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Foremen: Spark Plugs or Grounded Wires
Excerpt from Spark Plugs or Grounded Wires
I want to tell you men something right No man has any business talking about how to handle working men until he has worn overalls, has sweat with men, gone hungry with men, fought with men, and knows from actual hard earned experience what a working man's heart really is. (Long applause.)
Two Kinds Of College Men
I have met, face to face, a few dormitory theorists who have written a great deal about the shortcomings of foremen. It was a rare treat, I assure you. But after an hours conversation with some of these men I became thoroughly convinced that if they would have written a book on what they didn't know about the working man, they would have been millionaires long since. (Laughter.) Don't get me wrong! I have the greatest admiration in the world for a man with a college education. If a man wants to study law after he receives his education in a good college, you will find that his next step is a daily attendance in smelly courtrooms where cases are being tried, so as to get an actual contact experience with their profession. And that is good. We find doctors who spend many years in great institutions of learning, spending other years, when they graduate, as hospital interns, and working in free clinics where they may get actual experience with the main particulars of the profession they are going to follow.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
I want to tell you men something right No man has any business talking about how to handle working men until he has worn overalls, has sweat with men, gone hungry with men, fought with men, and knows from actual hard earned experience what a working man's heart really is. (Long applause.)
Two Kinds Of College Men
I have met, face to face, a few dormitory theorists who have written a great deal about the shortcomings of foremen. It was a rare treat, I assure you. But after an hours conversation with some of these men I became thoroughly convinced that if they would have written a book on what they didn't know about the working man, they would have been millionaires long since. (Laughter.) Don't get me wrong! I have the greatest admiration in the world for a man with a college education. If a man wants to study law after he receives his education in a good college, you will find that his next step is a daily attendance in smelly courtrooms where cases are being tried, so as to get an actual contact experience with their profession. And that is good. We find doctors who spend many years in great institutions of learning, spending other years, when they graduate, as hospital interns, and working in free clinics where they may get actual experience with the main particulars of the profession they are going to follow.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
36 pages, Paperback
First published August 4, 2015
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