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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-04-14

ing inquiry as to the rapid develop
ment the concern made. Yes he
said, Awhen we got to making a
cosnplete auto q week we felt little
conceited at our success, but sales
improved and that was not enough,
and completed one every day, but
that was not enough. Then one ev-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-04-14
SOCIALIST IN THE GAME
Hubert A. Walraff of ST. Paul Files
for Governor As Bull
MOOser

st. Paul, April 4.-Hubert A. Wal
raft of st. Paul, yesterday filed with
Secretary of State Schmahl as can
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-04-14

6x21a inch Domestic Egg, 2Ax1A
inch Domestic Nut, and 6 inch Do
nestle Lump Coal
During April and May. 40 per ton
During June. $3.50 per ton
During Jdly .$1.60 per ton
During August. -. .S1.75 per ton
During September. . /. $500 per ton
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
WORKING IN WINTER UNDEH
HARD CONDITIONS.

II have slept for months at TIME
In tent when the thermometer seldom
got above zero. The only times we
stopped work was when the wind ana
snow were binding, and that was only
five DAYS out OF fourteen months, III
spite of the fact that the work was
done on the Western plains notorious
for their bad winters. The men who
were working on that job were a bet
ter. healthier lot by far than those YOU
find in New Yorks bread lines. but
essentially they were the same men.
The work as carried through at a
protlt to the contractor. You can build
roads in the winter; YOU can build
lcvees in the winter and II won't cost
YOU very much more than IT does In the
summer-ccrtamly not nearly so much
as Il does TO care for an army of un-
employed who are being taught to live
without brking."
The commission before which Mrs,
Atwood appeared and which, she be-
ncvcs, Is taking the longest way round
to get To III destination, rs headed 10y
Frank 4. Walsh, a Kansas city ottor-
ncy, who has an intimate acquaintance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07

but she got the idea. Three days after
her interview with the division super
intenden; she approached him again.
This time she was an employment
agent. She had license and a lease
on a building. She got the contract TO
furnish his men, and by the time stip-
ulated every man was on the job.
Moreover, Mrs. Atwood was on the job,
too. 1t is only within the last two
years that she has settled down. Be
fore that she followed the construction
trains for months and years at time,
living in a box car or tent.
There isn't a state in the Union TO
which she hasn't sent men, and in most
of them she herself has followed the
trail. She followed the White Pass
Railroad across the coast divide of
Alaska into Nome. On the Colorado
Midland Railroad she was working
mile and half above sea level. For
three years straight she camped along
the right Of way of the Union Pacific
while they were double tracking and
STRENGTHENING their line through Wyo-
ming and Utah. For a whole winter,
while the mercury ranged from - de
grees below zero 10 % degrees below.
she lived in a tent. That was when
she was following the laying Of pipe
line i'm Southern Iowa and Northern
Missouri
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
BOOKING MEN WHO TOOK TO
BARS AND BOILERS.

During the shortage Of vorkmcn
Mrs. Atwood visited places which her
own employees passed up. She booked
her men from in front Of bars and
from behind boilers where they were
seeking warmth. Not once was she
molested
During the same period she carried
her own cash box every night from
her Office ten blocks 70 the Illinois
Central She knew that if a man
made that trip unguarded he would
be held mp and robbed, but her con-
idence i'm herself was justified. and
she made the trip in safety night after
night.
i've never seen the man or animal
Yet that am afraid Of" she said,
and that's what counts. You get
about what .ou are looking for in this
world"
\ rule well understood il her Office
is that whenever any trouble threatens
her men employees are to take "A back
seat and leave the situation in Mrs.
AtwOod's hands. She has always been
able to handle it, and boasts that you
could sit in her Office from one years
end 10 another without hearing a word
Of profanity They know / won't
stand for it," she said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07

