The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-11-06

try, and those who have them are nc
only the men who have what ar
known as the gilt-edged jobs. Street.
and roadways In the country in an
about the steel centers on Sunday
and In the evenings are alive wit
motor cars driven by steel workers o
members of their families. In tn
evenings the streets about the stee
plants resemble the sections near tn
railroad stations at such placs as New
Rochelle. Mamaroneck and Montclair
In the former cases the machin,
meets the head of the house, who ha.
ended his days toll of turning ore
coal, coke, limestone and other rough
products into finished steel material.
for bridges, battleships, merchant yes.
sells and similar structural shapes. In
the instances near New York the car
Is meeting a commuter who has been
at his desk some place in the busy
hive Of the business district of New
York.
Unlike in New York CITY, the steel
worker with a motor car Is not COM
PEELED to keep his machine i'm a pub
lie garage. He generally has a gar
age of his own in the yard of his
home, where he keeps the car in re-
pair and enjoys tinkering with 1t, for
no matter what his position in the
mill he has leaning toward mechan-
les and enjoys the work involved as
in the old days men took pleasure in
horse
The strike move engineered by the
American Federation Of Labor is d.
rected particularly against the United
States Steel corporation, for as the
organizers and agitators of the feder-
atton 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,
Notwithstanding it's output grows
larger every year. That is because of
the increases in other plants and the
construction of new mills
In its supplemental brief filed on
September q in the United States
supreme court in the anti trust case
1t was pointed out that in 1901 the
concern produced SOL per cent of all
steel turned out in the country, while
IN 1911 its proportion was reduced to
1871 per cent.
In their attacks on the United
states Steel corporation labor lead
FRS have picked out many isolated
,ases and INDUCED in generalities to
bolster their stand. They have con-
'istently ignored what the corpora
ion has done for it's workers.
Ahead Of Living Costs.
Employees of the United States Steel
corporation now are the highest paid
'ody of men in the steel industry in |
he world. Increase after increase
las been granted to the men without
and the advances have
,ept ahead of the gains made in the
ost of living.
Coal and coke have been sold to its
employees at cost, and 1T has been put
INTO the workers cellars without ex-
ra charge.
launch rooms have been provided
Or the men at which meals are sold
Or "a cents each. Shower baths and
Their personal comforts have been
rovided for the workers
The privilege of buying stock in the
'rporation on the installment plan Z
as been granted to THE men with no ,
NIT set on the time for final pay &
ent. &
Company houses have been built a
ear the plants which are rented to @
lie workers at low prices much be- h
W those at which te same kind of /
ructures could be purcased from /
hers in the vicinity a
Recreation fields are provided, base
vi and football teams are encourag-
and financed large contributions n
e made to libraries, hospitals and
her institutions by which the work
en- benefit, and welfare work of var
rs kinds is conducted so assiduously
d so steadily that 1t Is viewed as a n,
utter of course by the beneficaries. OF
caring apparel has been sold to it's II
lployes by the corporation at a <,
I'D of what 1t would cost elsewhere. h,
Other companies do similar work. N
e Jones & Loughlin Steel company ks
EN- 1t built it's new, large plant at m,
,odlawn, below Pittsburg, set aside of
arge tract in the center of the town a.
a playground. All appliances were y.
in at the company's expense. This da
summer the company completed tn
construction of a swimming pool WI
It DIS one of the largest in the coun- PC
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