Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-30

|
Woodbridge, of Pittsburgh, S;neral
| superintendent of Land and housing
! Department of that company, to eX-
! plain their plan to the State Cham
ber.
| Mr.. Woodbridge gave a detailed ac-
count of the manner in which the
Pittsburgh company has handled the
housing situation for its employees.
The plan briefly is this: That the
| company will have their real estate
department buy the employe a lot,
allow him to select a plan from q
number which have already been
built, have the purchasing depart
ment buy his materials, and the
engineering department supervise the
actual building.
In payment for this house the en-
| ploye signs a contract in which iic
agrees to pay down a minimum of
10 to Is per cent. and to pay off the
/ balance monthly in ten years, with
| interest charges on deferred pay
ments of ) per cent. The company
! presenting this plan was virtual V
swamped with applications from its
employees
The plan the local Chamber of
| Commerce would pursue if adopting
Mr.. Woolridge's suggestions would
| be this: Seven or eight concerns
would organize into a Land aud
] Building Company, each company
subscribing as much stock as it
would take to relieve it's own hous-
| ing shortage. Then each company
would present the plan outlined
above to it's employees all companies
cooperating in the building of The
| houses.
Mr.. Woodbridge illustrated his talk
with lantern slides showing the
houses which have been most popu-
| lar among the workmen for whom
! they were built.
The meeting was opened this
morning with an address by Lieuten-
Governor f. h. Beidleman on
Better Roads in Pennsylvania" "
Governor Beidleman traced the de-
velopment of the good roads move
ment in Pennsylvania, going back
to the point when there was no par
ticular need for hard road beds on
account of the absence of automo-
biles.
With the increasing importance of
motor trucking, however, it became
necessary for Pennsylvania to pro-
duce better roads and many more OF
them, and the system of highway
building in vogue at the present time
was then completed. The cross
country highways are to be con-
nected up by secondary and tertiary
highways, so that Pennsylvania will
be overrun with network of splen-
did roads, making it independent of
! railroads in the event of the failure
of those lines TO function, for one
reason or another.
Commissioner C. b. Connelle, OF
the State Department of Labor and
Industry, followed the Lieutenant
Governor with an address on the
functions of his department in its
relations to business.
Commissioner Connelley confined
his talk to the Rehabilitation Act,
as passed by the 1919 Pennsylvania
Leg5s aElre and approved by the
Governor. The bill provided for the
Department of Labor and Industry
to cooperate with any other auth
critics in investigating conditions in
factories and workshops. with the
view to preventing accidents; but
more particularly to take care of the
| rehabilitation of men already in
iured in some way and arrange for
their care and treatment. The bill
also provides for the founding OF
an educational institution to train
physically handicapped persons.
QUESTIONABLE is being printed
now TO be diStri buted throughout the
manufacturing parts of the State in
order to get figures on which to base
their work.
Every business. excepting agricul-
ture, is affected by one or more laws
administered by the Department of
Labor and Industry through its
Workmen's Compensation Board
Industrial Board, Division of Indus
trial Hygiene and Engineering, and
Bureau of Inspection, Meditation
and Arbitration, Employment, and
Rehabilitation. 1t is definitely to the
interests of business concerns to CO.
operate with the different bureaus
of the Department.
Following the addresses. the re-
port of the nominating committee
was heard. Nominations were made
and adopted as follows:
Directors for term of four years:
B. Dawson Coleman, Philadelphia
Archibald Johnston, South Bethle-
hem; f. NJ. Kirby, Wilkes Barre; y
Shelley Kloss, Tyrone Harry b. Nc
: Dowell, Sharon; George Nicholson
Wilkes Barre: George S. Oliver
Pittsburgh; f. ]. Poole, Reading; d
, f. Tracy, Harrisburg; Ernest r
Trigg, Philadelphia.
Directors for term of one year tC
lfll vacancies:
u James Cochran. Williamsport; j