This l. a problem that we have
made for ourselves, and we should set
about solving it in the simplest way
possible. The unemployable man is not
a natural product. RE is the result OIL
our artificial labor system and our
specious charities. Instead of helpilg
a man to rise or forcing him TO, we en-
courage him 10 fall and stay down.
II don't believe we need states,
churches, charitable organizations or a
convocation of the wise men of the ma
ton to solve the question. The sim
plest way of doing your example Is
usually the quickest. A mile of Stats
ties won't put an unemployed man to
a pauper or a beggar. We have taught
him TO live without work. That was
wrong. We must now teach him TO
work, and the problem that we have
made for ourselves will be solved.
You may think that winter construc-
ton work, such as l recommended
would be impossible. Up at Cedar''
just outside of Montreal, construction
york went on al last winter. Many
kinds of rock, especially that fouhd
about New York work best in the cold
weather. ! followed the construction
work on the White Pass Railroad IN
Alaska when we only had sixty days
of summer. The work went on Just
the same.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
BEST KNOWN AND RESPECTED
AGENT IN COUNTRY.

For five years. while the road TO
Thunder Mountain was under con-
struction. she had charge Of all the
boarding outfits on that division OF the
Oregon Short Line. She built camps
for. fed and cared for from 200 to
800 men all that time. For another
three and hair years she was with
the Tidewatcr Railroad. furnishing all
the men and establishing headquarters
at every camp.
II may not be woman's work, but
she has made it her work. She is
probably the best known and most
respected labor agent IN the country.
Il guess you couldn't find water
tank between here and San Francisco,
she said, where. II ! dropped off a
train. some hobo wouldn't step up 10
me and say: Hello, Mis- Atwood, let
me have a quarter, will you"
She demands consideration 81 Tie
men with whom she deals. and they
give II, for they know that she will
give them Il square deal. Several
Years ago when the supply Of labor
ia the aiddle West was short and the
demand heavy Mrs Atwood WAS IN
Chicago. Labor agents were securing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INTER
ESTEo IN QUESTION.

The federal government at NasllhS-
ton has become interested in the queS-
ton. and Congress has appointed a
safety appliance subcommittee as part
of the House Committee on Interstate
Commerce. while the Federal Indus
trial Commission is debating The
greater advisability of a central safety
museum at Washington or extension
lecture work for safety to be conducted
somewhat as is agricultural extension
work. The New York State Depart
ment of Labor under Commission
Lunch has announced a survey looking
to the Regarding of workers lives II
this state while under the auspices Of
the Pennsylvania State Department o.
Labor and Industry convention on
Industrial welfare and efficiency was
held i'm october. 1913, at Harrisburg.
Within the last two years the safety
movement has attained an interna-
tional aspect, the most prominent Gle
ment so far being the international
C~-ference on Safety at Sea, held IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07

Ut took the United States Commits
sion on Industrial Relations TO
- bring Mrs. :. j. Atwood from her
retirement. She is probably the only
woman i'm the country who makes her
living by furnishing labOrers for rail-
road and other construction work, and
she has been in that business for
TWENTY-FIVE years. For four years she
has been in New York at II state ST.,
with a branch office i'm Chicago.
She was one Of the first witnesses
called by the commission, which began
its hearings in the City Hall on May
IL. Authorized last summer by Con-
gress to inquire into the industrial un-
rest which. voicing itself in strikes,
violence and unemployment, seemed to
Doe general all over the country, the
commission began its work last Janu-
airy. II will probably report 10 Con-
find the fundamental causes Of indus
trial unrest and suggest remedial leg
islatiOn.
The first subject taken up at the
public hearings was that Of employ
ment agencies and unemployment. The
frank advice given by the small woman
who for wears has been one Of the big
ecst employment agents in the cOun-
Try was that the government stop get
ting statistics and provide work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
MRS. ATWooO's ENTRANCE INTO
BUSINESS LIFE.

4 little more than twenty-five years
ago Mrs. Atwood was left widow
with an infant daughter 10 support.
There was also legacy Of 5000 in
oebts which Mrs. Atwood considered
Just debts and for which she assumed
the responsibility. She cast about her
for some way 10 earn a living for her
seff and her child and at the same time
put aside enough 20 make the payment
Of the debts possible within = reason
able time.
The outlook for woman who had
had no special training in any direc-
ton except housekeeping seemed hope
Iczs. She appealed 10 friend, a
diylslon superintendent on the Union
Pacific. He had no suggestion 10 offer
except that within week he must
have several hundred labOrers 10 put
% work al grading.
N YOU we're IN the employment
agency business now, Mrs. Atwood. "
he said, II could help you"
Mrg. AtwO0d knew nothing about the
business, except that license war re-
aglre1. For three days she visited en-
pioyinent agencies and studied their
methods. She ala not admire them,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
EXAMPLE OF THE UNMASCUllNE
BUSINESS WOMAN.

