Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1917-09-22

being physically able to stand the work, it
means something over a hundred bucks a
month and having an industrious wife and
mother-n-law, who help him keep the wolf
from the door, he has been able to erect him
most beautiful home as barrier against
the ravages OF the nasty, sinking, mean
old thing The best part, however about
this story and the part that, it is hoped,
will have the greatest effect on those who
read it, is that Lee has held the same lob
for fourteen years and his employers say
that he is one of the best workmen that
ever entered the doors of the plant It is he
or she who sticks to his work that succeeds
in the end. There is little or nothing in
running about from pillar to post, trying to
find soft snap, because the chances are
you will never find what you are looking
for. One OF the head men Of big industry
near Seattle said ''There are no soft places
about this institution; l have been looking
for soft place eyre since I organized the
company and it | ever succeed in finding it
/ mean to grab it for MYSELF Every per-
son should find work that he or she can
do and then do it with all his might and
main, and if he does he is sure to succeed.
Among the thousand or more persons en-
ployed at the steel plant, about forty-five
Burt and the general management that
there are not ten times that many employed.
There are colored men at work there who
have been with the concern for five years
and they have no complaint to make Those
working earn anywhere from 1915 to SIS
per day. Many Of them handle the iron by
the ton and they therefore are paid for
what they do and those men earn in the
neighborhood of five dollars per day. ''This
company wants all the good men it can get
to work in it's plant and it does not give a
tinkers damn whether the men be white or
black in complexion. When colored men
were first put on the job there was some
complaint from some Of the Italian work.
men, but they were given to understand
that they would get along very much better
with the officers of the company if they
would attend to their own knitting, and
that was the last Of that I would be bad
to have lot of good and reliable colored
men come out here and if they wanted our
kind Of work they could get it, their color
to the contrary Notwithstanding. The
Northwest Prosperity Number of Cayton's
Weekly is long step in the right direction
toward bringing colored men to the North
west, said Mr.. Burt, secretary of the COM
pany.
Not many of the readers of Cayton's
Weekly have ever heard of W. S. Burt, but
in spite of that he has taken as long step
in the direction Of giving colored men Of
the Northwest an even break as any one
else, and if the steps were actually meas
ured, his would prove just a bit the long
est. For many years he was a politician
over in Tacoma and held quite number
Of political jobs, but he tired of that and
organized an iron plant at Take View,
Tacoma suburb, which in a way prospercd,
but believing he saw greater opportunities
in Seattle, he got hold Of the small plant at
Youngstown and then he moved his Lake
View plant there and combined the two
His guess proved good one and it was
not long before prosperity came his way
The plant at present is the largest in the
Northwest and has more than thousand
people employed, and Mr.. Burt in his own
quiet way just watches things and acts as