Show 1 I W t Glory Be e to o Gary II I I MERICA and in fact the entire world orld would be much be better te A off were there more captains of industry of the same caliber as Judge Gary head of the United States Steel corporation Judge Gary however r is more V than a captain industrial industrially Y speaking He is a lieutenant colonel or a brigadier general pr or anything else which might describe an exalted position in the world of trade i However this is not intended as a biographical 1 sketch of the Head of the greatest individual industrial concern in the world It It is on the contrary merely preliminary alluding to to the action st taken by the steel corporation in n conse consenting ting to a still further I I reduction in the price of its product as a means of f hastening the theT ther T r t turn r 1 of the country to a peace basis V l The steel corporation was the first big concern to announce a reduction in the price of steel and iron fol following owing the signing of of- 1 the armistice and at the same time it voluntarily concluded a wage I i a re ment with its which was wh wholly ly satisfactory to the workmen VV VV 1 Now at the suggestion of the United States industrial board the steel company has agreed to a further reduction in price and andiA iii iA announcing this fact Judge Gary said in part The iron and steel in austry was the first called upon b by bythe Y the board to meet the business situation and to lend its energies and nd assistance toward bringing about a readjustment and restoration restora- restora tion of the good business conditions and therefore was the first c called lied upon to make the necessary sacrifice in profits but those connected with the trade believe e that as a result for the ye year r as a ahole whole hole they will be compensated and that if other lines of industry show show the same disposition as they undoubtedly will we we may expect J eat business progress and prosperity in the near future l As Judge Gary says other great industrial corporations undoubtedly undoubtedly un- un will take similar action As a rule real captains of industry are are fair minded and much of the troubles o Of trade including in- in labor disputes can be credited credit d to the pseudo captains who Irl never ver gave orders other ther than march Backward |