Yet this woman. who reads men at
a glance and puts them in their proper
places without hesitation. Is far from
being masculine. She is merely the
best possible example Of the business
woman. She worked for the ballot i'm
Colorado and has voted there. She has
Il warm spot in her heart for every
waif she runs across. and supports m
her office on state ~. family uf
crippled cats and dogs, whom she calls
her baJics.
South Ferry Is a dangerous place for
fricndlcss aud homeless beastics, but
it has its quota Of strays. Mrs. At
wood shelters them as fast rs she finds
them. Those which she can nurse back
10 good health she finds homes for with
families who Will give them proper
treatment. Those whose injuries are
permanent, though not fatal, she keeps
herself
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07

with us. This system | believe TO be
wrong. 1t is detrimental 10 society
and 10 every individual member of So
cictv. We have no business TO make
our brother pauper, and We are not
only lowering his standard but our
own Wncn we do SO. Every man IN
good health should work; | do not be-
lieye there is a really good idle man
If he has any self-respect he will hunt
work. II he won't do that he is a
menace to the community, and should
be placed where he will be made TO
work.
Il believe that if the United States
government would open up a big piece
of levee work on the Mississippi, where
foods do millions of dollars worth of
damage annually. and would open the
lob TO the army of unemployed every
winter. the unemployed would find
their way to the work. The con-
tractors being done away with, the
work would be done at less expense,
and it would also find a place for the
vast quantity of machinery the gov
eminent will have on its hands when
the Panama Canal is opened.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
DEMAND FOR LABOR IN WINTER
AND SUMMER.

lin the summer months orders pile
up. Letters pour in from every part
Of the United States for labor that
can't be supplied. During the last
winter which was only little more
severe than other winters. ! have cor
responded with every town and city in
the United States. trying to place an
army of unemployed. They are
thrown out OF employment about the
middle of December, and the average
time Of unemployment is about twelve
weeks. although this time was slightly
extended this year because of finan-
cial conditions.
Il have seen but three seasons in
nearly twenty-threc years experience
when the demand for labor continued
through the winter. Then il was gem
cral all through the United States
and not confined to any one locality.
If there really were work i'm one part
Of the country and not In the rest the
workingman who is looking for a posi-
tlDll WOulu Huu iHdl pld'' liiliil'hldA'lN
and drift to IT,
Men do not come to tho large cities
i'm the winter looking for employment.
They come because they are driven
out of the small towns and country
districts. The country does not sup
ply work for the winter, but neither
does il encourage the idle man 10 loaf
during that season. When the work
has ended notice Is served To move
along. There Is NO bread line or mu-
nlcipal lodging house TO make him
lingcr
"In New York, rs in all other large
cities, we are holding forth with our
so-callcd charitable institutions all the
inducements we Gun for the man out
Of employment aud those absolutely
uncmployablc TO spend their winter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
SANITARY APPLIANCES ON VIEW

safety agitator For it was by the
methods Of the dcmagoguc or the rto-
fcssional evangelist that Frederick :.
Hughes began preaching the gospel Il
caution. This unusual man and has
wife we're living in Los Angeles when
they first heard the call One says
they" advisedly, for Mrs. Hughes has
always Joined with Der husband in his
anti-accident crusGues. Through me
country they came, hunting for some
business that needed their services.
1t happened that just about this time
Thomas y. McCarter, president of the
Public Service Corporation of New
Jersey. and his assistants were consid-
cring the safety first question with
great deal Of interest. AS matter Of
fact. arrangements were then under
way for campaign against accident
that would cover the State of Jersey.
MIR. McCarter heard Of the work Of Nj.
and Mrs. Hughes and immediately sent
for them to come East and take a
hand in the saving Of life and limo in
New Jersey.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
PIONEER SAFETY WORK IN THE
EAST.
EAST.

