The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-12-22

It's pity we haven 'tmore employers
like the famous Krupp,'s remarked tbs
nat manufacturer
Well we have a few" remarked a
gentleman who had kept quiet until
this time. I chance to represent a
Chicago firm that does a business OF
/ forty to fifty million dollars year
The head of that esta blishment is still
| living. Nearly 80 years ago, he too
was man who worked for his daily
wage as a steam filter. You never
heard of strike in his estab-
lishment. His men love him as the
Essen workmen loved Krupp Why,
| last Christmas he didn't send to each
of his Workmen a razor breasted tnr-
| key-not much! He distributed among
/ them quarter of million dollars in
cash!
1T so happened that I, myself, was
the one first called upon, many years
| ago, to pass around the checks when
the head of this plant first concluded
to make this distribution of share
Of his profits When I handed the
checks to the first few they wanted to
know what they were for / said.
Well, boys, it's Just a present from
the old gentleman. You've been good
and faithful during the last year and
he appreciates it and wishes you to
have this for a. Christmas present.
DO you know couldn't go down the
line very far. simply had to quit.
Why, that whole factory force sudden
ly became as solemn as if attending
funeral. | want to tell You that when
men weep there is something doing.
Yes, sir; there were scores of men, that
day, who actually cried when they re-
ceiyed those checks and knew they
We're free gifts. You can bet there
isn't any strike in that establishment
because every man feels like the estab-
Gshment is his own"
Q
You bet he pGrsues the proper pol
Icy, spoke up a man travelling for a
Boston extract house. There's Tom
Walsh out in Colorado-you've all
heard of hin-he's living down in
Washington now in the finest residence
in the city and entertaining all the
cream of aristocracy that drifts over
this way. Why. that fellow is one of
the biggest hearted men in the world
and one of the broadcast gagged
Stood by Old Acquaintance.
Why, do YOU know, one day the po-
lice arrested an old man in Denver
who was drunk and half delirious.
When they put him in the jug, he kept
saying to the jailer. Just tell Tom
Walsh that Dime in here and Tom'll
get ME out all right The jai1er
thought his prisoner was only pipe
dreaming, but as the old man insisted
on it SO strongly. he took his name and
sent a telegram down to Mr.. Walsh in
Back came a reply at |
once and one of Walsh's friends in !
Denver went down to the calaboose
and got the old man out
sAnd the funny thing about this. too, |
was that the old man had a trunk /
away down in Texas somewhere that I
contained lot of ore samples. He
had worked for Walsh 20 years be-
lore. The ore was rich, and if I mis-
AXE not, Walsh Is developing one of
hose mines right now and will make
he old man rich again before he dies.
But that's not what was going to
say. Walsh treats his miners better
han any man in the world. When all
# this strike trouble was going on in
year or two ago. you didn't
lear OF the men at the Camp Bird 60
ng out, did you? Camp Bird, you
NOW, is the Walsh property.
Il happened to be up at the Camp
Bird one day and the foreman told me
low the men acted when the question
vas up as to whether or not they
hould go out on strike. Every
nother's son Of them went down six
a1les to Ouray where the meeting was
0 be held. One or two agitators had
up their sleeve to get the men out,
ut they themselves took hold of the
meeting and decided that they would
ot go out on Tom
fen's Comforts Considered.
You just ought to go into the store
oom OF that boarding house up at the
line. There you would see stacks and
lacks of the very best food that can be
ought. The kitchen is kept as clean
$ new tin pan. The miners don't
eep in dirty hunks but they have
omfortable beds. In the boarding
ouses there are plenty of bath rooms
nd when the men come out of the
lines, Walsh has other men take their
ID wet clothes and hand them their
~ ones. [ once heard him say, Why.
hen my men come from their work
I'D go to dinner. want them to go :
cling like gentlemen
THAT sounds all very NICE half t
leered the maker of shoddy cloth. o
tut don't believe it will work. t
mt see how one can afford to look
ter his workmen and pay them these
gh wages you're talking about. That's
| visionary This manufacturer was II
most making himself an unweleome o
TEST in this little party and the hat n
anufaeturer blurted out to him, ssAht =
'uf views are entirely too narrow. G
mt blame you bit, though, for II O.
Mess I had great deal to learn s.
hen I went into my fathers factory. se
hadn't been there a great while when IL
ere was strike threatened. My ia o.
er thought of course that the men a
ould go out as they had done many NJ