The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-06-04
In the Various Avenues Of
Manual Toll.
men Who WORK WITH HANDS
And Are Competent, Never
So Hard To Employ AS
AT the Present.
PARTICULARS OF THE MATTER

The output of steel in the United
States will in future be largely
limited by the supply of labor.
This statement comes to me d.
rect from the President of the
Carnegie Steel Company. The scar
city of iator is a far more serious
problem for all steel and iron max
,ssrs, and also of railroads, than any
one who is not directly connected
with such industries can imagine.
/ know that the manager of one
Yssteel concern went to New York to
secure 200 foreign laborers as they
BANDED, and he came back with
eight. The big railroads have
scouts going about the country con-
'.sxantly trying to engage unskilled
Saborers. Their reports concur in
%he assertion that labor was never
before so scarce in the United
sSfntss, Notwithstanding that never
before was such big pay held out
AS an allurment for even the COM
Nnonest of common labor.
No man need be idle for an hour
pG7ozy unless he wishes to be.
.TheTa. is much more work to be
.aioDt in the State of Pennsylvania
than there are men to do it. The
S1sn1s and not of trained artisans.
'Bie need" said one of this
NouEsry's largest employers of men
Eo me, in discussing this labor
EnuItne, private soldiers and not
Generals. although of course, there
Us always room for a General if he
Us slig enough. But the supreme
siflculty is in finding men to ham
s1le pick and shovel or do the most
ordinary kinds of manual work"
This country every once in a
while gets excited about the big in
Tug of foreigners. The truth is
chat tho United States needs more
of them than are coming. Ameri-
CONS refuse to become white wings
I'm city, or lay tracks on rail-
3ccz3. or carry pig iron in mill. In
ssovne parts of the land it is prov
ing more difficult each year to in
siuce native Americans to work on
the farms.
lanes ]. Hill says the only men,
are facing the great wheat country
OF the Northwest is the scarcity of
{aborers.
Each wear the average pay of or
binary labor advances a little bit; ,
and each year, with normal condi- :
lions. the number who are ready to
work grows smaller
Large employers of labor have
extended their Investigations across
che Atlantic to see if anything has
become radically different with the
source of Americas supply of I'M
ployer informs me that Germany
mas gone down into Italy to entice
labor to her great iron plants and
offers them inducements to stay
AVA tHr litfu Dldtto. tnio
is partially responsible, for. the ex- r
traordinarily rapid growth in Ger
many's population in recent years.
France and England have no la
Dor 10 export. The Scandinavian
men who come here usually drift to
our Northwestern States.
The great increase in the armies
of Europe in the past few years has
kept from the United States per-
haps half a million able-bodied
workmen. With such a vast num-
Der of soldiers in Europe with
drawn from industrial pursuits,
there has been created a better de-
mand for workers on the Continent
than has ever before existed. This
is the report which comes to me
directly from those who are having
In this State the most serious diff
Sulties in getting men.
To show how the German tide
has stopped flowing this way it is
only necessary to quote figures.
Thirty years ago 100000 Germans
were coming to America each
rwelvemonth. Last year under 49,
900 came. Germany never before
host so few of her citizens as she
did in 1912. Reasons? Better
wages for workmen and compul-
sory service in the enlarged army.
There Ia scarcely a track foreman ,
an the Baltimore and Ohio or the /
Pennsylvania Railroad from here !.
~ Chicago who does not need more
men than he now has in his gang.
v know that the steelmakers In
Pittsburg. or at least | have the