The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-04-04
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charges made by Mr.. Gompers against
the L. s. Steel Co. and other special
reference to conditions which prevail
In Gary. First / would say, / admire
and respect Mr.. Gompers and to him
from every laboring man all honor is
due. for what he has done and is trying
10 do. He has been getting information
from source which is not reliable
1t may be true that the Indiana steel
company employ 40 policemen who wear
police uniforms. These men are watch
men, having police authority within the
plant just the same as they do in the
Standard Steel Co.. the Western Steel
Car and Foundry and many other large
plants, These men do not stand at the
entrance guarding the place as If it was
prison during certain hours of the
day when the eight or ten thousand
men are going to work. Two of them
stand at the entrance, one on each side
of the entrance which is about 10 feet
wide to turn back any man who is
drunk and therefore liable to get in
Jured while trying to work. After the
men get inside the yard they go to
certain place where they get card
with their number on, they put it in
time clock which registers the hour and
minute they were in. If a man wants
| to get out before the day is finished he
goes to his foreman and gets a paper
stating the time he quit work this he
leaves at the entrance so that the time
keeper can check up his time, If he
| finishes the day he gets his card and
registers out If any man wants to
quit altogether all he has to do is to
go to the timekeeper and ask for his
time which he gets and no questions
a ask cd 10
ment to the paymaster who gives him
all his money That is not slavery"
| or red tape.
1t is not true that the company herd
ten or twelve men in one room There
may be rooms where too many men are
i crowded | know of one such room, but
the company does not own the house.
the fact is the Polish, Slavish and other
foreigners prefer to so live. They do so
wherever they are, that is a matter for
the board of health. 1t is true the COM
pany own several houses Every house
or fiat has a toilet and bath and is con-
nected with the sewer and should own
more such houses. There are also
boarding houses owned by the company
have lived in one nearly a year, the
one my room is in is one of a groupe
of four all under one management In
oiiC VI AAC lOuR 10 tllt OiiiCG, ulniIl z
room, a kitchen, also toilet and bath
room and large sitting room on the
first floor. On the second floor are
sleeping rooms, toilet and bath. The
other three have on the first floor a
large sitting room, toilet, bath and
sleeping rooms, second floor the same
excepting the sitting room. All the
bath rooms have tub and shower
arrangement with hot and cold water
The sleeping rooms are 12x12. two
. single beds In each, the bed clothes
are changed every week and sthe floors
are scrubbed each week. The food Il
. clean, wholesome, abundant and wet
cooked.
One of the noble forty police goe.
through each house every hour during
the night so that the slaves" may no
be burned alive. The manager Mr. Mar
tin is an experienced hotel man, always
, pleasant and looking after the com
fort of his boarders, If any one cares t,
verify what l have said call on Mr.
Martin any time. he will treat 70,
kindly and take you through tn,
houses. In regard to the hospital yo,
have in your paper described it yer.
well. 1 had wound dressed by tn
resident doctor when he was in a small
a building in the yard he did it tender
I ly and skillfully as it could have bee
I done. The patient is not confined t
p one dressing of a wound as is the cas-
r by many companies but going on
T he will notice a sign saying Come bacl
I he will be cared for until cured"
: Regarding the other charges as t
controlling the Land Company, Ga
| Company and many others to the in
jury and damage of the laboring ma
l know nothing, if the U s. Steel Cs
o have violated any law let them pay tn
r penalty, but if the information upo
r which those complaints were based
Ia no more correct than 1T was in regar
= to the other charges (and I assume
n came from the same source) tehn
don't take any stock in 1t. | for on
am no slave" E. K. HUNTER