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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-16

MILTON-The Rev. Mr. Mccormick
was in charge of the funeral services
for James F. Muslin held Thursday af
ternoon at Cambridge City. All of
two years of Mr.. Mustin's life was
spent in Milton or vicinity.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-16

REENSFORK-Paul Smith will
preach his farewell sermon Sunday
morning at 1890 o'clock at the
church.
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ANOTHER TYPE Of STEELWoRkERcc HONE

Of the agitators sent into the steel
mill districts to induce a walkout
among the alien workers. The priest
In his many years of experience
among mill workers has seen many
strikes in large and small Industrial
establishments, ana knows that in the
majority of instances the workers
have lost. the results peing generally
lower wage scales eventually.
'The saddest part of these unjusti-
fed strikes" continued the spiritual
adviser of hundreds of workers of the
Jones & Loughlin Steel Company,
is the number OF innocent persons
who are made to suffer-the women
and children. I have seen many
homes broken up by these walkouts
and know the distress caused. The
persons mostly affected live in a mar
row circle. with a horizon not far of.
and the changed conditions stun them
so that they become almost hopeless.
In the transitory period workers saw
ings are eaten up, their old jobs are
gone, their strike records do not make
them the most desirable applicants
when they go after new positions. the
encouragement that follows affects
them for long time and they receive
setbacks from which they do not re-
cover for years.
Poor Living the Exception.
-As to the squalor and poor living
conditions complained of by Foster
and Fitszpatrick, the strike leaders,
they are the exception rather than
the rule and cannot be laid to the
mems employers, as shiftless. and un-
ambitious persons, who scorn dirt,
will remain so no matter what their
environment. l know, for with pleas
and threats I have done all in my
power to compel changes for the bet
ter, In the majority of cases have
been successful, but in my time 1 have
been faced with many persons who
were hopeless"
Investigation throughout the Pitts
burg district bears out the priests
words both as to wages and living con-
ditions and reveals also the efforts at
betterment made by municipal au-
thorities, uplift organizations and the
employing companies. The United
States Steel Corporation alone has
spent s2OOO,OO0 in a comparatively
short time to help its workers in vari-
Gus ways without considering its ex-
tensiye pension system, by which loyal
workers are provided for in their old
age.
John Fitzpatrick, chairman Of the
National Committee for organizing
iron and steel workers. when testify
ing on September rs before the Senate
committee investigating the steel
strike announced without any quail
hcations that wages in the steel In
dustry were below the pauper line
Fitzpatrick, before he became an or
gsnizer, was horseshoer and adj
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LAWN AND FLSNWERce
COMMON

