The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-24
She Gets Letter From the Cover
nor's Private Secretary Regard
Ing the Wool Manufacturers Of
Lawrence.
Try MALEsTRoM OF TRAFFIC
INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY
Conditions In Mill Town Where the
Strike is on Show That Working
men Are Not Treated
Right.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
BOSTON, Jan. 24-Wool manufac'
turers at Lawrence are more sollcl-
tious for their machines Of steel than
for the flesh and blood machines that
work as necessarily under intolerable
conditions" according to Dudley Hol-
man, private secretary of Governor
Foss, upon whose orders the former
investigated conditions at Lawrence.
Holman's sensational charges
against the American Woolen company
and other mill interests are contained
in a letter to Miss Mary Boyle O'Rell-
ly, daughter of the famous Irish
author and poet, who denounced the
wool trust in recent article
Holman's letter, written on the Of
ficial state house stationery, says:
my Dear Miss O'Reilly:-
Il wish to thank wou for your artt-
Gle. The human side of the industrial
problem receives generally but scant
attention. Manufacturers are much
! more solicitous for their machines of
/ iron and steel than for the flesh and
4 blood machines that work as incessant-
! ly under conditions that are we'll nigh
I intolerable, for it costs nothing to
replace the worn out human machine,
while to renew the steel machines
means to cut into the dividend rate
Holman then wrote that the divt
dends OF the American. Woolen com
y pany increased sstiaS ner eens sine
1902 and continued:
What dividend increase was ther'
to the wage Garner? Protection Il
sought that they might compete will
the pauper labor of Europe without
lowering the American standard O
J living-God save the mark.
Europe is ransacked for the cheap
est help obtainable. We pauperize
American labor by forcing it to work
down to the level of the incompetent
pauper labor we bring here from Eur
ope
eve protect invested capital, but
} fail to protect American labor BY
. forcing it to compete with 'pauper
, labor which we bring here for tina
: purpose. The only remedy that Is op
en- to us is the education of the pub
| lie as to conditions. Industrial slaV
; ery' is good 1t will be remembered
: 1t tells the whole story in two words
There is wealth of meaning in thos'
two words and thank you for them
q reported to the government tina
as far as could find out, one mai
I was really responsible for the pres
: ent situation in Lawrence. Iivin
!. conditions as he ordained them ar
intolerable A step forward will b
taken when We deprive men like fir
, of the special privilege now accorde
; them by unwise and unnecessary pre-
lection.
please keep on. Uncover cond
tions. Let the whole world know
There is terrible economic vast
when the human part of the machiI
J cry is underfed. underclad, hadl
housed and deprived OF any of tn
comforts and joys of living. II tn
: machinery was not we'll oiled an
: well cared for, some boss would b
d blamed and discharged The right c
J. labor to insist upon its fair share {
I the returns of it's work ought not t
y be denied. It's not charity but justic
; that is wanted.
you are doing a noble work. Kee
ii up and it will bring it's own reward
: Very truly yours,
s (Signed) DUDLEY M. HOLMAN