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Show llf KStle Creek : - rrT --is - IS r: K 1 T-iik lira ry V ..j Met an interesting person last Friday at the Provo Plant of the Pleasant Grove Canning Company. He has been an employee for one of America's large food processing companies for 22 years. Currently he is a grader for his company in the Central Utah area. As a boy of 18, he broke in with his company in one of the Eastern States. His first job was that of a box maker. His description of labor la-bor conditions back in the 1930's was most fascinating. Each morning, men rustling for work would que-up outside the company's employment effice. Shortly before 7 a.m. they worked work-ed a ten-hour day the "hiring boss" would step out to inspect the lineup. As the men filed past him he would estimate their age, feel of their arms and legs and appraise their health and agility. The methods meth-ods were much the same as a horse buyer selecting draft animals. ani-mals. Only the cream of the crop were tagged. The rest were waved aside without a word. The pay was 18 cents an hour, with a dozen .men waiting for the job if the worker didn't measure up. There were few of the benefits .jT - - such as those enjoyed by workers nowadays, and of course no Social Security, nor unemployment compensation. com-pensation. Today's younger industrial workers work-ers little realize the improvement that has been made in employer-employee employer-employee relationships, Job scur-ity, scur-ity, working conditions and the hourly wage. .Of course, 18 cents would buy considerable more back in 1933 than it will today; but not ten times as much. Labor unions have done considerable consid-erable to change the deplorable conditions of 25 years ago, but that isn't the whole stoiy. Lawmakers, the American people as a whole and even the much maligned in-dustrialists in-dustrialists have each done their part in improving the lot of the working man. All this is proof, some people to the contrary, that the world is getting better year by year, and the end is not yet. There is much more to be done now, and in the years to come. "The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof," simply means that the resources of this planet belong to all of God's children, to be used by them in the furtherance further-ance of the divine plan of temporal tem-poral salvation. The millennium, if and when it - comes, will not be a sudden change from imperfection to perfection. per-fection. In line with the most modern mod-ern trend.of thought, the much heralded her-alded and longed-for event will come as the result of obedience to the fundamental commandment, "Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself." Within ourselves, we have all that is needed to creat ea heaven on earth. We are on the way. What the next 25 years will bring we may only guess; but we may rest assured that it will be good. So long 'til Thursday. |