The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-29
PAYS TRIBUTE 70
INDUSTRIAL WORKER
George D. McDiII of Chicago,
Gives Interesting Address
at Local Y. M. C. A.
THE LAB0RERS NEED HELP
SPEAKER SAYS AID SHOULD BE
GIVEN THEM.
THE LABORERS NEED HELP

George D. McDiIl of Chicago. indus
mittee of the Y. NJ. C. A, delivered an
address on THE Association and the
Industrial Workers" at the local Y. M.
c. A. yesterday afternoon at 4:30
O'Clock. He said, in part:
Il wish all presiding officers had my
occupation down so they could introduce
me without mistake. / was introduced in
Chicago by an old gentleman who was
at me, little mixed on what he should
say, he introduced me as the agricultural
secretary of the Y. NJ c. A He thought
l looked like a farmer. Another time
minister told about the new church then
being built, and the various departments
it would have, took a side look 1t me and
said: We are going to have an industrial
department, with a kitchen attached. He
thought from observation that | could
take care of the kitchen end of it.
There are 10000 600 industrial workers
in this country. The industrial worker
Is found in the various trades, in the
forms of transportation, in mining, in
mechanical pursuits, the laborer and the
Immigrant. He is found wherever there
is work to do. The industrial worker is
doing the worlds work today. At times
with discomfort and great risk to life,
he is bringing to you and me the comforts
of this twentieth century civilization. He
is the man who is building the city, who
is laying out the streets, identifying the
city with parks, furnishing the transpor-
tatlOn, lighting, sewer and water SyS-
TENS He is building the home of the
humble Gotta ger and the great skyscraper.
One-tenth of all structural steel workers
of the country are killed each year. and
the average of their working life is only
ten years. Soldiers have a longer life
than that. You will find him in the great
factories and mills that are turning out
the products which we enjoy. He be-
comes in the factories and mills almost
There is a dwarfing of the life physically
and mentally, and sometimes morally, by
this machine-like movement that he is
compelled to make in that form of en-
ployment You will find him in the great
forests, where God gives men health, and
he brings in the yield of the forests, lum-
Der and their allied products. You will
find him in the construction camps for
the bringing of water. for instance, to
the city or for irrigation or power pur-
poses You will find him building rail-
roads and bridges; in oil fields and on the
Panama canal. These are the men who
Well, two-thirds of him is American,
partly black, and nearly one-third of him
is of foreign birth.
Wherever he is together in any consd-
cradle number, in groups, there is need,
and there is a field of the Young Mems
Christian association, for the association
is peculiarly adapted TO meeting the
needs of these men. His capital is his in
duStrial efficiency. Prima rily with the
industrial man, his physical well-being is
probably his greatest asset; and second
ari1y, and yet l would say coordinate
with the physical, is his intellectual equip
mentor today it is the man of some in
tellect and training, as well Is with the
Drawn, that is the best industrial worker.
And next to the physical and intellectual
condition of the man is the recreative
need, is the need from the religious. the
moral standpoint, the need from the So
cial side. And so we find in ministering
to the industrial worker, that he has a
fOur-sided nature. and this is the formula
on which we can work. We would take
physical needs The industrial worker, in
order that he may have the highest eff
ficiency, must be in good physical condi-
ton. we say that the men who are dig
ging tie bitches, who are throwing up
these great skyscrapers: men who are
out in the woods and those who are in
the mines, that they are the men with the
best health. Not always We find that
certain forms of labor have their penal
ties. In a certain camp, when men are
brought to the hospital from the mines
to be operated on, it was found that their
lungs were grayish in color. In the same
hospital the cOw-puncher's lungs are
pink, showing that the air in the mines
affects the lungs and is conducive to
great mortality, appearing in the form
of pneumonia and consumption. Men need
instruction on the care of the body; they
need to know what pertains to health and
what will injure it. In mining camps