. The National Civic Federation review . out-set, should become familiar with the business conditionsthat confront the establishment in which the work isbeing applied. The welfare worker must be patient toendure the slow realization of plans. Keen competitionor the rapid growth of a business may either retard ortemporarily prevent the execution of plans whose desira-bility is recognized. One of the difficulties that this new profession encoun-ters is the adjustment of its delicate relations to the su-perintendents. There must be a gradual process of con-vincing them that the presence in an est
. The National Civic Federation review . out-set, should become familiar with the business conditionsthat confront the establishment in which the work isbeing applied. The welfare worker must be patient toendure the slow realization of plans. Keen competitionor the rapid growth of a business may either retard ortemporarily prevent the execution of plans whose desira-bility is recognized. One of the difficulties that this new profession encoun-ters is the adjustment of its delicate relations to the su-perintendents. There must be a gradual process of con-vincing them that the presence in an establishment ofa welfare manager will not interfere with their disci-pline or lessen their responsibility, but will bring aboutin time a gain in results of intelligent and harmoniousco-operation. Ckkthide Reeks. A VAST FIELD OF ENDEAVOR. By R. W. Corwin, M. D, Superintendent Welfare Department, 1 he Colorado l:ueland Iron Co., Pueblo, welfare work of the Colorado Fuel & IronCompany \i organized under the title of Sociological. Department. Its field covers forty properties consist-ing of coal, manganese, and iron mines, coking andsteel plants, rolling mills and two railroads. Theseproperties are scattered through portions of four Statesand give employment, when in full operation, to nearly17,000 men, who, together with their families, make atotal of well nigh 80,000 persons. This population issettled in many small communities and comprises thirty-two nationalities speaking twenty-seven differenttongues, not to mention a variety of dialects. In a field of such magnitude and highly differenttopographical conditions, concentration of effort isimpossible. What might be done with comparativelylittle effort and expense were these families all concen-trated in one city, becomes at once a much more diffi-cult and expensive task with conditions as they actu-ally exist. For the successful prosecution of the workthe Welfare Department enlists the services of asuperintendent and assis
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