in steel plant is engaged constantly
in tasks that test his strength to the
limit. Nothing is farther from the
truth.
A worker on an ice wagon or on a
moving van in New York city does
more real hard work in one day than
a mill laborer does in two or three
days. The mills of the United States
Steel Corporation are filled with labor
ers from so to 10 years of age who had
better Jobs in their day but who
either did not save their money or who
could not quit working after they had
been at 1t all their lives.
One of the hardest Jobs in q mill Is
that of puddling-the first process in
the making of wrought iron after the
pig metal has been cast from the
blast furnace. Most of the puddlers
are American, English, Irish and
Welsh, and few young men work at
pudding, although the pay now is
from 81 to $12 a day. Not many
young men are learning the business
probably because the work is so hard.
The Carbon Steel Company has
about So pudding furnaces at its
Kittanning (Pa-) plant but seldom
are more than IS to 20 in operation
because of lack OF men. 1t is the same
in all plants that turn out iron, which
is much better than steel for pipes,
sheeting, railroad spikes and fish
plates. horseshoes and many other
purposes, although more expensive
than steel.
Mill workers are not expected to
handle large pieces of iron or steel
by brute strength. All kinds of labor
saving appliances are provided by the
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electric magnets to, lift heavy loads.
buggies to haul steel, wheel barrows
and mule or horse carts. The men
always work In gangs and the tasks
are divided.
In France, Belgium and Germazy
women do much Of the work that Is
assigned to laborefg m the steel plants
In the United States. Women on the
continent OF Europe charge the blast
furnaces, working among the heat,
CRIME ana ore dust on the charging
platforms high in the air.
Among the skilled workers at the
furnaces, rolls and other places the
heat is terrific II one goes near enough
to the molten metal or to the white
hot pieces as they pass through the
rolls. However, the workmen who
need them wear projecting masks and
learn by experience what work can be
done with the least possible discom-
fort. They become expert in the use
of hooks and tongs and can use them
with less effort than can most of the
organizers WELD n pen as they sit in
their well furnished Offices and
lbemoan the fate of the poor ex-
plotted worker who sweats away body
and soul to satisfy the avaricious
greed Of their, employers"
Scientific Handling of weights. 3
mill worker is not long at his
task until he learns what he calls
"sleight." That is to handle a bar of
steel with the least possible outlay of
strength by taking advantage of
hooks and tongs and manipulating
them SO as to obtain the best results.
Fulcrum power is the basis of the
method and of course some men be-
come much more proficient in apply
ing the theory than do others,
One of the men discharged from a
Pittsburg mill for his activity among
the foreign workmen In attempting to
get them to go on strike because of
the alleged squalid surroundings in
their homes and in the mills was
had caused trouble in Henry Ford's
automobile plant in Detroit, where he
had taken a different tack.
Ford in his IS a day minimum
wage plan had insisted that all work
men should live on a plano COM
mensurate with their wages, in bright
airy homes and with no boarders or
roomers. The agitator had called
Ford's attitude that Of 'Czar who
attempted to own his men body and
soul just because they were helping
him to pile up his millions"
This man at first was looked upon
as one who really was trying to help.
the workers in the Pittsburg district
and he was appealed to to help in theS
efforts that were being made to intros
duce reforms among the boarding
houses where eight or ten men slept
in a room and where a bed was no
sooner vacated than it was occupied
by another man. Instead Of giving
help the agitator went into an aimless
TRADE about soulless corporations
grinding down their men.
1t developed that the men who slept
in the particular boarding house were
single or had left their families in the
old countries and were living as
cheaply as possible in order to go
home when their savings had grown
to considerable proportions.
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of time. In concern employing about
quarter of a million men there are
always vacancies awaiting men of
ability.
Persons whose knowledge of steel
mills Is CLEANED from the talk of men
like Fitzpatrick and Foster, or who
from a window OF a railroad car see
smoke and flame belching from the
big plants, get the idea that q laborer
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By GUY BOLTON.

