The Washington herald., 1919-03-06
DEAR FOLKS

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point to find out If the women
workers were eontented. | know
By experience that If women look
cheerful and act happily it is 4
sure sign that all is welLthat it
Is a very good reflector of the
Character and heart of a business.
] must say was greatly impressed,
and very much pleased as ! visited
departments in the Wilson & Com
pany plant-particulary those de-
partments where women stand
alongside of the men laborers and
do their work skiIlfuDy and cheer
fully
These good women themselves told
me that they like their work very
much, and they said it so earnest
~ and frankly that there was no
mistaking the sincerity of their
words.
7 have visited many business in
stitutions in my lifetime where
many women are employed. /
am glad to say that in a great
many instances these business in
stitutions really desire to make
their women workers happy and
comfortable, which is greatly to
the credit of the men who con-
duct them.
But practically in every institu-
ton / visited there seemed to be
something lacking-something that
restrained the happy looks and
the laughter / saw and heard in
the ranks of the women workers
in the Wilson & Company plant.
The good will, enthusiasm and
the fine spirit they show in their
work-so unusual in my expe.
Fience-sct me to asking Ques-
tons. l felt there was some ex-
traordinary condition existing
that produced such a wave oi
contentmcnt.
And I soon found out.
First. l learned that Mr.. Wilson
himself enjoys a splendid reputa-
ton among the women workers
They have unbounded faith in him
as a man. They appreciate his
kindness, sympathy and consid'
Grafton.
But Mr.. Wilson himself cannot
do everything. He has to dele,
gate power to others, but, ir
choosing those to represent him
he makes sure to find men anc
women of character and hear
and ability and engaging person.
siity.
He found a Jewel in a little Bo.
hsmian young woman-25 years
old-on whom he placed the re-
sponsibility of employing and di,
recting the women workers in the
plant.
This Young woman, as l soor
discov j, Is the key that opens
the doors to the happy working
conditions that prevail. She has
wonderful personality; she
keeps in daily touch with her
army of women workers-mors
than I,Ioo of them. She studio:
their comforts. She loves them
and shows that she loves them
They love her and they show that
they love her.
How many women readers of this
letter would like to undertake the
task OF leading over I,Ioo womer
workers and keeping them happy
1t is very big undertaking; but
this little woman (she's not much
bigger than pint of cider) loves
the work so much that she gets
the greatest joy of her life in the
doing of it.
She does her work because sh,
loves to help others. She feels
that she is in a position where
by kind acts, she can help to
brighten the lives of a host OF
women workers; that she can helr
to, teach them our American Gus.
toms and our language; that she
can develop in them the love OF
the beautiful in their home lives
that she can make them as proud
to live in America and become
American citizens as she herseli
IS proud to live here and to be :
loyal, true-blue American citizen
AsdevotiOn of the wOmen-worker.
20 this young bohemian woman a.
the most beautiful thing I've seen
In my life.
Her smile and kindly words and
deeds Just radinte happiness.
fhere is no finer work In all the
world to do.
Isn't IL great, that In this ChIeauo
organization, over 1,1OO women
workers have found happiness and
romfort-haye had lots of sunshine
let into their Ives-baye been led
to higher thoughts and ambitiopst
And all because THE MAN yNuo
leads the Institution they work for
wants TO see them get out of life nIl
the Joy possible and, for that reasop
chose as their friend and adviser
one OF the most talented young
women In the country-o ,yoman
fui1 of heart sympathies who Iu.t
revels In the joy Of her work.
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