Men and Things

INDEX

• A
• Accidents, in mining, 72, 73;
• in steel-mills, 85, 86;
• on railroads, 99–101
• Actors, Church Alliance and Fund, 130;
• off the stage, 128
• Anthony, Susan B., referred to, 162
• Anthracite coal areas, 69
• Anti-loafer laws, 152
• Apathy of mill workers, 91
• Arbitration in clothing industry, 60, 61
• Architecture and present use of steel, 79–81
• Artificial flowers, 132
• B
• Bag and hemp factory conditions, 165
• Baker Manufacturing Company, 93
• Banana boat and rush unloading, 137
• Baptist East Side churches in New York City, 205
• Bargains in ready-made clothing, 55
• Bathtubs and buttons, 114
• Beet, culture, 20, 174, 175;
• sugar, 20;
• use of child labor, 20, 21, 174, 175, 185
• Bessemer steel, 82–84
• Bible, study class members, Y. W. C. A., 4, 5;
• unopened to Jewish radicals, 62
• Billy Sunday meetings, 195
• Bituminous coal-fields, 69
• Booth, Maud Ballington, referred to, 162
• Brakeman, accident to a, 100
• Brick and mortar not the soul of the city, 33
• Bridge cables, steel, 82
• Burley tobacco, 173
• C
• Canada, western grain-belt, 17
• Cane-sugar makers, 18, 19
• Casual workers and the common man, 153
• Casualty lists. See Accidents
• Catholics, 90, 120, 194, 196
• Cemeteries, well-tended Western, 27
• Chaplain beloved, a, 203
• Chicago, Industrial Exhibition, picture of a mother, 58;
• stock-yards, 150
• Child labor, in agriculture, 174–185;
• in home work, 58;
• reasons for, 176;
• task of the church, 187–189
• Child Labor Law, Federal, very helpful but unconstitutional, 185
• Child Labor, National Committee on, 188;
• Sunday, 188
• “Children in Agriculture,” quoted, 175
• Children’s Bureau in Washington, D. C., 90
• China, actors in, 130
• Christ. See Jesus Christ
• Christmas-time work, 139
• Church, duty of, 197;
• responsibility, 151, 152;
• statistics of per cent. of working people, 194;
• work, past and present, 28, 191–209;
• with country people, 27–32;
• with factory folks, 46–48;
• with garment-makers, 62, 63;
• with miners, 75–78;
• with rail and vessel forces, 109–111;
• with steel workers, 91–94;
• with Tampa cigarmakers, 122, 123;
• with theater people, 130;
• with transient classes, 150–153;
• with women and children, 169–171, 187–189
• Churches, criticism of, 194;
• faulty distribution of, 127;
• indifference to, 195
• Cigarmakers, 116–120;
• social worker’s story, 125
• City and country life depicted and distinguished, 1, 23, 24
• City church statistics, 194
• Clothes and civilization, 34
• Clothing industry, 54;
• labor troubles in, 58–61;
• materials, 34–36
• Coal, importance of, 65, 66;
• mining methods and miners, 67–74
• Cœur d’Alene district, Idaho, 68, 75
• Cold storage, 178
• Conservation, of fuel, 11;
• of wheat, 18
• Consumers’ League, 52, 171
• Cooper Union, New York City, a social center, 62
• Cooperation, 170, 184;
• among the churches, 200
• Copper, 68, 69, 74
• Corn and hogs, price of, 21
• Corn belt, 21
• Cost of living, 9, 178
• Cotton, 36, 37;
• importance increased by the invention of the cotton-gin, 37
• Cotton-mills and workers, in Northern cities, 34, 44–46;
• in Southern towns and villages, 40–43, 47
• Coxey’s army, 135–137
• Cuban traits, 121
• D
• Dressmaking industry, 53
• Du Page County, Illinois, Presbyterian Church, 206
• Duty of the church, the, 197
• E
• Early ambitions, 3
• Early Christians, influence of, 203
• Effects of specialization in work, 7
• Efficient women in war and other work, 159–165
• Eliot, George, referred to, 162
• Engineer, the, and the world war, 98–101;
• wish to renew service, 99
• Evansville, Wisconsin, Manufacturing Company, 93
• F
• Factory system, 7
• Fall River factories, 34
• Farm life, 23
• Fashion and clothes, a shop-girl’s comment, 51
• Fatalism of steel-mill workers, 91
• Feudal castles and modern mills compared, 33
• Fictitious barriers in society, 204, 205
• Fifth Avenue, New York City, 49, 61
• Film making, 43, 131, 132
• “Fine art of living, the,” 6
• Fire and coal, 65
• Fishing village preacher’s report, 3, 4
• Food-producing industries, 21
• Ford Hall, Boston, a social center, 62
• Foreign element on Western farms, 27
• Formaldehyde used in a church, 151, 152
• French Revolution conditions, 179
• Fuel administrator, 66
• Furs, 126
• Furuseth, Andrew, work for the sailors, 108, 109
• G
• Garment makers, 51–53, 57–63
• Garment Makers’ Union, New York City, 50
• Garment workers in New York City, 49, 50, 53, 55–58, 61–63
• Gentleman, deeper than outward marks, 204
• Girl clerks’ wages affected by “pin-money” competitors, 164, 165
