Connecticut western news., 1917-01-25
SHOPS AND PLANTS FAVOR INDUSTRIAL TEMPERAMENT WJRK lcflveIy Aid Welfare Pans of Every Description For
 Employees.
PHILANTHROPY NOT INTENT.
Comfort and Contentment of the Workers Considered Paramount.

ky American manufacturers for those fosBas of industrial betterment, in be- haEf of employees. that are generally esaSssed as philanthropic or beyond the wsewe requirements of laws and con- praGts
 Nsecent manufacturerS-and they are En the vast ma jority as are the decent 9eople of other classes-are opposed to wrSasding- child labor, and they strive to pay living wage to all Of their en- p2cgees. They go much farther than shsf, as a study of American industry wsn show. They devote time, money End effort to provide every possible supplementary means for promoting rhe convenience, the comfort, the heaIth, contentment and happiness of tAear workers and of the families of employees. Very few manufacturers consider such work or expenditure to te philanthropy, but, rather, neces- ,saEy feature of their business. While mbeir motives may be as altruistic as shGse of the average of mankind, they nna that it is good, from the business Soint of view, to promote as far as p0Ssible the welfare of their employees. NRkaustrial betterment pays.
 Industrial betterment means an at sempt to provide the best kind of work nmg and living conditions, and it im- ASies the cooperative responsibility of she wage earner and the employer in Bringing those conditions about and in hnproving them from time to time. It i@ Moa a dole to be handed to the wage ensmser, but is a token of that spirit of sxuGaafity which, under right condi- siGns, should permeate industry.
 IA thorough description of industrial Deffer1nent activities in the United Eaaees would require more space than k contained in the most voluminous encyclopedias to be found in the li- nrzries. Indeed, volumes might be written about the welfare work of Rirg4e corporation alone-the National GRsis Register Company, for instance, sr the International Harvester Com pany, the United States Steel Corpora sssn. Cheney Brothers. the Curtis Pub EsAiag Company, the Bethlehem Steel Company, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the Eastman Ko- 1Ak Company, any one of the leading xaEfroad companies, the principal banks, wanamaker's, or any of a host of other concerns which has developed activities sf the sort. There is hardly concern km tf1e country doing business on a fair ly extensive scale that has not initiated s@s1ge form of industrial betterment for isz employees. The honors do not go to tfse larger companies exclusively either, fer many of the. smaller business units &swe developed this side of their ac- tfvTties to rema rkable extent. Natu- saHy it is easier for the larger corpora t5osRS to put highly trained specialists 5n charge of the various branches of fa&s8strial betterment work.
 The fundamentals of industrial bet seTusent are observed in furnishing pleasant, sanitary. safe working condi- kiadas. Educational and entertainment features, facilities for study and recre- sxSon. special opportunities for the ex, srsTse of thrift and provisions tending so remove the dread of and to mitigate xFG Sufferings occasioned by sickness, disability or invalidity are matters wh&rh next receive attention. Well Bghfed. well ventilated and otherwise HlGessant and safe working places. res taaxants, reading rooms and libraries. rrspe rooms, emergency kits and hoSpi -Ess. club rooms. assembly rooms. gym Iasfums. lockers and bathing facilities.
 acaraation grounds. bonus and profit ,s5aring plans, special housing accom- aa4S Gon e. < oI.~n, Sf homes on easy payments, discounts Esz fhe purchase of goods. industrial RDd other educational classes. lectures for entertainment or instruction. nov nsg> pictures, excursions, field days, nseJseal attendance. safety committees
 .,T. accident and fire prevention, sick i5sss. disability and invalidity funds,
 4,sTIrance or benefit associations and ,senSions are some of the customary r,z,tures of industrial betterment work ss1e variety of which has no limit.
 Tens of thousands of lives are saved ~atn year and hundreds of thousands ot A.sser accidents are prevented annually saspough the accident prevention cam sasgn and feature of industrial better
 rEesat
 The Eastman Kodak Company in tiv'
 vssars reduced the accidents in it
 sFants by over 75 per cent per annun
 xisrDugh progressive safety campaign
 The Pennsylvania Railroad in tel
 Rronths decreased the serious injurie
 sf its 33,242 shop employees over 63 pc
 szsat by the installation of safety de
 vices and by the constant instruction O
 sEze Porkmen in exercising due caution
 Ss a result of it's safety campaign tn
 Tmfted States Steel Corporation reduce
 serious and fatal accidents in it's variou
 E2znts by 46 per cent since 1906. Fac
 GET 2,300 of the men employed by tn
 orporation escape who would have bee
 ,.stfured under the previous conditions