The crusade for safety that was
started upon Mr.. Hughes's arrival was
the pioneer work of this kind in the
East. 1t attracted widespread atten-
ton throughout the state to which it
was confined. but very little publicity
was given to it of a national character,
The first step undertaken by MI.
Hughes and his wife was lecture tour
of the state, the lectures being planned
10 interest school children primarily.
The Safety League of New Jersey was
formed much 70 the delight of thou
sands Of school children, who presently
blossomed forth with blue and red but
tons. the emblem of the organization
In all 10000 school children were
reached by the lectures, which were de-
livered in 522 schools. located in nifty
three different communities. This work
was started in the spring Of 1909.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07

enough, its original starting point was
place popularity supposed TO be dedi-
Gated to fossils and such. ii was in
1907 that Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn,
of the Natural History Museum, became
interested in accident prevention and
permitted small exhibit of safety de-
vices to be held at the museum under
the auspices of the American Institute
of Social Service.
1t was the first time that Americans
were brought in contact with the life
saving enterprises of European indus
try. and the exhibit created an i'm
mcnsc amount of interest for its size.
The Hon. Charles f. Hughes, then
Governor Of New York state, made the
following statement at a dinner at the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
WHERE THE STATE MIGHT GIVE
US A LIFT.

Il should like to see every state
undertake TO grade even a few miles
of public highway during the winter.
II would take care OF most of the idle
men who really want work. Those
who didn't want il could be arrested
for vagrancy and sentenced to ninety
days on the job. Good portable build
ings. blankets and food should he pro-
vidcd. and a system OF advancing SUI
ficicnt credit to permit of the pur-
chase of warm clothing at moderate
prices Only portion of the wages
should bc paid from week TO week,
and the balance should either go to
the mans family or be put aside for
him go that when the work Is done he
viii not be thrown out penniless.
Those who go up for the ninety days
would bcrcht by it. You would be
making workers out of buns and loaf
ers. The heavy expenses of municipal
lodging houses, mi-public charities
and the prison idlcrs would be done
away with.
"Thc prison labor argument doesn't
weigh with me. \ man doesn't stop
being a consumer because ic Is In jail
lie is still man; he isn't out OF exist
cncc II Is his due and right TO earn
his livelihood I don't believe there
is successful reformatory In the
country whore the prisoners are uncm-
poycd. Even insane asylums realize
TINT lnncilNilN is snltldaL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07

who expressed the Presidents great in
tcrcst i'm the work The following let
ter from the President was read by DR..
Strong
As modern civilization is constantly
creating artificial dangers 10 life llMO
and health. il is imperative upon us To
provide new safeguards against new
perils. In legislation and In our use OF
safety devices for the protection OF
worllmen we are far behind European
peoples. and i'm consequence in the
United States the casualties attendant
upon peaceful industries exceed those
which would happen under great ana
perpetual war. Many, even most oil
these casualties are preventable. ana IL
is not supportable that We should con-
tinue a policy under which life and nm"
are sacrificed because it is supposed To
he cheaper to MAIN and Kill men than
to protect them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
VARIOUS SAFETY DEVICES. on EXHIBITION

Waldorf Astoria on the day Of the
opening of the exhibit:
1t is not nattering To our pride that
we should be behind other nations IN
this matter. We are chagrined 10 learn
that. Notwithstanding our skill in in
yentiOn. our industrial enterprise ana
the generous impulses which charac-
tcriZe our people We should have ldllcd
to establish an institution Of such OBJ
yiOus utility until Berlin. Munich, Am
sterdam. Vienna and Paris had set us
the example. Yet We may congratulate"
ourselves upon this suspicious begin
ming. and desire 10 express the nope
that the movement will lead 10 the es-
Establishment upon "A secure foundation
of a museum Of safety and industrial
hygiene which will stand unrivalled' in
the world.
President Roosevelt was represented
at the banquet by Carroll ID. Wright,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
Wishing you all success in your et-
forts, believe me. yours sincerely,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

The people responsible for this first
effort were unwilling to let the enter
prise stop here. In 1905 the exhibit
was moved TO the McGrdw Building
where it stayed for two months, then
being transferred to the Engineering
Societies Building. where it has been
ever since under the direction Of Dr.
William II. Toman, who organized the
first exhibit.
/, is one thing to catch the attention
Of a few farsighted scientists and bust
ness men and another thing TO catcl
the public's imagination, and without
this il would he obviously impossible
to change the life habits of some ninety
million people. At this point one
meets picturesque character man
who might well be called the first
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
SERIES OF LECTURES FOR
GROWN. UPS.

