Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
JEKYLL AND HYDE

T INVESTIGATIONS of social and in
dustrial conditions IN the cities
a connected with the iron and steel
industry would lead us with great
reluctance to believe Andrew Carnegie
Is Dr. Jekyll of benevolent philan-
thropies and library-glving and a Mr..
Hyde Of business. He and his part
ners to a great extent are responsible
for social and economic conditions in
the cities which grew up around the
iron and steel works of the various
Carnegie firms and the rival firms in
similar lines of industry which for
competitive purposes sought the dis
tricts occupied by the Carnegie con-
Germs, only to fall ultimately under the
control OF the powerful business or
ganization now known as the steel
trust.
In another part OF today's Herald will
be found a complete account of the
results of the remarkable investigation
and of humanitarian recommendations
made by John Burns and Endorsed by
others One of the recommendations
deals with the long hours Of toll to
which the Carnegie workers must con-
sent If their names are to remain on
the pay rolls. There is no reason why
an industry so profitable that Its sur
plus is being expended by the hundreds
Of thousands of dollars in various parts
OF the world should be so niggardly
as to resort to the slave-driving prac-
tice of compelling its men to work
more than eight hours per day. An
other recommendation is that the
twenty-four hour shift be abolished.
There is no economic or industrial
necessity for compelling human beings
to wreck health and imperil life by
wanton defiance Of the rites which
govern sensible living. Long working
days and twenty-four hour shifts are
unnatural and are destructive Of hui
man life and energy. The business
policy which insists on such barbara
ties is sheer slave driving, and is very
far from being consistent with pro-
fessions Of philanthropic principles. A
third recommendation is that the work.
ing week should consist of six days,
and not seven. Mr.. Carnegie has been
more "canny" than Sabbatarian in his
conduct OF his business, and he failed
to recognize the difference between Sat
urday and Sunday when there were
dollars to be made by Sabbath break
ing.
According to the report of the re-
sponsible and conservative inyestiga-
tors whose painstaking inquiries were
conducted altogether with a view to
helping humanity and bringing about
better social conditions, and not at all
with a view to wrecking the reputation
of Carnegie or any one else concerned,
the Carnegie fortune to a great extent
has been founded on the dead bodies
Of fated workmen, while social condi-
tions among the workers have been
SO bad that the homes Of the Carnegie
toilers, the builders of the industry and
the fortune, may be described broadly
as g. collection of slums, in which dis
eases attracted or produced by pow
erty and filth and malnutrition rage,
and In which the mortality among
young infants Is so great, as a result
OF the damnable policies Of Gradgrind
Carnegie and his Internal crew, that
at Homestead, known far and wide as
the scene of a famous strike, ONE
BABY OUT OF EVERY THREE WHO
ARE BORN DIES, a victim to the
Infamous conditions produced by the
despicable and sordid greed and THEW
| ishness of the pseudo-philanthro
whose names adorn libraries, music
halls, and (save the mark hospitals.
While Jekyll-Carnegie receives the
laudations and ovations of his inno-
cent Scots and American worshipers
on both sides of the Atlantic. Hyde
Carnegie wrings dollar by dollar from
the blood and the lives of his fellow
human beings In his Pennsylvania in
ferno, where
Tlrnour Mammon grins a pile of chill
| dren's bones.