The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1916-07-07
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chairman Of the American Foundry
mems Association gays: 4 am seeking
assistance that would help me drive
back saloons from manufacturing and
industrial establishments. For the
past five or six years have been go
ing through an experience that has
been costly 20 our firm and Injurious
IN creating an appetite Tor drink with
workman. but have finally ended il By
buyinS the saloon which caused cur
troubles. This saloon was close 10 our
office and gate entrance. We have
paid four times the value 81 the prop
erty in order to become prop-ieters
and close il up
i know Of no greater injury and in
justice that can be brought % a man
Ufacturer than By having saloons close
enough % be standing temptation for
wOrkHen 70 steal out and obtain in
tCzicants. am urging the American
Foundrymeri's Association TO assist
in persuading our state legislatures
u pass iawsthat VIII absolutely pro-
hibit the operation Of saloons within
five hundred 70 one thousand feet Of
any foundry. mill, or Industrial estab-
| Iishment,
Il believe that II a vote Of all work
men were taken, seventy per cent Of
| them would faver keeping saloons well
back from workshops. and would prefer
the drinking 81, -intOxieants during
working hours mad az lunch time rather
than beverages that befOg their brains.
The readiness with which employees
have taken to drinking milk sustains
me in this belief"
Dr.Chas. ". Hitchcock, chief sur
geon Of the Standard Accident Insur-
mace Company. informs me that:
Our long experience with all kinds Of
accidents claims has served TO conform
the general belief that alcoholics do
not present norma resistance, and that
long continued and persistent use Of
alcohol invariably 50 lowers vitality
as very much TO increase the length
Of disability resulting from accident
Smelling Of Whiskey on Monday. :.
Mr.. B. Mansfield, vice president Of
the J. z. Bodies Iron and Wire Works,
says: We have overcome the Non
day morning nightmare by paying
our men on Tuesday instead Of Satur-
day
Forty per cent Of our accidents are
among men who take intoxicating
liqour. Ninety per cent Of serious acci-
Edents occur among men who drink.
Not single serious accident has hap
Ipened to an employee who was total
abstainet, since our Compensation Law
went into effect We now discharge
and refuse Recommendation to an EN-.
. ployee who comes to work Monday
morning smelling Of whiskey-"
Mr.. T. Clark Thwing. vice president
of the Grand Rapids Veneer Works
a calls it that Industrial vampire, alco-
hoL" He says: We simply will no
: employ a man in any capacity who Il
even moderately incorporate. becaus'
. under our State Workmen's Compen
!. sation Act the financial risk is to
A great The extension Of the com
2 pensationlaws throughout the eountr
! Will, from a purely business stand
: point, do more for the cause Of temper
= ance than is now generally supposed
. He adds: Your statement, The plai
4 facts showingindustrial inefficiency du
n TO alcohol are 50 over whelming. the
i make rhetoric look cheap is aItogethe
' too tame You should print them j
! letters Of blood. for what one sees abot
q the large cities is enough 10 make on
" hate the traffic with a hatred too dee
le to express"