The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-28
AMERICAN IRON AND
 STEEL INSTITUTE IS PAID HIGH TR|BUTEBY
 RICHARD EDMONDS
Organization a Marvel, Says Editor of Manufacturers
 Record, and It's Spirit of JusticeInvaluable tOLabor

Atlanta, October 27.-tspeciai.) Richard H. Edmonds, editor of thc Mnnufacturers' Record, who Is spend ing the night in Atlanta on his way to Birmingham to attend the meeting of the American Iron and Steel institute. in m interview for The Age-Hcraid said,
 '',rhe American Iron and Steel insti- tute is probably the most important or ganization in the world, considering the amount of capital represented in its mem steel industry In Alabama. of It's wide notifications upon every other business, and the influence of this organization for constructive upbuilding cooperation on a friendly basis as against cut-throat com petition of former days. Under old con ditions in the iron and steel trade as in many other industries. there was | fierce cut-throat policy which disre sarded the rights of others and which vigorously carried out the doctrine oi every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost.'
 This applied to the laboring people employed in these industries to q very large extent as well as to competitors or rivals. In the days when MT. Carnegie dominated the steel interests of Pittsburg it was notorious fact, generally com- mented upon, that the laboring people il the iron and steel industry lived under conditions indescribably bad. In those days it was always war to the hilt ir dealing with competitors. My speat knows no brother might well have been the motto of some of the leaders in the industry at that time.
 A Marvellous Change
 But in recent years there has been a marvellous change in these respects and 1t has to a very considerable extent been brought about by the leadership of Judge Gary. though many others in the indus try have been potent factors in this revo- lution and evolution. At the Gary din ners, as well as at the meeting of the American Iron and Steel institute. which came into being as an outcome or these dinners, and was organized at one of them by those who were in attendance becoming charter members, the discus sions which nave taken place have been of such a character that it Is an infin- ite pity that everything that was ever said at these dinners and the annual meetings of the Institute could not have been placed before every reader of ev- cry American newspaper. The addresses and the discussions always partook more of the thought of how the working peo- pie could be benefited, rather than how to make money.
 Golden Rule of Business
 Tt is an interesting fact that at one of these meetings one paper by MT. Will lis L. King vice president of the Jones' I.oughlin company, was presented on the Golden Rule in Business, in which he took ethical grounds as advanced as what might be expected from any pull pit Others followed in hearty commen- dation of the position taken hy Mir King g splendid paper and in closing the discus sion on that subject one speaker said What has taken place here today sim ply means the hastening of the day of the coming of the Prince of Peace on earth
 As I listened to MT. Kings speech and
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