Men and Things - Henry A. Atkinson

Women and Children

Abbott, Edith. Women in Industry. 1916. Daniel Appleton & Company, New York. $2.50.

Addams, Jane. The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets. 1909. Macmillan Company, New York. 50 cents.

Henry, Alice. The Trade Union Woman. 1915. Daniel Appleton & Co., New York. $1.50.

Fraser, Helen. Woman and War Work. 1918. G. Arnold Shaw, New York. $1.50.

MacLean, Annie M. Wage-Earning Women. 1910. Macmillan Company, New York. $1.25.

MacLean, Annie M. Women Workers and Society. 1916. A. C. McClurg, Chicago. 50 cents.

Mangold, George B. Child Problems. 1917. Macmillan Company, New York. $1.25.

Schreiner, Olive. Woman and Labor. 1911. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. $1.25.

The Church and Social Conditions

Atkinson, Henry A. The Church and the People’s Play. 1915. Pilgrim Press, Boston. $1.25.

Cutting, R. Fulton. The Church and Society. 1912. Macmillan Company, New York. $1.25.

Felton, Ralph A. A Study of a Rural Parish. 1915. Missionary Education Movement, New York. 50 cents.

Gates, Herbert W. Recreation and the Church. 1917. University Press, Chicago. $1.00.

Harrison, Shelby M.; Tippy, Worth M.; Ward, Harry F.; and Atkinson, Henry A. What Every Church Should Know about Its Community. Federal Council of Churches, New York. 10 cents.

Hughan, Jessie W. The Facts of Socialism. 1913. John Lane Company, New York. 75 cents.

Mangold, George B. The Challenge of St. Louis. 1917. Missionary Education Movement, New York. 60 cents.

Marsh, Daniel L. The Challenge of Pittsburgh. 1917. Missionary Education Movement, New York. 60 cents.

Mathews, Shailer. The Individual and the Social Gospel. 1914. Missionary Education Movement, New York. 25 cents.

Rauschenbusch, Walter. Christianity and the Social Crisis. 1907. Macmillan Company, New York. 50 cents.

Rauschenbusch, Walter. The Social Principles of Jesus. 1916. Association Press, New York. 50 cents.

Roberts, Richard. The Church in the Commonwealth. 1918. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. $1.00.

Spargo, John. The Spiritual Significance of Socialism. 1912. B. W. Huebsch, New York. 50 cents.

Vedder, Henry C. The Gospel of Jesus and the Problem of Democracy. 1914. Macmillan Company, New York. $1.50.

White, Charles L. The Churches at Work. 1915. Missionary Education Movement, New York. 60 cents.

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]