• God, question of an immigrant woman, 191;
• work for the community, 209
• Gold and silver mining, 69
• Government ownership of railroads, 106
• Grain belts of Canada and the United States, 17
• Group needs and the church, 13, 14
• H
• Havana and Key West, 116
• Health of garment workers, 56
• Henry, Miss Alice, quoted, 162, 165, 166
• Herring, Rev. Hubert C., referred to, 27
• Home, importance of, 156;
• work conditions, 57
• Home mission work, pressing need for, 30
• Hookworm, 41
• Hoover, Mr., 18
• Housing conditions and the cost of living, 9
• Howe, Julia Ward, referred to, 162
• I
• Idaho, labor legislation in, 146
• Immigrant, mill workers, 89;
• woman and God, 191;
• women in Saint Louis, 166
• I. W. W., code, 142;
• efforts in East Tampa, 121;
• street song in Seattle, 141, 142
• Industrial, army, questions raised, 135;
• classes created, 8
• Inefficiency, causes of, 148
• “Infant Mortality” statistics, 90
• Institutional churches, 203
• Interdependence, 10
• International Seamen’s Union, 108
• Interstate Commerce Commission, 105
• Iron, 69, 80–83
• Italians, 49, 56, 57, 63, 67
• J
• Jesus Christ, 12, 187, 200–202, 204, 209
• Jewelry industry, 132
• Jewish characteristics, 54
• Jews, 49, 53–56, 62, 63, 194
• Johnstown, Pennsylvania, mill workers, 89
• Judson Memorial Baptist Church, New York City, 63
• Juvenile court case in Tampa, Florida, 122
• K
• Kelly, Mrs. Florence, referred to, 52
• Kerensky, mistake of, 22
• King, Henry Churchill, quoted, 6
• L
• Landlord and tenant, 25
• Lawrence, Massachusetts, cotton-mills, 34
• Lead and zinc, 68, 69
• Life in the Southern mill village, 40–44, 47
• Livermore, California, railroad wreck, 99
• Loom, contrast between earlier and later, 36–38
• Lovejoy, Owen R., quoted, 186;
• referred to, 188
• Lowell, Massachusetts, cotton-mills, 34
• Loyalty, labor’s lack of, 7
• Lumber companies of the Northwest, bad conditions for laborers, 144, 145
• Luxuries, defined, 114, 115;
• examples of producers of, 116–134;
• harmless and hurtful, 115
• M
• Machinery, 37;
• has subordinated man, 46
• McIntire, Miss Ruth, quoted, 175
• Manufacture of clothing materials, 35, 36
• Maverick Church in East Boston, 205
• Men, as users of clothes, 34;
• as creators of things, 15
• Metal mine workers, 74;
• wages, 75
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, picture referred to, 84
• Michigan Central Railroad accident, 100
• Migratory workers, 143
• Millinery, 132, 139
• Mills and workers, 33–47;
• experience of a family, 44, 45
• Mine workers, accidents, 72;
• forgotten, 67;
• wages, 73, 75
• Minerals, valuable, 65, 68
• Mining town, life in a, 5, 6
• Missionary work at home, 127
• Morgan Memorial Church, Boston, 198
• Morris, William, demand for joy in work, 6
• Motion-pictures, 43;
• theater statistics, 130–132
• Motorman a suicide, 107
• Municipal ownership, San Francisco, 108
• N
• Napoleon, anecdote of, 201
• National Child Labor Committee, 175, 181
• National Consumers’ League, 52
• Negro philosophy of work, 115;
• work and wages on sugar plantation, 19, 20
• Neighborliness, 11, 12
• New York Herald, referred to, 119
• Nickel, of Canada, 68
• Northern textile workers, 44;
• Southern groups, 40
• O
• “Open shop,” 45;
• in steel mills, 42
• Organization, of labor, 7;
• of men questioning women’s admission to labor unions, 167–169;
• of women workers, 165
• Oriental visitor’s comment on American civilization, 79
• P
• Peace of the world and the bread question, 22
• Philanthropy, city, 24
• Pilgrim mothers, 162
• “Pin-money” workers affecting regular wages, 164
• Pioneers in the West and their descendants, 27, 31
• Pittsburgh has bad housing conditions for steel workers, 89
• Play and relaxation, 6, 207
• Plymouth Church, Oakland, California, 205
• Professor Parker’s report of I. W. W. in California, 142
• Profit-sharing, 92, 93
• R
• Racial and residential phrases used by rival boy groups, 9;
• more general racial groups, 55, 56
• Railroads, casualty lists, 99;
• churches and, 106;
• expenses and profits, 103, 104;
• government ownership, 106;
• system statistics, 98;
• work and workers, 99, 102
• Ranch life, 3
• Reader in Tampa, Florida, cigar factory, 119
• Ready-made clothing bargains, 54, 55
• “Red Jacket” mine, 74
• Restless Americans, 95
• “Riding out a bill,” 95
• Right to work a just demand, 146;
• helping agencies, 147
• Robbins, Mrs. Raymond, referred to, 168
• Rochester, New York, address at the City Club, 108
• Rolling-mill, 84;
• statistics, 86
• Rural community study, 26–28, 30.
