Evening star., 1932-08-29

apportioning the available employment
among its workers would not of itself
be enough to take care of all them ade
quately. The program was then carried
into new phases by way of extending
relief to employees whose resources had
been seriously depleted which Mr..
Taylor classified as follows:
/. Direct relief given by the corpora
ton.
2. Credits extended by the corpora
ton.
3. Relief extended by good fellowship
clubs and other employees welfare
organizations.
officials Of the corporation have been
assigned to keep in close touch with
individual employees. When it appears
the present reduced income or means
of employees are insufficient to cover
their family's needs arrangement is
made lor extending credits or otherwise
helping them. The employees good fell
loWship clubs assist the corporation
officials in the conduct of this work.
The steel corporation co-operates with
these organizations by joint action.
The cost of providing relief for its
employees bulks large in the aggregate,
but compared with the business volume
of the great industrial company it is
not unduly oppressive. Mr.. Taylor said
the directors feel it has been fully
justified.
For the first half of this year the
total cost was $l,4l0 199-$4l7, ,902 in
direct relief and $854,889 in credits
dyanced to employees, in addition to
$l37,408 expended by the employees
good fellowship clubs. For a period of
2l months, from october l, 1880, to
July l. 1882, as Mr.. Taylor has pre-
viously stated. the cost of the corpora
ton for the direct relief and credits
aggregated $3O05C24. Aside from this
the corporation has assisted in gen.
eral relief activities in communities
where its plants are situated.
Outstanding in the corporations eff
fort to help its employees is the garden
ing feature, which has met with greater
success than even its advocates eX-
pected Under the plan, the corpora
tion attempted and has succeeded in
furnishing a garden plot for every en-
ploye who expressed a desire to grow
his own vegetables. These gardens are
divided into two groups: Small home
gardens for individual employees and
community gardens which are operated
by a number of employees. They total
73.5l1 in all. of which roughly one
third are small gardens and tWo-thlrds
community gardens. Estimated value
of this garden produce, Mr.. Taylor said,
is Sl.337,775 for 1882.
The corporation. .haS even gone so far
as to provide skilled instructors to teach
housewives how to can fruits and food
stuffs for their Winter use, including
foodstuffs which are grown in 1902
acres Of gardens in the steel mill COM
munities. the development Of which the
corporation has encouraged and foS-
tered.
The program has also been carried to
a point where the steel corporation is
furnishing instructions to the wives of
employees in the almost forgotten art of
home baking of bread The science of
baking bread. the corporations expert
ence would indicate, was all but lost
in the home somewhere back in the
pre-War days when housewives tossed
aside their kneading boards for the
simpler expedient of purchasing the
bakers product.
In instances where cheap flour in
duces housewives who are regarded as
part of the steel family to inquire into
the way to bake bread, the corporation
is ready with skilled instructors to
teach them the art.
1--WE are confident that when the
final chapter of this depression is writ
ten" Mr.. Taylor said, "the United
States Steel Corporations record in
providing work and in extending relief
to its employees will be one of its out
standing achievements"