New Britain herald., 1926-01-30
EUROPEAN WORKER
 HOLDS ON ID JOB
No Labor Turnover There, Says } Speaker at '. M. C. A.

Europe Ia the land of holding on, while America Is the land of get. ting on and the spread between the American workers present wages and his present cost of ne- eessities is greater than for any worker in tho world since the be- ginning of modern industry. This puts an especial responsibility for intelligent and trained leadership upon the present-day foreman and plant executive" These were state- ments made at the forenen's meet. ing held Tn tho Y. M. C. A. gym nasium last night, Whiting Will Hams, writer and counsellor In in- dustrial and public relations, of Cleveland was the speaker, His subject was Why Workers Leave Europe for America"
 Mir. Williams has worked as a laborer in the coal mines and steel plants of Britain and France and in the Ruhr and the Saar valleys in Germany. besides studying the labor problem as an observer in Belgium and Italy. He made his points by telling of his own personal eXperi- ences in the various foreign work ing places as well as in the workers homes and boarding houses in such industrial towns as Douai, an indus trial city in north France. where he helped French laborerS to rebuild a steel plant occupied by the Ger mans for four years and wrecked by them just before they retreated in October. 1918.
 Hard to Get Job in Europo
 Tt is enormously harder for a man 10 get job in Europe" said Mr. Williams, than here. Euro pean laborer shift only slightly from one factory or mine to another, be. cause the chance would be too great Of losing out completely. So there is practically no such thing as labor turnover,
 Not only does q man devote him. self to holding on 10 his job, but he gives much time and thought tc making sure to pass his job on to his children as, perhaps, his most precious piece of property.
 Little Chance For Promotion
 "1n additiop 10 the greater diff. cuties of getting a job over there there is much smaller chance fot he worker or his family 10 rise b, promotion from the ranks. Class lines make 1t difficult for inc coa miner 10 become q boss or foreman In tho Saar Valley, for instance, thc German custom was to require ( boy who wished to become boss tc pass a certain examination at the age of l4. In order. to prepare fol this test. the boy had to start spe Cial studies at 10. But this star Vas so expensive that it was cx tremeIy difficult for anyone cXcep the on of a man who got the saar, Of a boss. Thus the class of fore men virtually perpetuated itself. II this country miners are constant. taking examinations for Nualifyin; as rrc-bosscs and similar position up the line.
 American Workers Advantages
 "Most of the American worker adN antages como finally from ou t0untry's wealth of raw materials lt is for every good citizen 10 keel 10 q policy of making these. our ma turlI resources. last as long as pos sihle. They are our national io1 reservoirs. The increasing opportu nifty of th" American worker 10 liy l'"tter and 10 become more protiCien as a worker and moro intelligent a N citizen forces a similar policy upo all those who would retain his re Spect and properly direct his lahol only the most ignorant human be ing can be driven and then only h thc last Of. fear which partly srimu Iates and partly 3aray2es. Tn present situation accordingly chal nnCes th" American foreman an