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Title: Men and things
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Atkinson, Henry Avery, b. 1877
Subjects: Working class -- United States Christian sociology
Publisher: New York : Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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le the prices are high. The reason that theGermans hold so stubbornly to northern France is be-cause of the rich coal and iron mines in the region. Foryears following the war there will be an extraordinarydemand for an increased output of coal, iron, copper,and zinc, in fact, for all of the metals. The task of re-building the areas will demand not only ingenuity, butall the resources of all the nations combined. The Producers of Coal. You have no doubt seenthe women and children with their baskets picking upcoal along the railroad tracks on the edge of the city.That small basket of coal will probably be all the fuelthat many of them have. It is a common sight to seethe little foreign boys bringing home packing-boxes andthe lids of boxes that they have begged from the storesto take the place of the coal they cannot get. Thoseamong us who live in steam-heated apartments, or incommunities near the coal-fields or wooded areas, do notrealize what a constant struggle is required on the part
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Z^^aL/^J^Jsd .i«».v->» . -i. CopyriRlif. Cmln^ I .iinl I inln u cmI. We forget tile men vvlio are toiling undergronnil. THE MINERS dl of the poor people in the cities to keep coal enougli inthe stove lo prevent the family from freezing. Theonly times 1 was really warm enough last winter, said aSlovenian woman in Chicago, was when I went tochurch, and then I had to keep my head muflled up.It was said of a group of Italians in Boston, The mengo to the saloon, the women to tlie church, both for thesame purpose,—to get good and warm. Just as we sometimes fail to realize how many peopleare working for us to make our clothes or to produceour food, so we forget the men who are toiling under-ground to dig the coal and mine the iron upon whichwe are so dependent for our every-day living. The citydweller especially is dependent upon the supply of coalthat comes to him through retail sources, but in orderto bring that coal to the city there has been a long lineof workers, each one puttin

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