SUPPOSE the question most fire.
ouently encountered by the
i playwright is How does the
idea OF a play first come to your" And
the interested layman usually goes on
, to elucidate his meaning still more
fully: Does the inspiration come all
of a sudden-unexpected Or is
there q method--a technique by which
YOU work it out?" 1 think that prob
ably the best way to answer that ques-
ton is by illustration and so Will out
| line briefly the way in which Adam
| and Eva" was conceived and developed
| Middleton and / met soon after the
first tryout of polly with a Past in
the summer of 1915 and decided to
write another comedy. This was our
third Joint venture. the first having
been the tale OF 3 bartender who led
a temperance campaign which under
the stress OF circumstances We sold
to George Cohan and that later
emerged from his laboratory as Hit
the-Trail Holiday"
We discussed subjects-themes that
is-hunched in comfortable chairs
after a not too extensive dinner. 1t
was George who first preached the
idea OF relatives.
|. Middleton-What about relatives?
The relative is a darned good subject
for comedy. Almost everybody has
had experiences with this particular
burden.
Bolton--Good! I think we've struck
something at last. A man saddled
with relatives whole string of EN-
all living of him. Bills, bills--the poor
fellow up to his neck in bills.
Middleton-Yes, remember little
one act play Of mine called 1.-THE
Ducks Back"-whenever I've read It
middleton lectures on the drama at
Chautauqua, you see), I've noticed the
laughter that always comes at every
reference to bill day-the first OF the
month.
A note was made-bills first Of the
month. Then resumed.
Bolton-You've got your figure Of
| the man badgered and devilled by an
extensive family-the complement to
that, the protagonist, should be a man
who loves family life, a man who
thinks the family a sacred and
hallowed circle.
Middleton - In other words a man
who knows nothing at all about fam
lilies.
Bolton-Exactly. Cynical but true.
Where the Truth Lies.
Middleton-I'm not SO sure about
Its being true. The truth lies some
where In between.
Bolton-The truth OF everything
hes somewhere In between, but what
we're looking for at the moment is
opportunity for humcr. Can you i'm
agtne the scene after the family man
has had the very devil Of time? His
whole family have combined to put
something over on him and In walks
the senttmentalist. His eyes are SWIM
ming with the beauty Of all that he is
missing in life. "Oh, God" he cries,
1T must be wonderful to have a fam
ilyl"
Another note is made and the dis
cussion wanders Off on some false
scents Presently George starts again
after a silence.
Middleton-A man saddled with rel
atives means a rich man. One of the
blessings of poverty is that the poor
man only has his immediate family on
his hands-and these merely while
they are children.
Bolton-Yes, yes. you're right. He
must be rich. was thinking OF some-
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Tailoring hands" seldom have been or
ganized and that to get their rights
they should go into the union. One
particular reason that common labor
has not been organized is that labor
ers." as they are known, looked upon
their jobs only as stepping stones to
better positions. No man of brain or
Drawn ever remained a laboring hand
in a mill for any considerable length
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Q INCE the year 1891 the state OF
y South Australia has erected
2s,148 miles of vermin fences,
enough to encircle the world and with
me remnant build a double line Of
renee along the southern border OF the
United States. New South Wales has
spent more than s27.O0O.o 900 for rab-
on determination and has within its
borders $4,000 miles OF fe-iee.
VI late years the rabbit has been
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siticns the rewards are about three
times those in other trades.
Common laborers receive As to SO
cents an hour. their workday being
set at eight hours. For overtime they
receive time and half. Therefore,
If man works ten hours he gets paid
for eleven, receiving for a days pay
s4.95 to $3.50. No men are compelled
to work more than eight hours, al
though with so much work to be done
and the shortage of labor men may
work overtime IL they desire to do so.
Wages of from sS.26 to 50 a day are
made by the men in the semi-skilled
jobs large number Of which are filed
by persons who are foreign born
Average of the Skilled.
Among what are known as the
skilled workers in the steel mills. to
which positions all workers may as
pire, and many of which are held by
aliens, the average daily wages are:
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thing else Won know how often we've
said that the success of our two pre-
vious plays lay in an essential incon-
gruity: A bartender leading a temper
ance campaign. A clergyman's daugh-
ter pretending to be a notorious
French siren. Well don't you think
1t would give us something OF the
same sort if we had a very young man
as the father of family?
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Ing toward mechanics and enjoys the
work involved, as in the old days
men took pleasure in a horse.
The strike move engineered by the
American Federation of Labor is d.
rected particularly against the United
States Steel Corporation, for as the
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Speaking of the "Poor" Steel Workers
Who Quit Jobs Paying Up to$70a Day

mitted to the Senators that he did not
knew, anything about steel mills.
Facts and figures CLEANED from the
poyrolls of the steel mills in the Pitts
ourg district prove that the men in
the lowest Jobs are paid far above the
'pauper" line. while in the skilled po-
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and financed, large contributions are
made to libraries, hospitals and other
institutions by which the workmen
benefit. and welfare work of various
kinds is conducted so assiduously and
so steadily that it is viewed as a
matter of course by the beneficiaries.
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Middleton-How do you mean?

Bolton-Let the sentimentalist be
& young man--let the older one change
places with him-make him the daddy
of all the sisters and the cousins and
TIE aunts.
We discussed ways in which this
change of place could be accomplished.
Then:
Middleton - Did you ever hear the
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the Com :
panies Have Done
for Their EN- :
pIoyees and What
the Agita t ors
Promises Mean

