Show t G 1 z employment OF DRINKING MEN aim AB an byon by on of uncle sams iture aus tat je earcular e n several inquiries iraa eat out b by cyb th the united states state commissioner InIss ioner of labor several months ago to g persons and companies empio employing yin aa a large number of wen men the object of vf the az investigation 11 thus instituted was to ascertain something W about ut the relations of the 1 habit it to labor bar or over es establishments which employ nearly two million ill on men re P piled the answers have hare almost t the sis sig ce of a census the therefore f commissioner wright has just published a a summary of them out t of employers ra said that they were a accustomed omed to consider whether a person was in fh the th habit of drinking when they were asked to give ve any sort of tatter 6 place who the employers who J alvo did not take this matter into consideration num numbered bored 1613 the industries represented in this report re U t were agriculture manufactures m mining n band and quarrying trade and transportation porta por tation 3 n the largest percentage of employers who inquired about drinking was long among those engaged in trade and transportation por tation the means used to find out about an applicants apt 1 P 11 cants t s habits were usually direct inquiry q U 1 nu reputation and personal appearance the e reasons afons assigned 3 8 ignec for taking a mans habits into c consideration 0 n were to ku kud guard d against accidents because of responsibility of position and because of unreliability of drinking men dishonesty abuse of animals the employers employer disgust for drinking men and tho the importance of example to other employed emp loyes were also urged in explanation of the practice x in r reply e IT to the question quentio n whether men were we likely e y to spend their money on drink im immediately ediab after drawing 4 their pay SW establishments estr sent an affirmative answer Z 2768 a negative one and 30 said nothing only a small number gave any data as to the means resorted to lor the correction of the evil but discharge change of the day for paying off less frequent payment of wa wages avs and moral suasion were the chief remedies mentioned |