The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-15
FAvORS SLIDING SCALE.
Andrew Carnegie Explains the Agree
ment With His Steel Workers.

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London, May 9.-The annual meeting
IF the Iron and Steel institute here to-
lay was largely attended. After beins
.ormally installed in the chair, the new
president. Andrew Carnegie, remarked
he was the first president Of the in
stitute who was not British subject,
ne presented Sir James Kitson, the for
ner president of the institute, with a
Bessemer gold medal for 1908. Car
aegie subsequently delivered his in
augurad address, which was listened to
with much interest.
Mr.. Carnegie said, in part:
Gentlemen: aly first desire is to than.
you deeply for the honor conferred by
electing me to the presidency, which Is tc
the man of iron and steel the blue ribbor
Of distinctions in the race of life. Beyond
this he cannot CO. for there is nothing
higher, and he must perforce be content
aereafter-from the sublime height-to sur.
vey the plains below.
One of the chief sources of whatever
success may have attended the Carnegie
Steel company was undoubtedly its policy
Of making numerous partners from among
the ableSt Of Its men, and interesting sc
many others of ability In results. l strong
~ recommend this plan to the members
OF the institute engaged in business, be-
1eVing that In these days of threatened
sxhausting competition 1t will be the con-
Germs which adopt this plan, other things
lsh.
Disputes between capital and labor are
always In evidence, but it must never be
forgotten that in the wide fields Of do
nestle service and in that of the few en-
ployes with working master which en-
braces by far the greater number of wage
earners, all Is, upon the whole. satisfac-
tory-there reigns peace, with the newt
able individual exceptions.
We see in this encouraging fact the
potent and salutary influence Of the per-
sOnal element. The employer knows his
men and the men know their employer;
there is mutual respect, sympathy, kind
~ interest and good feeling, hence peace
If owners and officials Of great corpora
tons could only be known to their men
and: equally. important, their men known
to their employees, we should have in that
Troublesome field such harmony as delights
us In the domestic. 1--WE only hate those
we do not know is sound maxim which
we do we'll ever to bear in mind.
If I were asked what was the best serv-
Ice the Carnegie company was ever able
to render the wage-earner, next to giving
steady employment at wages equal to any
l should answer, BY persuading them t
lnsuring living wages, at its works al
Braddock fourteen years ago, which has
given perfect satisfaction from that day
to this and is still in force. and has pro
duced undisturbed harmony between CAPT
tai and labor"
The idea Of making every workman &
capitalist and of sharing large percentages
Of the profits among those rendering ex
the opposition of the extremists on botf
sides. 1t will speak we'll for the new idea
If secuted by the extremists and com
mended by the mass of men who are or
neither dangerous edge, but in the middle
where usually lies wisdom.
Meanwhile, here is the germ of promis
ing plan offered as a solvent for one o.
the pressing problems of our age.