• Russian, labor, 21;
• revolution and the food question, 22;
• unexpected collapse, 183
• S
• “Sacred Motherhood,” 58
• Safety devices for railroad trains, 100
• Saint Louis, factory conditions and women workers in, 165, 166
• Saint Patrick and the Irish snakes, 183
• Salvation of the individual the ultimate aim, 208
• Scranton, Pennsylvania, coal famine in, 178
• Seattle, song of the vagabond workers, 139;
• success of minister’s experiment with “blanket stiffs,” 147
• Selfishness and greed back of child labor, 176
• Serving humanity, 133
• Silk, 35
• Sinclair, Upton, story referred to, 150
• Skyscraper significant of America, 79
• Social, centers formed by the churches, 205–209;
• salvation and the wage-earners, 192
• Social Service, Commission, 199;
• Department of Congregational churches, 26
• Socialism and the church, 31
• Socialized church as an inspiring force, 202, 203
• Song of the world of work heard in the city’s roar, 2
• Soubrette Row, 130
• Soul of the city, 33
• Soup kitchens, 151
• Southern mill village, life in, 40–47
• Spencer, Herbert, quoted, 6
• State laws for home work, special provision needed, 58
• State University rural work in Wisconsin, 26
• Steel production, 80–89;
• manufacture, 80–83;
• statistics, 79, 80;
• uses, 80–82;
• workers and working conditions, 86–89
• Stencil work deforming a hand, 180
• Stock-owning, 92, 93
• Stock-yards of Chicago, 150
• Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher, referred to, 162
• Street-car men’s wages, 107
• Strikes: on street-car lines, 108;
• one striker’s case, 45
• Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 199
• Sugar-beet culture, 20;
• child workers in, 174
• Sugar-cane fields, processes and workers, 19
• Summer use of furs, 126
• Sweat-shop system, 52, 57
• T
• Tampa, Florida, churches, 121–123;
• cigar factory, 119;
• conditions, 120, 124;
• statistics, 116
• Task system, 53
• Taylor, Florence I., effect of mill work on boys, 181
• Tenant farmer, 25
• Textile industries, Northern and Southern wages and workers, 40, 44
• Theater as a medium of luxury, 128–130
• Theories concerning the Pyramids, 96
• “Tired Business Man,” the, 4
• Tobacco, for cigars, 117, 118;
• for the Burley demands, 173;
• “worming” done by children, 173, 174
• Trade Union Woman, The, quoted, 162, 166
• Tramp as a product of labor conditions, 143–150
• Transportation, 96;
• and progress, 97;
• other than railways, 107;
• workers largely unknown to us, 109–111
• Trappers, 126
• Triangle Shirt Waist Company fire, 50
• Trotzky’s success turned on supplying food, 22
• Tuberculosis statistics, 124
• Typical life of busy women illustrated, 5
• U
• Unemployed, problem of, 56, 137;
• regulation of industry, 146;
• war changes, 145, 152
• Union Garment Makers’, 50
• United States, Bulletin of Labor, quoted, 124;
• Bureau of Labor, statistics from, 39;
• coal-mine statistics, 65, 66;
• Public Health Service, report quoted, 56;
• Steel Corporation, concessions, 92
• Urge of work, the, 1
• V
• Vagabond workers, in Seattle, 139;
• poem, 141
• Valuable non-essentials, 115
• W
• Wales, singing by miners a means of progress, 141
• War, asking the employment of childhood, 186, 187;
• requirements in communities, 207;
• talks in New York City churches, 205
• Washington state, a parish in, 144
• Watered stock, 105
• Welfare of the American seaman cared for by Act of Congress, 109
• Welfare work in mining communities, 75, 76;
• plan for Colorado, 77
• Wetz, James E., Chicago egg-king, 178
• Wheat, 17
• Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, referred to, 27
• Willard, Frances E., referred to, 162
• Williamsburg Bridge, cost and materials, 82
• Winnipeg, prosperity of, 17
• Wisconsin townships, survey of three, 26
• Woman, former disadvantages, 155, 156;
• present opportunities, 156–164
• Women, needed service of the church for, 169–171;
• organization of, 165–169
• Women’s National Trade Union League, the, 168, 171
• Wool, production and manufacture of, 35
• Work, vocabulary of, 3
• “Wormin’ time,” 174
• Y
• Young Men’s Christian Association, 77