Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-06
Peoples
RoSt
safeguarding workers Interests.


Newark, Dec. B.
Sir-Few persons in our State who
are not scientific engineers or mem
bers of the medical profession nave
a profound knowledge of what has
been done by our enlightened ano
leading manufacturers n merchants
within a few years to make the best
possible use of the sciences for max
ing life healthful and uplifting tor
their fellow workers.
In talking with a New York city
capitalist today. who has ecently
established in Newark a manufac-
turing plant with several hunoreo
employees, and which is to be IN
creased to 1000 hands when the pro-
posed new mandatory shall nave
heen built in this city, he said that
he and his associates, before decld-
ing upon a place to begin this IN
dustry, visited many towns ana
cities. They were finally convinced
of the soundness of the arguments
advanced by the Newark Board OF
Trade hat Newark has all the al
yantages that any other place IN the
nation has. and some advantages OF
great value that are to be found IN
no other industrial city of the ma
ton.
This newcoming concern in our city
ma VS. high wages to most of its work.
ers. and to the few employees VINO
are rated as laborers it pays the
going wage, and gives the laporers
who have reliability a chance to learn
a trade. Quite a number or the
Young mechanics earn from $40 10
s35 a week-a number earn from sat
TO $50 a week. The latter are hlgn-
grade d~ie-sinkers and model-makers'
mostly Essex and Hudson county
artisans trained in shops like Til
fany's, the Central Stamping Com
pany. Manning, Maxwell. Moore
Company, and other shops here
abouts.
This new concern purposes to have
its new plant embody many new
ideas In sanitation, lighting, heating
| safety and comfort for fellow work
ers. AS the technical editor of ar
engineering publication. 1 was calico
before the directors of this corpora
ton to report upon what existed al
the best types of far-advanced gooc
and welfare work through the ap'
n1ied sciences in the best carried OF
manufactures of the nation, and als(
as to the application of the colder
rule in relations between capital ant
labor.
1 told these gentlemen that 1t wal
not necessary to go further ava!
than Newark and vicinity to see In
dustrlal establishments which ar
carried on in accordance with all tn
light which Almighty God has re
vealed to His children in the direc
ton of industrial and mercantil'
establishments. 1 escorted a com
mjttee of the directors of the neV
local industry oyer several loca
plants.
Let me give the main points o
two of these plants. A mechanical
plant: Factory planned by eminen
architects and engineers, put up b.
the very flower of mechanics of SIX
ty-seven trades; none but NeWarker
among the planners and builders
The building is heated and ventllate'
by the same system i'll use in tn
palaces of our richest multi-million
aires. The same applies to the light
ing, which was supervised by an EN-
inent local oculist.
The sanitary toilet rooms are ia
better than those of the Whit
House; the recreation rooms for tn
noon hour and the room for first al
to the wounded are remarkable 70
their appointments. The corporatio
serves two clean towels a day to eae
employee. There are committees c
men and I'M employees to g
about to the boarding-houses an
homes of the workers and see II a
is as 1t should be and to keep tn
people we'll and happy.
Cross or profane words to EN-
ployees by managers or foremen
strictly forbidden; nobody is dis
charged without a good reason. If tn
first three offenses a be over
looked they are forgiven-after ad
monition. Superannuated employee
are pensioned.
The dull season of manufacturing a
this big plant that employs In a bus
year more than 1000 men and won
en-, s-ynchronizes with the seaso
when there is high activity in a greg
retail store in New York which th
stockholders own In its entirety. A
this time the concern, instead {
laying off many factory employees
takes them on in the New York stor
in various capacities, selling, shir
ping and travelling out of town wit
very valuable packages. Few {
, these factory hands earn at the
. trades less than $25 per week, viii
many of them are paid from $50
/ 500 a week. The superintendent RI
ceivcs SIS, 900 a year.
Tho Newarkers who go over to IL
. New York store in the Christina
season receive their full factory pa,
e fare to and from Newark, togeth'
with a dollar a day each day for IL