Putnam patriot., 1916-11-10
GIRLS CLUB
GrosvenOrdale Company to ExempIify
 the Human Side of Industry
Is Concern That Has lhe Interest of
 Employees at Heart

There was recently delivered in Put nam an address by well known rail- road man on "The Human Side of In. dustry" He took up the labor prob- lem from it's human side in the rela- ton of employer and employe. He caustically criticised the press, moving pictures and magazines that picture the employer as a slave driver, an in- human money wringer and in other lights detrimental t. the employer of labor. He dwelt Ut length on the fact that on the human side of industry, the united interest of employer and employe, the meeting of the two on common planes and the interest one in the other depends the solution of the labor question.
 T. is toward this situation that prog ress is tending. It has been exempli- fled in this section to a considerable de- gree. In Attawaugan and Ballouvllle the manufacturing companies have re- gently built club houses for their em. ployes. In Putnam the Manhasset Company has provided base ball ground and the officials have done much to encourage the yonng men in their sport Other concerns have like- wise shown interest in their help.
 At North Grosvenordale Agent John F. Reardon provided an excellent playing field for the Reardon A. C. base ball club and through him the company always shows interest in all affairs of their employees They pro- vide excellent working conditions and there is in the large mills of this great cotton manufacturing plant harmo- nious, unanimity of interest.
 The latest step that the company has taken is to provide place of rec reation and relaxation for the female employees. The old chapel at Grosve. nordale, which for years has not been used for religious services, and which the company owns, is to be remodeied into a fine, up-to date club house for women and girls and the work has al ready been started. The house will be for the use of all of the women and girls employed by the Grosvenordaie Company.
 There will be reading and retiring rooms, library, lavatories with the ia' test sanitary plumbing, and, when complete, it wi!l'be a first class, con venient, well appointed, woman's club.
 The club may be used for sewing, reading, games or entertainments ana will be under the supervision Of Agent Reardon and the superintendency oi John A. Skedgell, whose home IS In the lower village. Masons, carpenters and plumbers are already at work and when the club is turned over to the girls and women next week 1t will be second to none in the county.
 While the club is in line of the im- portant natter, the human side of in- dustry, it is by no means the first step of the kind the company has taken. Aside from the fine base ball grounds, however, it is more in evidence to tne outside public than many of the other things the company has done to show its interest in the welfare Of it's em- pioyes.
 It is, really inspiring to see large corporation such as the <Grosvenordaie Company meeting its employees on the common ground of humsn interest, to see it give obvious evidence of this in- terest in such manner. It is an act that must be appreciated by the em- ployes, both men and women, when they consider it's significance. It IS an act that will tend to bring employer and employe in closer relations such as wilt banish forever, as this line Of relationship advances and continues, even the. shadow of dissention, labor troubles or disruptions of any kind, be cause it is the bringing of the human side into industry and is in itself one of the elements in the solution Of la bor problems ss represented by The