The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-26
MT. Warner Is Right--If Bridgeport Is To Retain It's Skilled W0rkmen II
 Must Be Made More Attractive

Must Be Made More Attractive
 De Yer H. Warner, head of the great Warner Broth CTS Company says that Bridgeport facing grave crisis it's growth due the lack of skilled help available bringing in enterprises, since help So difficult to obtain says that his company wants 300 600 girls who available and says that it will be this scarcity of abor to build branch factory Chicago, although the money and the forth coming build it Bridgeport. His conclusion IS that Bridgeport ought to be made attractive to the work ers and he suggests certain of increasing the at
 There is not thoughtful man in Bridgeport who will sensible of the thoughuness and provision of MT Warner, in opening this question.
 R hs5 s Isqs I as1a es nesn sdngRs td make Bridgeport attractive city to live in.
 MT. Warner believes that the city should be made attractive by permitting Sunday baseball and hay
 This is excellent as far as it goes But no workmen ever vet left city in numbers because of Sunday baseball nor because of deficiency in parks.
 From the beginning of history men have gone from
 The emmgration of skilled workmen from Bridge port today inspired by the motive They where and lower cost of living Those are the three principal advantages which sought.
 Bridgeport must meet the wage scale of the West. It must pay the wages paid in competing cities if it poets to keep the best workmen
 ing shorter hours to its wornen must LEAD the rest of the country.
 If the wages are the same in Bridgeport and there hour day here and eight hour day, a nine hour day, in Detroit Detroit il in few get the best There is doubt about this. All human
 LOW COST OF LIVING is an important element. This may arrive by higher wages, or by food housing and the same.
 Detroit furnishes object lesson, which it will be well enough to heed since Detroit than any other western city has drawn it's supply of skilled Vorken
 Wages are higher Detroit, hours are shorter, housing is better and the cost of food islower.
 mere glance at the figures for housing will suffice Detroit has than four times the popula of Bridgeport It is the rule the larger city is the dem it's population and the persons living in each dwelling in it.
 But in Detroit less than six persons occupy dwell ing, while in Bridgeport the figure is almost sit uaon which bespeaks lower rents and opportunity for workngmen to their homes.
 The lower cost of living may be emphasized by com parison of certain services which immediately and gem erally reach the pocket of every householder
 Detroit it's electric light plant, and rescues it's citizens from private monopoly at that point.
 Detroit owns it's water works and the ordinary family in Detroit pays for water less than onehalf of
 Trolley tickets are sold at three cents each in Detroit which helps to distribute population and make housing easier
 Gas sold eighty cents per thousand feet instead
 Taken together these facts the steady odus of skilled of high intelligence and initiative
 Lower hours, higher wages, better homes cheaper transportation and cheaper water, gas and eectrcit with cheaper food, powerful incentives.
 Moreover western employers more liberal in the treatment of their help and Russian methods less prevalent
 The black list, census of employees, which is so popular in the East has gained much less favor among employers the West and systems of espionage
 MT. Warner directs attention to real need which requires real remedy, but that remedy will not by permitting baseball Sunday, nor by improving the
 To keep it's skilled help Bridgeport must offer such help conditions and down the line, good the conditions offered in competing cities
 We believe the progressive manufacturers of the East realize the necessity here outlined and confident that within the next ten conditions will be improved share of the best zvorkmen
 MT Warmers difficulty seems to be not only short lad IT4%a c1O oF hoo