Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-04
DEAR FOLKS

\
Y trips through the Wilson
& Company plant, Chicago, II
made it point to find out If
the women workers were con-
tented. / know by experience
that if women look cheerful
and act happily it is sure sign
that all is well--that it is a
very good reflector of the char
acter and heart Of a business.
| must say I was greatly inn
pressed, and very much pleased
as | visited departments in the
Wilson & Company plant-par-
ticularly t h ose departments
where women stand alongside
of the men laborers and do
their work skillfully and cheer
fully.
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These good women themselves
told me that they like their
work very much, and they said
it so earnestly and frankly that
there was no mistaking the sim
cerity of their words. 49,.
l have visited many business insti-
tutions in my lifetime where many
women are employed. ! am glad to
say that in a great many instances
these business institutions really de.
sire to make their women workers
happy and comfortable, which is
greatly to the credit Of the men who
conduct them.
But practically in every institution I
visited there seemed to be some
thing lacking--something that re-
strained 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 eXperience-set me
to asking questions. l felt there
was some extraordinary condition
existing that produced such wave
of contentment.
And | soon found out.
First. | learned that Mr.. Wilson
himself enjoys a splendid reputation
among the women-workers. They
have unbounded faith in him as a
man. They appreciate his kindness,
sympathy and consideration.
But Mr.. Wilson himself cannot do
everything. He has to delegate
power to others, but, in choosing
those to represent him, he makes
sure to find men and women Of
character and heart and ability and
engaging personality.
He found jewel in a little Bohe-
mian young woman-26 years old
on whom he placed the response
bility of employing and directing the
women-workers in the plant.
This young woman, as I soon dis
covered, is the key that opens the
doors to the happy working condi-
tions that prevail. She has a won.
derful personality; she keeps in daily
touch with her army of women
workers-more than 1,100 of them.
She studies 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 1,100 women
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 she loves
! to help others. She feels that she
is in a position where, by kind acts,
she can help to brighten the lives Of
host of women-workers; that she
can help to teach them our Ameri-
can customs 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 to become
American citizens as she herself is
proud to live here and to be loyal,
true-blue American citizen.
| The devotion OF the women W orkers to
! this young Bohemian woman is the most
beautiful thing I've seen in my life.
! Her smile and kindly words and deeds
| just radiate happiness.
| There is no finer work in all the world
| TO do.
Isn't it great, that in this Chicago or
! ganizat ton, over LOO women workers
have found happiness and comfort
! have had lots of sunshine let into their
lives-have been led to higher thoughts
and ambitions?
! And all because THE MAN WHO leads
the institution they work for wants TO
| SaA than, get out Of life nil tha in,. no..i