-Hl -y,,'."" "I "v» 't '." "v v''^4'ft«-^v5ii.^frfip:?:»^^-^r,^INTEItNATIONAL FALLS PRESS f^3 HHSS iuJ is What FOR HOME BAKING ROYAL HOW DOORS ARE CLOSED TO THE MAN WHO DRINKS —BY C. W. BAINES A remarkable investigation made* to ascertain the attitude of the Below are quoted statements from several of these corporations, great iron and steel producing concerns in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West typical of sixty-odd equally significent statements received: BAKING PbWDER Virginia and Illinois toward alcoholic drink and drinkers has recently We recognize that even the moderate use of liquor is hurtful, and been completed. The facts obtained constitute a» most informing we exert every moral influence to promote abstinence among our temperance document, and, coming from a strictly business source, employees. Absotutely Pure record the reality of "the industrial prohibtion movement." In the The men who do not use liquor at all are the most efficient and name of "Safety First" big businesses are protecting both workmen THE GREATEST BAKE-DAY HELP reliable,and are less liable to be laid off on account of illness.—Lockhart and profits by actively opposing the drink habit and the open saloon. Iron and Steel Company, Pennsylvania. No Alum—No Phosphate One hundred and forty large iron and steel corporations located When it becomes necessary to reduce the force, regular drinkers in these four steel-producing states, some of which operate more are the first ones let go.—The Chicago Railway Equipment Company, than one plant, were included in the investigation. The capital invested Chicago. aggregates considerably more than a billion dollars, and, with We do not allow any liquor on the premises, discharge immediately affiliated concerns, employs hundreds of thousands of men. It is any man under the influence, preach abstinence thdough foremen safe to assume that the attitude of such an immense affiliated business and bulletin board literature, and we are succeeding famously. expresses the temperance sentiment of the large American Most important^ is the fact that our men also see the good of ^t.— FIRST ANNUAL BARGAIN PERIOD business man and employer. Interstate Steel and Iron Company, East Chicago. .. The report was not compiled as a Sunday school document. It is Moderate drinking decreases efficiency and increases accidents, a cold-blooded business and economical deliverance, intended to determine and we advocate total abstinence in every proper way. Men who News (tribune industry's hostility toward adcoholic drink and drinkers, Wkt "Read 'Today's habitually frequent saloons cannot hold positions of responsibility Bulutit Paper" which has been very indefinitely discussed in the public press to Reread" with us.—The American Rolling Mill Company, Middletown, Ohio. throw an illuminating ray of light on its attitude toward the movement From January 31st to March 1st 1916. No one remains a "moderate drinker." They either stop altogether for abstinence and prohibtion in commercial life. or become heavy drinkers. We discharge without mercy men It is one of the strongest temperance documents of this decade who report for work under the influence of liquor.—The Harrisburg the magnitude of the corporations lend force to their utterances. The Daily and Sunday News Tribune to Pipe and Pipe Bending Company. Of one hundred forty corporations communicated with, one hundred MARCH 1st, 1917 for (By Mail Only). When promotions are made men are examined physically, and thirteen replied. Their answers may be classified as follows when signs of liquor are noted on their breath they are rejected, even 1. Of the one hundred thirteen answers, only six permit the use if otherwise O. K. We know from general observation that a man's $3,08 The Daily Only News Tribune to of alcoholic drink in their shops or plants. efficiency is reduced from thirty to fifty per cent through, the use of MARGE lsti for 1917 (By Mail Only) 2. One hundred seven firms, the world's greatest steel and iron alcohol.—The David Bradley Manufacturing Works, Bradley, 111. producers, absolutely prohibit the use of strong drink in their works. jfl The efficiency of a man is reduced in exact proportion to the Almost without exception they testify that the abstainer is more amount of alcohol he drinks. The total abstainer ranks above the Send Postal Card for free Sample \i efficient, more reliable, and that teetotalers alone are considered moderate drinker in reliability and efficiency in all classes of work and Descriptive Booklet, when promotions are made. i' nearly as much as the moderate drinker does above the heavy regular One hundred companies prohibiting drinking during working ADDRESS: 3. drinker.—The Follansbee Furnace Company, Follansbee, West Va. hours, report that they are also doing "everything possible to prevent CIRCULATION DEPT. The moderate use of liquor tends to impair efficiency and reliability, drinking by employees out of working hours." and we do not knowingly employ men who drink, nor advance One corporation discharges any man who enters a saloon going guluty Jfcttis them to positions of authority if they are employed.—The Crane to or from work another suspends such an employee one week for DULUTH, MINN, Company, Chicago. the first offense and for the second he is, usually, discharged. if Eighty-three of the one one hundred thirteen concerns, when r-' The doctrine of heaven and hell has not made the appeal necessary 4. 1 empolying or promoting men discriminate against those who use to get results, but the doctrine of personal efficiency is doing alcoholic liquors, even though they use liquor outside of working and will do a great deal.—The Union Steel Casting Company, Pittsburgh. f'C hours only absolutely refuse to promote men who drink there the "most moderate use of rum is fatal to a man's chance of promotion." Electric signs and posters play no small part in this industrial^ 1847 ROGERS Sixty-three corporations have undertaken constructive abstinence 5. anti-alcohol campaign. Over the main entrance to several steel work, to determine the deleterious influences of the moderate plants can be seen such largs electric transparencies as: use of alcohol upon a workman's efficiency, producing power, and "Did Booze Ever Do You Any Good?" reliability. 