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This Jersey Community of Working People Appears to Have Solved Many Problems In Short Existence. A Pioneer In City Manager Plan. ITen years ago practically the whole body of the Roebling workers lived In I the cities as they had been living for I decades before in the decayed tene- I monks that clustered about the great shops. With its fellow industries the Roebling plant fought its way throughstrikes, lockouts, changes of working force, poorly done work, all the tribulations that harass capital. We've got to make the best of these things,” explained the other manufacturers.“No,” objected the Rocbliugs. ‘‘We’ve got to malic these things better.”Such was the origin of Itoebling, N, .1. : Established for nine years, tills town ;of Roebling has passed safely the precarious stage of immaturity that has proved fatal to so many similar projects. It has grown and flourished, has provided its founders with labor that is competent to produce the highest grade of work and has secured for these workers the highest comfort, health and happiness at the least expense. On the paper of theory the project was fantastic; on the books of fact it has proved highly practicable and profitable. Prom Its'Inception the policy that has dominated and controlled Roebling has been autocratic, patriarchal. The Roebling company owns all land, houses, Industries, stores, even the police and Are departments. The company supplies work and shelters the worker, and should that worker prove unworthy ho is summarily discharged and deprived not I only of his wages, but of his habitation as well. Out he must go, hag and baggage, beyond the village limits.Whether this policy of paternalism is responsible for the success of Roebling or whether the town has succeeded inSWISSheld start | vll* Ford, Ians., the sr of kson,svhitei and 24 th 1 im-f An-idem ition, ;rs ofitionse re-o the take
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Gainesville News
Gainesville, Georgia, US
Wed, Apr 22, 1914
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