tT r ERE are men who have been
making higher wages than
4 ! they ever expected to get,
whose pay has gone UP ITO per cent.
in the same length of time that living
costs have risen 80 per cent, who have
been as happy and contented as It is
the lot of humans to be; but who by
false teachings, lying generaiities. APP
peals to class hatred and absurd
promises of future rewards are being
persuaded to strike for the good Of
the cause by men who in most cases
do not know muck bar from an
beam"
In the foregoing words the pastor
Of q Catholic church on the South
Side, Pittsburg. deplored the work
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old legend OF st. Peter and the bun
dies? Eyerypody's troubles were ali
done up into bundles and St Peter
ordered each one to choose a different
bundle. All the people who had been
complaining so bitterly about their 10,
began to complain still more bitterly.
They wanted their own troubles back
again.
Bolton-I see what you mean. After
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organizers and agitators of the fedora
ton admit, the big organization Is
looked upon as the "key" to the whole
industry. They are right In that con-
tention, although the corporations
percentage of steel production in the
United States is steadily declining. not
every year. That is because of the in
creases in other plants and the con-
struction of new mills.
In its supplemental brief filed on
September 81 in the United States Su-
preme Court In the antitrust case II
was pointed out that in 1901 the con-
Germ produced SOL per cent. of all
steel turned out in the country. while
in 1911 its proportion was reduced to
45.7 per cent.
In their attacks on the United States
Steel Corporation the labor leaders
have picked out many isolated cases
and INDUCED in generalities to bolster
their stand. They have consistently
ignored what the corporation has done
for it's workers.
Here are the twelve demands made
by the strike leaders when ordering
the walkout on Monday September %:
Right of collective bargaining.
Reinstatement of men discharged
for union activities.
Eight hour day.
One days rest in seven.
Abolition of twenty-four hour
shift.
Increase of wages sufficient to
guarantee American standards of
living.
Standard scales of wages in all
trades and classification Of workers.
Double rate of pay for all over
time, holiday and Sunday work.
Checkoff system of collecting
union dues and assessments.
Principle of seniority to apply in
maintenance, reduction and increase
of working forces.
Abolition of company unions.
Abolition of physical examina-
tons Of applicants for employment
Without considering how many OF
the demands are Bolshevist tenets, OF
the anarchistic, revolutionary and
syndicalist leanings, past or present
Of William u. Foster, the strike
leader. IT is interesting to note what
the. United States Steel Corporation
has done for and is doing for its
workers. Then one should try to
think Of some union that has done as
much for its members.
Ahead of Living Costs.
Employees Of the United Steel Cor
poration now are the highest paid
body of men in the steel industry in
the world. Increase after increase
has been granted to the men without
solicitation, and the advances have
kept ahead of the gains made In the
cost OF living.
Coal and coke have been sold to It's
employees at cost and 1t has beer
put into the workers cellars without
extra charge.
Lunch rooms have been provided
for the men at which meals are sold
for "a cents each. Shower baths an6
other personal comforts have been
provided for the workers
The privilege of buying stock in the
corporation on the instalment plan has
been granted TO the men with no limit
set on the time for final payment.
Company houses have been bull
near the plants which are rented e
the workers at low prices or sold &c
them at prices much below those al
which the same kind of structure.
could be purchased from others In the
vicinity.
Recreation fields are provided. base.
ball and football teams are encouraged
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Fencing a Continent

