The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-11-19
10y George w. Perkins, ~ the
New York Times.)

suggesting one wild experiment after
another, settlement of the multiform
differences between capital and labor
nevertheless is proceeding steadily.
This important work in the worlds
progress is being achieved by the sim
pie Yet sovereign process If continu-
aus and frictionless adjustment. 1t
is silently developing triumph of
practical Christianity. Noiselessly
smoothly. increasingly, IL goes forward,
and IL is not To he swerved nor stopped
by the hNsteria of fanatics. 1t is ir-
Iesistble because il is "A world force
always gathering impetus from the
onward march of civilization.
This resistess adjusting influence
is the great industrial movement of
the Young Mems Christian association.
II has been going on in New York and
| hundreds of other cities and towns
Tor years, Vet SO quiet has been its
course that few persons outside the
! thousands effecting il or affected by
II have had knowledge of it's existence.
The associations industrial move
ment has for its noble purpose recon
Citation, unitication. and standardized
ton of the interests of employer and
employed. 1t aims To make the man
who has work 10 be done understand
the personal needs of the man who
does the work, as well as To teach the
worker that he cannot be successful
IL he attempts to separate his rights
and duties from those of the man who
pays his salary. This great object is
achieved, not by detached disserta-
| tons, not 10y uite tracts, not by top
lofty p"dagogic methods, but by intel
J ligent blending and development of
elemental human sympathies.
BY this process it is impressed on
the man who has or is To have the di-
rection of employees, whether his own
or another's, that the toilers at bench
| or machine or coke oven are not mere
industrial units, To be disposed of by
Il refrigerated system of logarithms,
but are human beings, each with his
own ambition, his own affections his
own burdens and hopes and fears and
disappOintments.
on the other hand, it is borne in on
the worker that his employer is not
merely taskmaster, a cash register
a remorselcss arbiter of his destiny,
but mana creature of flesh and
blood like himself who has trials of
his own, aspirations that may be of
major Importance to the world at
large. and responsibilities. both com
mercial and domestic. which must be
met as ineXorably as those Of the
most obscure marchers in the rear
ranks of the mighty army of industry
A Nation Wide Movement
The great Industrial movement Of
the Young Mems Christian association
has a nation wide range. 1t deals with
the iron and steel industry of Pitts
burgh and Chicago; the cotton mill
villages of the south; the sawmill
towns and Jogging camps of Missis-
sippi, Maine, Wisconsin and many
other states; the mining communities
Of Tennessee and Idaho; the construc-
ton camps that dot the map of the
whole United States. and the pulp and
paper industry in New England and
Canada
In furthering this extensive move
ment, which differs from all ordinary
methods Of uplft work, the Young
Mems Christian association has made
careful and scientific studies of the
home life, the work life. and the recre-
ative life of men and boys in the in
dustries IL also has studied other
g
ngmen with the idea of operating
with and reinforcing all efforts made
for that purpose. The object of the
ORGANIZATIONS activities along that line
is TO assist men and employ ers i'm all
form of successful welfare work
The plan in all cases is TO make the
men themselves, rather than the em-
ployer, the chief means of their bet
teIment. TO that end it provides for
the physical intellectual, social. and
religious Improvement of workers.
not only does IL look after American
employees but ii also deals effectively !
with the worker who does not under
stand English. II teaches him u
speak the language Of this country, to
citizenship, and to attain II higher |
plane of living and industrial eff
cheney. Ii reaches the men and boys |
of the various industries through local |
and state associations, and also |
through a corps of secretaries of the |
International committee. BY these |
means IL is able To investigate and |
make reports on individual factories, |
mining towns, lumber camps, and |,
other industrial centers throughout
the country.
Both Employers and Employed Help |
So far as financial assistance is |
concerned, most of il comes from the |
workers. When "a business concern |
gives a generous check to establish a |
new vantage point for the movement, !
the contributions from it's employees in
variably total a larger amount. This |
is one of the wholesome features of |
the big undertaking-that it is financ
ed by the employed as well as by en-
ployers. A movement always is health
Ter when it's roots strike deeply In the
hearts of the people.
The initiative in the enlargement of