Chapter I: Front Matter

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CUTTING STEEL FOR SHIPS WITH GIGANTIC SHEARS.

These workers are the servants of civilization and without them we would have no such trade as we have to-day.]

MEN AND THINGS

BY
HENRY A. ATKINSON

SECRETARY, SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES
AND ASSOCIATE SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION ON THE CHURCHES
AND SOCIAL SERVICE OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL OF THE
CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN AMERICA

NEW YORK
MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT
OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
1918

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT OF THE
UNITED STATES AND CANADA

CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING MISSION STUDY

Send the proper one of the following blanks to the secretary of your denominational mission board whose address is in the “List of Mission Boards and Correspondents” at the end of this book.

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We expect to form a mission study class, and desire to have any
suggestions that you can send that will help in organizing and
conducting it.

Name ............................................................

Street and Number ...............................................

City or Town ..................... State ........................

Denomination ..................... Church .......................

Text-book to be used ............................................

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We have organized a mission study class and secured our books.
Below is the enrolment.

Name of City or Town .................... State .................

Text-book ......................... Underline auspices under
which class is held:
Denomination ......................
Church Y. P. Soc.
Church ............................ Men Senior
Women’s Soc. Intermediate
Name of Leader .................... Y. W. Soc. Junior
Sunday School
Address ...........................

Name of Pastor .................... Date of starting ............

State whether Mission Study Class, Frequency of Meetings .......
Lecture Course, Program Meetings,
or Reading Circle ............... Number of Members ...........

................................. Does Leader desire Helps? ...

Chairman, Missionary Committee, Young People’s Society ...........

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Address ....................................................

Chairman, Missionary Committee, Sunday School ....................

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Address ....................................................

TO MY FATHER

THE REV. THOMAS A. ATKINSON

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

Foreword xiii

I The World of Work 1

II The World of the Rural Workers 17

III The World of the Spinners and Weavers 33

IV The World of the Garment Workers 49

V The World of the Miners 65

VI The World of the Steel Workers 79

VII The World of the Transportation Men 95

VIII The World of the Makers of Luxuries 113

IX The World of Seasonal Labor and the Casual Workers 135

X The World of Industrial Women 155

XI The World of the Child Workers 173

XII The Message and Ministry of the Church 191

Bibliography 211

Index 215

ILLUSTRATIONS

These workers are the servants of civilization _Frontispiece_

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The work which men do inevitably groups them together 10

Not many of us stop to consider the man who made possible the
white bread that we eat 18

The worker in these mills is a worker and little or nothing else 42

The workers on the sidewalks of Fifth Avenue 50

We forget the men who are toiling underground 66

The New U. S. Bureau of Mines Rescue Car 74

Commerce and transportation are dependent upon the steel workers 82

The church must preach from the text “A man is more precious
than a bar of steel” 90

Living upon the canal-boats and barges are the families of the
workers 106

The cigarmakers carry no moral enthusiasm into their trade 122

The casual workers are the true servants of humanity 146

In the army of laborers the girl and the woman are drafted 162

Thousands of children in America are doing work which they
ought not to do 186

A Russian Forum in session in the Church of All Nations, Boston 194

The Church of All Nations provided a sleeping place for the
unemployed 202

“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.”