The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-22
SUI MAB PLEDGES BIG STEEL PLANT
 TO NATIONS AID.

n> VI
 0rectors Of the Bethlehem steel Co.,
 n the, course of speech he deliver
 d at the Lotos club last night an
 lounced that the great ordance plant
 It Bethlehem of which he was the
 aead, was now 50 per cent. greater
 than the famous Kruppi works at
 Essen, Germany. At the present time,
 MT. Schwab added, the Bethlehem
 plant had a capacity of about 1,000,
 poo rounds of heavy ammunition a
 month. &
 MT. Schwab also told of the plans
 ,f the company for the addition of a
 department which would manufac- ture 1s-inch guns of the type which | the Navy Department has decided
 will constitute the main batteries of the new battleships of the super ireadnought type which the United States is to build. T think may be pardoned when T say,'' said MT. Schwab, ''that be- lieve Bethlehem is now one of the great assets of the United States, and may add that the plant will be, in the event that the time ever comes, at the disposal of the United States government to be used as the govern ment shall see fit, and the United States government shall name the price at which it shall buy the ma terial produced in that plant"
 Mr. Schwab spoke at a dinner in his honor, which was attended by more than 500 members and guests of the Lotos Club. At the table with tMr. Schwab were President Frank R. Lawrence of the club, President Eu- Eehe G.. Grace of the Bethlehem Co.,, Samuel Insull, Mayor Mitchell U. N. yBethell Samuel Untermyer. Presi.. i1ent James A. Farrell of the United fStAtes Steel Corporation Archibald Johnstone, Vice President of the Beth lehem Co.,; Melville B. Stone, Arthur Brisbane, J. Hartley Manners, Su- preme Court Justice Luke D. Staple ton, Dr. Henry s. Pritchett, J. c. Schmidlapp and J. E. Dodson.
 , In addition to Mir, Schwabb the speakers were MT. Lawrence, Mayor Mitche1l, MT. Grace, pr. Pritchett, MT. Manners and MT. Stone. All of the speakers paid tribute to MT. Schwab as genius in matters of steel and iron MT. Lawrence going so far as to II the twentieth century.
 Wouldn't Sell Bethlehem Company.
 In his speech MT. Grace referred to efforts that were made shortly after the war in Europe started to buy the Bethlehem Co.,, and he told how MT. Schdab had thwarted those efforts, and how at a later date when some body suggested an ir1flation of the stock he put his hand down on the proposal.
 < Tn introducing MT. Schwab, who was, the first speaker of the evening, Mir. Lawrence referred to the situa- ton in the United States as regarded defense and said that if the country obtaiHed the wise laws it needed, sss American industry need not fear the competition of any other people, and that this happy situation would be made still more secure if i've cease to be the great, supine, helpless giant that we are today and place ourselves in position to command ,and if need be to compel the respect of man kind.'
 .Mr. Lawrence read a letter from Andrew Carnegie, in which the ven- erable iron master, referring to MT. Schwab, said that it was impossibl '.to honor Charley beyond, or even up to. his deserts"
 4 MT. Lawrence then presented MT. Bchwab as an American stwho, in war 1br in peace, will make himself felt in the history of his time, as a con structive genius, an optimist. and a patriot, but not captain of indus try" but rather, he added, "a. Field Marshal of American industry"
 MT. Schwab he'd a very carefully prepared speech, but he departed from 1t every moment or two. He began by tracing the development of the Bteel industry in the United States un- til today the output of the country's steel mills is by millions of tons the greatest in the world. This years output he estimated at about 4O,000,t 900 tons. which, he said, was the greatest in the history of the world.
 There were three classes of men in the United States, MT. Schwab said, who, in his opinion, should be, added to the articles which were intended solely for export. The first class he named as those legislators who have never learned what American indus try fs't and who never will learn. The second class, he declared, was the un- Bcrtfpulous labor agitator, who tells the laboring man that his condition is bad, despite the fact that never before in all history has the laboring man made such good wages as is the case at the present moment.' The third class, and of this class MT. Schwab talked at considerable length, is 'the man who does not believe in America"
 .1The man who does not believe in the United States" he asserted, "and who is not for America first, last and all the time should be exported from the United States. An American must be for America or else he is not of us'
 The American workingman, MT. Schwab said. was the "best working man on the face of the earth, man who deserves and should get the high est wages of any workingman in the world"
 Mir. Schwab's Speech.
 In his address MT. Schwab said:
 ''To make money is good thing; but it is far better thing to be able to create opportunities for other men to work out their own salvation in life with happiness and contentment.
 Though, Bethlehem has prospered, the fact about Bethlehem in which I most keenly rejoice is that, whereas in 1915 we employed 23,000 men, in 1916 some 70,000 men are on our payrolls. Tn 1915 our total payroll