The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1914-05-20
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+ The United States Steel corporation
on account of tho odiousness OF its
name, has. been the excuse for design.
ing men to be taken up from obscur'
ity and sent to- the United States
senate. It. is turning out to be diff
ferent organization from what. in the
past, it has had the reputation of be-
ing. AT it's annual meeting few
weeks ago. at which Ebert G. Cary
presided, there were number OF 9TH
er stock holders in attendance whose
names were not familiar to the world
and whose testimony made the steel
corporation appear as an angel OF
mercy rather. than one OF destruction.
These stock holders were employees
of the company and were classed as
"puddlers,"' heaters" and rollers" in
the company's mills. One of the
stock holders who attended the meet
ing was Samuel Wilkinson, who is
a working man in. the Elwood City
steel plant. He came as the repre-
sentative of nine hundred and twenty
one stock, holders who work in that
plant. He reported no complaints and
no, grievances. He said that, one OF
the working men came to him after
he was chosen to attend the meeting
and said that the men thought good
deal of the corporation and spoke OF
the company's Sanitation az saving its
workers from being exposed to;
swarms of insects, to foul drinking
water, to the rain and the snow. He
said he had not come to praise the
company, but its accident prevention
work made 1t safer Tor him and his
fellow men to go to work without TAX
ing their. chances in crossing I'M
guarded tracks. He said that the
safety devices on the machinery were
working finely. =
!. Samuel r. Maitland, another stock
holder. and q water tender at and n
boiler house in New Castle. Pa. went
beyond Samuel Wilkinson's state
ment. He said that the workers at
New Castle are pleased with condi-
lions. The company lots have been
cleaned up by the corporation and
made into parks. There were play
grounds for the children. There we're
visiting nurses. There was safety
contrivance which kept mothers from
having their boys crawl home to them
crippled. There was the pension sys-
tenn. !, An old man meets him on the
street and says. 81 am on the pensions
roll" II believe you ought to thank
God for, that He is not pauper."
A most remarkable thing happened
when this laboring man said in clos
ing: 1--WE ought to look up and thank
God for this great corporation which,
is taking care of humanity in this
large way" and then he said, And
now if you will just bow your heads,
we will offer up little prayer, II that
will be all right" Mr.. Gary. who was
presiding, said, There is no objec-
tion,"" and the, working man prayed
as follows '"Our God, we thank Thee
for these officials and these good men
who have taken, such an interest in
the welfare of humanity, and rejoice
in our hearts for the blessed privi-
lege .of looking UP to Thee in thank
fitness for it. We would pray for
the man who works and, for all who
keep. us together as one great organs
ization. In Thy name We ask 1t.
Amen" 80, e II
Very few people. would believe that
at meeting Of the steel corporation
Where -. .millionaires revel in. their
wealth, that a single prayer, such as
the above, would be tolerated. and
yet the prayer was the .utterance OF,
.laborer of this great corporation
who is also stock holder. We some
times wonder if the. men who snend
their time abusingsthe captains OF in
dustry who have made it possible for
hundreds and thousands of men to
draw good, wages to buy their homes
and to support and educate their fam
lilies, realize the recklessness of their
statements. We believe that many OF
the large corporations are trying to
work out the business problems in
way to benefit their employees as well
as the stock holders. and if these soS
called oracles of wisdom who for po-
litical purposes, are ,denouncing men
who furnish capital and employ labor,
would. step. finding fault they might,
not realize on their ambition, but they.
could do the public good service by
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