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...Williams, Director of Personnel of the Hydraulic Steel Company of Cleveland, Ohio, from 1918 to 1920, spent seven months in 1919 working as an unskilled laborer under an assumed name in three steel mills, two coal mines, two shipyards, an oil refinery, and a railway roundhouse. During this period he kept an interesting diary which has since been published by Scribner's under the title of "What is on the Worker's Mind," and has gone into the second edition. In the summer of 1920, Mr. Williams spent three months working in the coal mines of New South Wales...
...almost every case when I became acquainted with the foreigners who make up the greater part of the labor gangs in the iron and steel mills, I found that they resembled everyone else in the important points if not in the minor. They were always anxious to take good care of their families and to give their children an education. They were anxious to stand well among their neighbors but we must remember that their neighbors' viewpoint was different, perhaps, from that of ours...
Should Influence Labor Leaders...
...trying to get into closer touch with the leaders of such districts as well as with the individuals who work in the plant. The influence that could be exerted upon these leaders by the business executives would prove to be a most important factor in the satisfactory adjustment of labor relations...
...Museum lost and New York gained one of the most distinguished men in the country, a man who has given the Metropolitan the place the Museum of Fine Arts wished to have, and which now it never can have. (2) The architect originally chosen, after months of detailed labor, had his work taken from him, and he was made the consulting architect. When he realized that he was not deceived in his suspicion that he was being studiously ignored, he also resigned. His successor, like the apprentice of Michael Scott, the magician of the ironic legend, made a pathetic fiasco...