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...Williams, who was formerly vice-president of the Hydraulic Steel Company, Cleveland, Ohio, has worked for considerable periods of time during the past three years as an unskilled laborer, under an assumed name, in steel miles, coal mines, ship yards, and railway roundhouses, both in America and in Europe. With these experiences as a background, Mr. Williams has written several articles and books on the psychology of labor and social problems. He has been delivering a series of lectures in the Graduate School of Business Administration during the past month of "Industrial Management" and "Labor Problems...
...over there is an especially arduous one. I have seen miners work stretched out in a vein only eighteen inches thick for a great length of time, without even being able to sit up. For this he receives only a very modest wage. The conditions are better in the steel mills in the north of France, which are aiding in the reconstruction of the devastated territory...
...Life is a tool, to handle as we will," declared Dean C. R. Brown, D. D., of Yale, in a talk to 200 Freshmen in Smith Halls Common Room last night. "Here is a knife of keenest tempered steel. In the hands of the surgeon it is a means of saving life; in the hands of the assassin it becomes a fatal weapon. The tool itself is useless, it is the guiding intelligence behind it that counts. So it is with our lives...
This will be the third consecutive year that Mr. Williams has visited the school. He was formerly labor manager of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company of Cleveland, but for the last three years he has devoted his time to lecture work and writing. He has done much investigating of labor conditions by working in various countries "incognito" as a regular day laborer. His two latest books "What's on the Worker's Mind" and "Full up and Fed Up" embody the facts gleaned from these investigations. Mr. Williams also has written frequent articles on labor problems for magazines and newspapers...
...Among those that will probably advance are the following: Interest rates, wages, railroad car loadings, automobile output, money in circulation, cost of living, unfilled orders of the Steel Corporation, bank loans; iron and steel production, traffic on the Great Lakes, rediscounts with the Federal Reserve Banks...