New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-01
DEAR FOLKS

TINE manager of the En-.
l. ployment Bureau where all
OF the men laborers IN the VIII.
son & Company plant, Chicago,
are employed, invited me to sit
in his Office all of one morning
and look over the men who an
Piled for jobs. I accepted his
invitation and I had Almost inter-
estlng experience. I will tell YOU
about it.
IN the first place I heard practi-
oally every man say: 81 want
to work here, boss, because Will
son & Company treat men right
and you give them chance to
get higher up in the ranks when
they make good!'
IN the second place I noticed with
great personal satisfaction. that the
manager treated every applicant for
a Job with as much courtesy as if h.
were receiving him in his own home
In the third place, / got the surnr;s.
OF my life when l saw men. who had
l.
been told by the manager that he
could not give them anything to do
just then, leave the Office with a
smile and thank you.
wondered why men could smile
any say thank you after being told
that there was nothing for them to
do. So / asked one of them what
there was to smile about and wbv
he said thank you, and he said. in
effect, this:
Oh' the boss, there, is always kind
70 everybody, and I like kindness.
L know he would give me a Job if he
could. am coming back again until
get a Job with this company. I
want to work here because 1 am
sure of getting square deal"
And he went away happy: so did III.
others. ''S
However. men keep on applying for
work IN the Wilson & Company
plant IN spite of the fact that t-ev
know the company is always full up
with laborers who never want to
leave their jobs.
The manager is the type that Mr..
Wilson selects to deal with his army
OF workers. He won't have a man
unless love for his fellows is thor
oughly developed in him--unless he
is a good judge of human nature
unless he has the quality of selecting
workers who will keep up the good
fellowship and the loyal spirit that
exists SO markedly in all departments
of the Wilson & Company plant.
He made no mistake in choosing the
manager OF the Mems Employment
bureau, who is man of big frame,
Dig heart, big character and with a
big idea of his duty toward his COM
pany and toward his fellow man.
Among the number who applied for
Jobs while / was in the managers
office was soldier in uniform. His
and manner and CONVEX
sation indicated that he was a re-
hned, educated man.
The manager told him that he
he had made a mistake in
applying to him for job-that evil
IDENTIFY he wanted an Office position.
or, perhaps, wanted to 90 on the
road as salesman-that he en-
ployed men only who were willing
to work with their hands. Mark
what this soldier said,
mo, I don't want an easy job. I
want to work with my hands.
found myself overseas. Living in
trenches and going over the top
n 'de different man of me. That
hard work gave me health and
strength. l never felt better in my
life. l want to keep my body as
healthy and as strong as it is now.
want job that requires the use of
ny hands, arms, legs, shoulders, feet. a
can use my head, too, in doing 4
manual labor. l want very much to
work for this company. I hear
everybody speak SO well of the or
sanization. l will appreciate it
greatly if you will give me an op-
oortunity to work az a laborcr. I'll
lake my chance on working my way
up. The president OF your company
got to the top by starting at the bot
.om of the ladder Maybe / can
limb to the top, too, if am not too
particular about the kind of work
start to do"
rhe manager said TO him: you are
III right, my lad; you've got the
light stuff in you. Come here next
Monday and / will start you to work.
Ne want men Of your grit"
lie came to work the following Mon
lay.
lie has already made hit with his
they like him a lot and are very