The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-26

will to look into and improve the con dition of Federal employees. The Ca- nal Zone was naturally chosen as a scene of It's first activities, since that | was the nations biggest enterprise Miss Beeks was sent down to LOOK Into | the working and living condition or the employees, and submitted to MT. | Taft most comprehensive report. | She spent Ave weeks in looking into | every phase of work and every kind of living condition. She discussed m her report street, water, electric light. | and sewerage systems, houses, hospit- als. recreatlons, schools. jails. trans portation and liquor trafac. While many things were highly commended. many were condemned, and her sug- | gestions adopted.
 Welfare work runs the gamut of ef- | fectiveness and varies widely to meet i the conditions of the people for whom | 1t Is devised The Colorado Fuel and | Iron Company has 17,000 men repre- sentinr thIrty-two nationalities on its pay roll. with S0.000 persons dependent | on the wages of these for support. For | these the company provides ktndergar- | tens, elementary, high, industrial and | normal schools, churches, circulating l libraries, hospitals. athletic fields and l recreation halls. the work extending Into four States.
 I | first member of the Welfare Depart naent of the National Civic Federation | he had 5000 employees where now the | International Harvester Company has s0,oo0. all enjoying the benefits that made his earlier welfare work a model widely copied. The Ludlow Manufae- ] turing Associates with 2 yearly prov duct of s5,ooo,o0o pounds of jute bag. ging, yarns and twines, with the most | u "A textile mill in America, have made a model town of Ludlow. and point with pride to the State Savings Bank with it's deposits of over fA00.000, the say. ings of wage earners
 The Pelxer Manufacturing Company Of Pelser, s. C., began It's work among mill operatives twenty-five years ago. The Victor cotton mills at Greer's, s. C.. the Monaghan mills of Greenville, 6. C.. the Proximity mills at Greensboro. N. C., and the Dwight mills at Ala ban1a City, have proved the most up- 1 lifting influence that the poor whites --who usually constitute their force of employes--have ever known. They have taken these people from their worn"out. poorly titled lands. have given them a living wage and have taught them the value of good homes we'll kept. good clothing well made, and good food well cooked, ana have given them educational and social ad- vantaGes before unknown.
 The Plymouth Cordage Company
 with its big library and bathing beach. its model lunch rooms and its indus trial schools: the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. with it's employees bsneht association, providing against sickness accident and death. it's iaun- dry for overalis and its special interest In It's many foreign workers; the Car negie Library of Homestead with it's superior quality of lectures, classes and entertainments; the Gorham Com pany, with its $30,o00 casino for lts employees. and it's benefit associations; the Soivey Process Company, of Syra- cuse, with It's excellent village work for the families Of tho 2.S00 persons who are employed in their works and quar- ries; the Sherwin- Williams Company of Cleveland, with It's emergency hospital and rest room for women employas and its top notch" eniciency system: R H
 Macy 6 Company with their visiting physician and nurses and meal tickets for such of their t.00o employees as need then--all these are proofs taken from few of the many instances of the great uplift that welfare work ia
 bringing to the people of the working world.
 Copyright. 1908. Frederic J. Haskin. )
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