'Silver Tlate "Did Booze Ever Get You a Better Job?" 6. TEN CONCERNS NOT ONLY PROHIBIT DRINKING that Wears" "Did Booze Ever Contribute Anything to the DURING WORK HOURS, BUT ABSOLUTELY PROHIBIT EMPLOYEES Happiness^of Your Family?" DRINKING AT ALL TIMES'. Throughout another plant this bulletin, signed by the general Following is a list of these one hundred seven corporations. superintendent and approved by the president, is posted in conspicuous What young man can afford to ignore testimony of such weight and places: magnitude It is a call to every ambitious young American to "cut For the promotion of safety and welfare it is hoped that all employees out liquor," no matter what may have been his previous convictions, will avoid the use of intoxicating liquors. because, as one of thesfe corporations boldly asserts: "Any amount UNDER THE RULES OF THE JOLIET WORKS ANY EM of alcohol is injurious. The day will come when no drinker PLOYEE WHO USES INTOXICATING LIQUOR WHILE ON will even expect to get a job." DUTY WILL BE DISCHARGED. The quotations that follow the list add force to the testimony of In making promotions in all departments of the plant superintendents Silver these big corporations—a testimony that compels attention and gets and foremen will select for promotion ONLY THOSE WHO what it wants. Of Proven Quality DO NOT USE INTOXICATING LIQUOR. Allegheny Steel Co. Lackawanna Steel Co. In addition to such signs and bulletins, every issue of The Mixer Altoona Iron Co. Co. Lebanon Valley Iron and Steel c'it design and refined beauty in knives, forks, spoons and similar plant publications, contains temperance material. Several American Bridge Co. Lessig Co., George B. end fancy serving pieces are not attributes of solid American Car and Foundry Co. concerns require instruction in the principles of abstinence. Mr. Link Belt Co. saverware alone. Theskiil born of long experience has produced American Malleables Co. Lockhart Iron and Steel Co. in the'famous 1847 rogcrs Bros, silver plate effects in H. B. Smith, the Illinois Steel Company's inspector of safety anc American Manganese Manufacturing Co. Steel Co. Logan Iron and pattern and design which make its name for beauty second only labor, says: to its reputation for quality—"Silver Plate that Wears." American Manganese Steel Co. Lukens Iron and Steel Co. When this company instituted measures to promote abstinence catalogue Sold by leading dealers everywhere. Send for American Roller Mill Co. aMckintosh, Hemphill Co. "CL," showing all patterns. and improve the efficiency of their employees, one of the saloons American Sheet and Tin Plate Co. McConway and Torley Co. American Steel Foundries. Ltd. across, the street from the plant used eight bartenders. At the pres INTERNATIONAL SILVER CO.. Mclnnes Steel Co., Successor to Meriden Britannia Co. American Steel and Wire Co. Marion Malleable Iron Works. ent time it uses two. MERIDEN, CONN. Andrews and Hitchcock Iron Co. Marion Steel Shovel Co. Perhaps the most significant fact developed was the ifniversal umvi Berkshire Iron Works. Marting Iron and Steel Co. recognition that even the moderate use of alcohol has a distinctly distil Bradley Manufacturing Co., David Maryland Steel Co. bad effect upona workman's efficiency and reliability there seem to Buchanan Electric Steel Co. Missouri Malleable Iron Co. Buckeye Rolling Mill Co.. Moorhead, Brother and Co. 3QMTC be no "two opinions" on this particular point. The moderate drinker Byers Co., A. M. Newburgh Furnace. is, without exception, rated as an "undesirable employee," even Cambria Steel Co. Newburgh Steel Works. though he may never have known to get drunk. Drinking, no matter FreeTrial Canton Malleable Iron Co. Nicetown Plate Washer Co. how moderate, slams the door of promotion to responsible positions Central Iron and Steel Co. Olin Steel Foundry Co. and better pay into a workman's own face. Chicago Malleable Casting Co. Oliver Chilled Plow Works. Chicago Railway Equipment Co. Otis Steel Co. Speaking of this movement, a liquor trade magazine said: Cleveland Furnace Co. Machine Co. Penn Steel Castings and One of the most pregnant signs of the times is the steady and increasing Columbia Tool Steel Co. Pennsylvania Steel Co. tendency of big corporations to encroach upon the persona Columbus Iron and Steel Co. Phillips Sheet Tin Plate Co. V* liberties of workers. Crane Company. Co. Pittsburgh Knift and Forge Dayton Malleable Iron Co. Reading Iron Co. The Brewers'Journal remarks: Dayton Steel Foundry Co. Reading Steel Casting Co. There are even companies and individual employers who threaten DeFore^t Sheet and Tin Plate Co. Reeves Manufacturing Co. to discharge employees for drinking alcohol at any time. They do Duquesne Steel Foundry Co. Reliance Steel Casting Co. not care if that is social and economical slavery. Their main object Eberhard Manufacturing Co. Robesonia Iron Co., Ltd. is to protect their pocketbooks. Emma Furnace. Rockford Malleable Iron Works. Empire Rolling Mill Co. Rogers Shear Co. And well might these interests be alarmed, for what will become Your Choice of Ninety-Four (94) Styles Empire Steel and -Iron Co. Scranton Bolt and Nut Co. of the open saloon when the employees in our large manufacturing Farrel-Cheek Steel Foundry Co. Seaboard Steel Casting Co. quit them? This may explain the $23,390,000 decrease in revenue on Ferguson Tin ?late Co. of "Ranger" Bicycles, shown in full color in our big new Catalogue just off the press. Thereare Slatington Rolling Mills. eighty-three (S3) others, also, shown at prices ranging from $11.75, $13.75, $1B.7& booze reported the last fiscal year. Fiagg, Stanley and Co. Spang, Chalfant & Cp., Inc. up. There is a MEAD Bicycle for cveiyf rider, at a price made possible only by our FACTOR Y-DIBECT-TO-BIDER sales plan. Follansbee Bros. Co. Springfield Malleable Inon Co. 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