidate for mayor was pledged
to municipal ownership of street rail-
r-a-alaCfpd in
San Francisco on the same issue. Hav-
erhill, Mass, elected a Socialist mayor,
Mayor Quincy of Boston is favorable to
municipal ownership. Boston receives
large net income from its tunnel
through the city for S rect railway USE
Profit Sharing In Soap Making
Proctor and Gamble. makers of ivory
SOAP were among the first manufac-
turers in America to adopt the profit
sharing plan They have for several
years, at the close of a good season,
paid to each employee an additional
sum, equal to 10 per cent of his wages
for the year. There have been years
when the total amount divided in this
manner reached 100000. The atten-
tion of this company has been recently
called to the newer method of sharing
prosperity with the employees. Some
of the officers and directors have visited
the National Cash Register company
and have learned that $4,000 spent in
common. in organizing and developing
lasting benefits for the community, in
providing pleasant and healthful work
rooms, and educational advantages for
the children of the employees, produce
much greater results than four times
that amount spent in the old way, and
they are now considering plans for in
Producing this new method.
NJ 70 0fI1
has found that very large element
in its success has been the clean and
well-ventilated buildings, the pleasant
place provided for the employees to
spend the noon hour, and the light and
cheerful atmosphere of the whole fac
tory and it's surroundings. It is the
intention of this company TO greatly
extend the benefits devised for the peo-
pie in its employ.
Have Built a Town.
The Ernst Clothing company of New
York. which until the present has paid
several millions a year TO sweat shop
managers for ready made clothing, has
built the town of New Orange, New
Jersey, for the express purpose of i'm.
proving the condition of the people who
make the clothing it uses. Several
large factories and 800 houses have been
built on ground ideal in its location.
and to this village the toilers of the
sweat shops are being lured by wages
nearly double what they have received
before. The president of this great
concern has removed with his family
into the heart of the new community.
and is there organizing social classes
for study. kindergarten, cooking
school. night school and a college, all
of which are free to the employees. The
hours of labor have been reduced from
sixteen, now common in the sweat
shops, to eightsfor women and nine fer
men. The pretty homes are rented to
the workers for IS and s. a month
with the privilege of applying the rent
to the purchase price, which Will allow
a man to buy a house in eight years.
Everything is being done to elevate ard
humanize a class that heretofore has
known nothing but unremitting toll
and yet the company removes the work
beyond the old notion of philanthropy
by figuring a profit of 10 per cent on
the investment. The village has been
constructed under the guidance of
committee appointed by the American
Federation of Labor and the union label
is upon every garment.
Typewriters Comparatively Made.
The makers of the Remington type
writer, about five years ago, began to
consider the comfort of their employees
in connection with the development of
business. The factory was thoroughly
cleaned and perfect system established
to keep it SO. Relays of men go through
the entire plant three times a day
with brooms, cloths and wet sawdust.
and each floor with its machinery and
tools is kept in perfect order. The win
dows were enlarged, leaving only the
smallest possible portion of the walls
remaining so that insthe summer the
factory is as cool and pleasant place
as can be found. Modern bathrooms
have been provided and furnished by
the company with daily supply of
soap and clean towels. Large dining
rooms have been equipped with ranges
and the necessary utensils for cooking.
The result is felt in better labor. bet
ter machines and a better moral at
mosphere II is the desire of the officers
of the company TO have the factory
become. the center of the movement to
reform the entire town of lion. The
company has recently entered politics
for this purpose. and is seeking to gain
control of the village government in or
der to beautify the place and establish
a better system of education
1t is not alone in the manufacturing
field that the new movement is felt. 1t
has spread into every province of en-
deavor. Bolton Hall, son of the late
DIR. John Hall, and himself a well
known lawyer of New York, has been
testing remarkable plan in Brooklyn
and other cities whereby every man
becomes his own landlord. The first
step is to place value of ten times
the annual rent ON the rented ground,
and buildings. Then the united tenants