INDEX
Reading edition
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