Show I PAYS TRIBUTE TO INDUSTRIAL WORKER George eorge D McDill of Chicago Gives Interesting Address at Local Y M C ATHE A ATHE THE LABORERS ERS NEED HELP SPEAKER SAYS AID SHOULD BE GIVEN THEM George D of Chicago indus industrial IndustrIal industrial trial secretary s of f the international com committee committee committee of the Y M I C A delivered an address on The Association and the Industrial Workers at the local Y M MC MC MC C A yesterday yest afternoon at He said In part partI I wish nil flU presiding officers had my occupation down so they the could introduce me without mistake I was introduced in Chicago by an old gentleman who was talking without notes and after atter looking at me a little mixed on what he ha should say he introduced me as the tho agricultural secretary of the Y M C A He thought I looked like a farmer Another time a minister told about the new church then being built and the various departments it would have took a side look at me and said We e are going to have an Industrial department with a kitchen attached He Hc thought from observation that I could take tako care of ot the kitchen end of ot It There are industrial workers in this country The Industrial worker is found In the various trades In the forms of transportation in mining in mechanical pursuits the laborer and the Immigrant Ho He is found Mound wherever there is work to do The industrial worker is doing the worlds work today At times with discomfort and great risk to life Ufe he is bringing to you and me the comforts of ot this twentieth century civilization He HeIs HeIs Heis Is the man who Is building the city who is laying laIng out the streets beautifying the city with parks furnishing the transportation transportation transportation tation lighting sewer and water SS systems systems He is building the home of ot the humble cottager and the great skyscraper of all structural steel workers of the country are are killed each year and the average of their working life Is only ten ton years ears Soldiers have a longer life than that You will find him in the great factories and mills that are arc turning out the products which we enjoy He be becomes becomes becomes comes in the factories and mills almost a part of the machine which he operates There Thore Is a dwarfing of the life physically and mentally and sometimes morally by this machinelike movement that he Is compelled to make In that form of em employment employment employment You will find him In the greet great forests where God gives men health and he brings in the yield of the forests lum lumber lumber ber her and their allied products You will find him in the construction camps for forthe forthe the tho bringing of water for tor instance to the city or for irrigation or power pur purposes purposes purposes poses You will find him building rail railroads railroads railroads roads and bridges in oil fields and on the Panama canal These are am the men who are doing the worlds work Who ho is he heWell heWell Well Veil of ot him Is American partly black and nearly of him is of ot foreign birth Wherever he is together In any consid considerable considerable considerable erable number In groups gro ps there Is a need and there is a field of the Young Mens Christian association for the association is peculiarly adapted to meeting the needs of these men His capital is his in industrial Industrial industrial efficiency Primarily with the industrial man his physical w Is probably his greatest asset and second secondarily secondarily secondarily and yet et I would say sa coordinate with the physical Is his intellectual equip equipment ment for today it is the man of some in intellect Intellect intellect and training as well as with the brawn that Is the best industrial worker And next to the physical l and intellectual condition of the man Is the need Is the need from the religious the moral standpoint the need from the so social social social cial side And so we find in ministering to the industrial worker that he has a nature and this is the formula on which we can work We Ve would take It up first from the standpoint of his physical needs The Industrial worker In order that he may ma have the highest ef of efficiency must be in good physical condi condition condition condition tion We Ve say that the men who are dig digging digging digging ging the ditches who are throwing up these great skyscrapers men who are out in the woods and those who are in inthe Inthe inthe the mines that tIn t they tho are the men with the best health Not always We find that certain forms of oC labor have their penal penalties penalties penalties ties In Ill a certain camp when wen men are brought to the hospital from the mines to be operated on it was found that their lungs were grayish in color Inthe same hospital the cowpunchers lungs are pink showing that the air In n the mines affects the lungs and Is conducive to great mortality appearing In the form format of at pneumonia and consumption Men need Instruction on the care of the body they need to know what pertains to health and I what will Injure it In mining camps amps f they need knowledge of what to do be before before before fore the doctor comes instruction In first aid to the injured Sometimes it itIs itIs ItIs Is very hard to get them to listen to a lecture along that line They need to know something about what mosquitoes and flies files do Men In charge of construction construction construction tion camps are observing some of these sanitary rules for the promotion of health and I find that there Is an In Increasingly Increasingly increasingly Intelligent Int use of the screen where files fUes are likely to gather They need to know about bout a the water drink These things mean health to a man inthe in inthe Inthe the mining camp and health Is his great greatest greatest greatest est asset They need to know something about the action of alcohol on their system ss system tem Men are recognizing the fact that alcohol Is the worst enemy of efficiency in the industrial worker An industrial worker has an Intellect Intellectual ual need Educational directors tell Us that not one man In 1000 Is fitted educationally educationally educationally for the tho work hev he Is doing A Frenchman came to a western city to look for work in tho the wholesale district He failed to get employment because of his appearance and his Inability to speak English En English EnglIsh glish clearly He got a Job driving hogs for tor Armour One day he said to a companion com companion companion panion I believe I will go back on the farm His companion said What you OU need Leo is better education and a a It little better batter command of the English English language You had better go up to the theY they theY Y M 11 C A He said What is the Y YM M DI C A He was told where the Y YM YM M 11 C A was Has and he went up there I dont know how he would have fared In Salt Lake City He lie only had 25 cents in his pocket but Fred Willis the general secretary personally heard his story stor r and put him In the educational department He e began to improve In his speech and In his appearance He attended the Y M MC MC MC C A classes classe and he would drop Irto the tho th Sunday afternoon meetings He kept on improving and he was put In charge of all of Armours hog ho yards at per month He got married and one day told his bride that If he was worth a month to Armour he ho was worth more to himself He Ho started In business Later the old stone Y M 11 C A building was sold and a canvass started to raise for a new building The Tho president went to this man and said We V think you ought ough to give 50 The man said I can cannot cannot cannot not do It Well Vell make it 16 5 then Nd NoV Well cannot you make it 23 25 3 No I cannot do it The president was disgusted and threw a subscription blank on the table and said Fill it out for what you youcan youcan youcan can Leo filled it out and said I 1 want you 3 ou to understand that all I have and andall andall andall all I am am I owe to the Y M C A I have filled that blank out for 2 and will guarantee 1000 more from my friends This man today toda is one of the active di dl directors directors rectors of the Y M C A and a sterling business man There are many men who need reed the elementary and technical train training trainIng training ing that the Y M L C A can give in order to better them for their present calling and give them an to step higher Men need the social element In their lives aves in order to make efficient working men If you vou work at the same old Thing hing hour after hour with nothing to do but go to mess tent or the boarding place and perhaps the saloon and a gambling game life gets mighty tiresome and there Is a longing for something that thatis is clean and The rho Industrial man does not take to calisthenics and similar gymnasium work He takes an in interest Interest interest terest in wrestling boxing or fencing anything that has contest In it like basketball or volley ball bail those fellows take greatly to baseball They need the element of contest and recreation and the Association can bring them that I believe that the average employer employ r has an altruistic attitude toward helping his men He Is doing It for sake But there is the argument for the stockholder that shows It is a paying business to safeguard the lives of their men and to promote industrial efficiency Judge Gary of the steel trust Is erecting a Y M lI C A building at the steel city of at Gary Gar Ind lad as a memorial The employer as well as the joins the Y M C A In dealing with this question They recognize that after 66 years of ot experience which the association association association has had In dealing with the needs of ot men It Is capable of doing the work worl better beHr bet r than they can Music for the occasion was furnished by Miss Eva Johnson who gave one of selections and Miss Helen Hartley violinist who 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