paying his board. He goes to swell
the total of food exports from the
Commonwealth. Along the country
roads rabbits may be seen hung on the
fences awaiting the rabbit carts that
convey them to the packing houses to
be prepared for shipment as frozen
meat and hides. During the year for
which figures are last available Aus
tralia exported frozen rabbit and hare
10 the value Of si.AOO.000 and skins
to the value of 100000.
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Men Of the highest type Of skilled
workers receive wages of from $65 to
$40 a day in some Of the larger steel
pants. They combine executive ability
with knowledge of steel production.
Automobiles by the thousand are
owned by workers In the steel industry
and those who have them are not only
the men who have what are known as
the gilt-edged jobs. Streets and road
ways in the country in and about the
steel centres on Sundays and in the
evenings are alive with motor cars
driven by steel workers or members Of
their families. In the evenings the
streets about the steel plants resemble
the sections near the railroad stations
at such places as New Rochelle, Ma
maroneck and Montclair.
In the former cases the machine
meets the head Of the house. who has
ended his days toll of turning ore,
coal. coke, limestone and other rough
products into finished steel materials
for bridges, battleships. merchant ves-
sells and similar structural shapes. In
the instances near New York the CTR
is meeting a commuter who has been
AT MS ueSk SOlIS lidSo III NAiO DNSy
hive of the business district OF New
York.
Has His own Garage.
Unlike in New York city, the steel
worker with a motor car Is not COM
oelled to keep his machine in a public
Garage. He generally has garage Of
his own in the yard of his home, where
he keeps his car in repair and enjoys
tinkering with 1t, for no matter what
his position in the mill he has lean
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Wearing apparel has been sold to Its
employees by the corporation at a
third of what 1t would cost else where.
Other companies do similar work
The Jones & Laughlin Steel Company
when 1t built it's new, large plant at
woodlawn, below Pittsburg. set aside
a large tract in the centre of the town
for a playground. All appliances were
put in at the companys expense. This
last summer the company completed
the construction of swimming pool
that is one of the largest in the
country.
Fitzpatrick in directing his efforts
particularly against the foreigners en-
Moved in the mills contended that
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TENNESSEE
-OAL and RAILROAD Company
FAIRFIELD, ALABAMA,
STANDARD SINGLE FIVE
Room House.
FOR WHITE EhPlOyEse
%
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SUPPOSE the question most fire.
quently encountered by the
i playwright is How does the
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-01

enjoying themselves immensely. Mrs, Ziegler will return to Juneau in about a month.
 * * #
 You have probably heard that Flo renee Dupuy-you remember her she was up here with her mother a couple of Summers ago visiting her brother, Vic Dupuy-died just two days after Christmas, a victim of influenza
 Mrs. Sloane went South this week and will visit her mother and her sister, Mrs. Stevens, in California. She will be gone about two months.
 !. #
 hear, Mary, that Larry Hyde Brewster is very shortly going to marry MT. Moore, who used to be here in the land office-you remem- Der them, I am sure.
 # #
 Mrs. Finnegan is going to leave next week with Pat and Terry to visit her mother in Seattle.
 # # *
 Gov. Riggs, who was called East early in December on account of the serious illness of his mother, who died before he reached her, returned to Juneau this week. He left Mrs. Riggs and Lizette and Tommy in New York where they are visiting Mrs. Riggs relatives. They expect to leave New York about the middle of February.
 + = # *
 MT. and Mrs. Victor Wilhelm and their children are moving to Santa Fe, I hear, where MT Wilhelm has been stationed in connection with the Land Office.
 #
 Mrs. B. D. Stewart, who has been i'll in Seattle, has improved and re turned to Sulzer where MT. Stewart is superintendent of MT. Sulzer's mine.
 :* * *
 The High School Freshmen gave
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NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
 FINAL REPORT

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned. Administrator of the Estate of Thomas Graham, deceased. has filed his final account in the Probate Court at Juneau, Alaska, and that said Court has set down Saturday, the 18th. day of March, 1919, at the hour of ten o'clock a. m, as the time for the hearing on the same. All persons having any objection to the allowance of said account are hereby admonished to be and appear in the court room of said Court at Juneau at the time above mentioned and make their ob. jections in the manner provided by law.
 w. A. c. BALDWIN. First publication, January 10, 1919. Last publication, February 2, 1919.
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HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL
(Fourth and Gold Streets) RaV q n ChrictSon Daau

Fourth and Gold Streets)
 Rev c. D. Christian. Dean.
 Fourth Sunday after Epiphany (and Festival of Purification or Pre- sentation)-
 At Il a. m. the two miracles of Baptism and Eucharist Spiritual healing and feeding) will be worked, according to the Lords promise.
 Sermon: Beginning of Construc- tive Ministry in Galilee (after first year in Judaea when National Of ficially had had its Chance and Re jected Him)-"Year of Popularity
 | Building up a new kingdom training disciples, teaching princi ples of new kingdom. II. Parables etc. tonly understood by those who mean to obey and are living up to light III Miracles (healings, etc. ) Significance, purpose, spiritual blindness to everyday miracles in world and Church.
 Offertory; "Hosannah, We Sing; Like the Children Dear"
 Church school, l2:30.
 Services at Douglas in evening. Guild meeting Friday.