Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-05
CTTY'S BIG BUSINESS
OUTLAWS BOOZE;
DRINKERS CARELESS
Manufacturers Declare
Drink Lessons Efficiency
of Employees and Contrib
utes to Accidents.

Big business in Philadelphia has out
Iawed rum.
Manufacturers here, at a time when
aghtinr nations declare liquor has no
Mace in war, add their testimony that 1t
has no place in peace.
drinking increases the number of in
austriat accidents, decreases efficiency and
lessons reliability, according to executives
Of some of the largest enterprises in in
dustrlal Philadelphia.
Alba 3. Johnson, president of the Bald
win Locomotive Works, went so far as
20 saw. when asked his opinion today,
that no manufacturer can consistently
edvocate measures for continuing the sale
of lluuor while discriminating against
men who use It, as majority OF employ
ers Of labor do
I1verv manufacturer" said Mr.. John
son. "has a strong interest in promoting
sobrletys among his employees. The de-
yelopment of modern industry has
brought with 1t the use of complicated
machinery and powerful forces such as
steam and electricity which must be con-
trolled by men of the highest skill and
having the full use of all their faculties.
"For this reason manufacturers as n
rule have adopted stringent regulations
against the use of liquor during work.
ing hours and have been led to give pref
erence of employment to men known to
be free from the liquor habit"
IL would be markedly inconsistent for
such employers, he pointed out, to coun-
tenance laws which permit alcoholic
drinks to be sold. .1aJ
ACCIDENTS DUE TO DRINK.
An executive officer of the william
A, T. U,,II
Company declared that large proper
tion of industrial accidents are caused
because men have been drinking and
that the growth of employers liability
legislation may compel large employers
of labor to refuse to give work to any
one who drinks.
The views of Haines. Jones & Cadbury.
manufacturers of plumbers supplies,
were explained by the general manager,
]. H. Borton, who said Our company
has not suffered greatly from the use of
liquor among employees, because we have
weeded out the alcoholically inclined. We
had to, because in a factory filed with
flying wheels and exposed betting, the
worker who Is not alert Is in great dam
ger of being injured.
81 am told by an officer of the American
Steel and Wire Company" he continued,
''that that concern has eliminated drink
dents which occurred among the men who
use alcohol He told me that 1t was in
some of their plants almost impossible to
start work on Monday mornings, because
OF the number of over-Sunday 'jags' The
steel and Wire people found that more
accidents occurred on Mondays than any
other day of the week, followed by Tues
day and Wednesday. They ascrlbed the
preponderance to the results of drinking"
At the j. G. Brill Company an officer
said that the policy of his company has
always been to oppose liquor on the
ground that 1t reduces efficiency and re-
liability. 1.-THE non-drinlling man has al
ways been preferred by u.s." he said. 1--WE
have had a perpetual embargo on alco-
hol''
John & James Dobson carpet manu-
facturers, are one of 40 manufacturers
In the industrial section OF Manayunk
and Roxborough who are working for
local option by bringing pressure to bear
on members of the Legislature. The Key
stone Boiler Works, Richard Hay & Son
and the Freeland Manufacturing Com
pany are others.