Another series of lectures was then
undertaken TO appeal 10 the adults.
Talks were delivered in churches, de-
partment stores and every public meet
ing place possible. Purchasers PAM
,,blets and various circulars were print
cd to helm out this work, and through
the medium of the department store
and small tradcsmen these were gwen
wide circulation.
Twice a year talks to the Norimen
were also inaugurated and every en-
Move Of the Public Service Company
from conductor and motorman Ic
switch tender is now instructed by the
director Of safety education Of the COM
many or some one OF his assistants
e,arv six months. An effort has lately
been made to get truck owners and
operators interested in the safety
movement. Large placards containing
suggestions to drivers have been placed
in stables and garages throughout tne
state.
Preaching safety 70 the average plain
citizen is probably the most difhcHl,
part Of the new evangel. \ manutact-
urer can more or less compel caution
among his employees; it is question ot
rake IT or leave. But the man on 'he
street will cease being careless only
when he wants to. one method u 'p-
proach is indirectly through the chil-
dren in the schools, and tins mas oech
tried with great success in New YORK
city. This process is both direct ana
indirect. OF course. many street IN
iuries. regrettably, too, happen TO chh-
dren. and it is hoped to decrease tl5
number Furthermore, accepting tnv
fact that habits change very Slowly
the educators hope that by training TIE
children when they grow old they wiz
cease TO jump upon moving cars ana
70 lean before they look. And for the
present it is hoped that the children
will influence their own parents.
Thus work through the schools was
begun about a year ago, through he
cooperation Of the Board of Educa-
ton and the American Museum ~
Safety. the necessary funds beng sup
plied by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company. The method employed was
that of lectures 10 school children and
work now continued by the Brookl;n
Committee on Public safety.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07

Il think this commission is taking up
the question Of Unemployment from the
wrong end said Airs. Atwood. The
only cure for famine is food, and the
only cure for unemployment is work.
: mile of statistics won't help in the
least.
The facts are just these: At one
time of the year We cannot find enough
labor to harvest our crops. and in the
winter the United States has not
enough work 10 support one-half OF
the common laboring class. Winter
work is tride more expensive, and
employers cut out the winter months
from their schedule as far as possible.
Consequently there is either a feast
or a famine for the laborers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
MRS. HARTMAN ONLY MEMBER
FROM NEW YORK.

Mrs ! Borden Hartman IS inc ohN
member from New York. The W me
House conference of year ago. "nieh
led 10 tie amendment OF the Erdmsn
act and the arbitration Of The dema1cS
Of the conductors and trammeu' IS
credited to her.
I'm the group Of labor representatives
are Austin b. Garretsou. James Con-
nell and John b. Lennon. Mr.. Garrett
son is president Of the Order OF Kan,
WAY Conductors. Mr.. O'Conneh Is 'n''
vice-president of the American teder''
ton of Labor Mr.. Lennon is treasure
of the American Federation OF Ldo''
and for years has been am eXecu'''
of the International Union NJ JodIHs'
men Tailors.
u. Thurston Ballard, for many !e"''
president Of the Louisville MsnuidO'u'
ers' Association, is on the commiss''"
as a non-rnion employer. lie VIZ
active in obtaining child labor les'S''
ton for Kentucky.
AS another representative Of the e'n-
ployers the commission has tred'i'y'
4. Delano. receiver and former P''S'
dent of the Wabash Railroad ana Nv
president of the Monon.
Harris Weinstock, a san lran''s>.
merchant, recently returned rom
study of European agricultural So"O>
tions. is the final member ol inc W.
mission. W. q. Thompson, OF Chl''s.
who made peace out OF New iV's
clothing industry strike is counSe! :"