. The National Civic Federation review . tion of hefw to buildhouses for the workers at a cost which would afford A Comprehensive, Compact and Phil-osophic Review of Its Growthand Practice. (By H. II. Vreeland.) II. II. Vreeland, Chairman of the Wel-fare Department of the National CivicFederation and President of the NewYork City Railway Company, deliveredan address upon Welfare Work beforetin- New England Cotton ManufacturersAssociation, at Atlantic City, September20. Mr. Vreeland opened his address withthe statement that there had been notime for fifteen years when there wereless than 15,000
. The National Civic Federation review . tion of hefw to buildhouses for the workers at a cost which would afford A Comprehensive, Compact and Phil-osophic Review of Its Growthand Practice. (By H. II. Vreeland.) II. II. Vreeland, Chairman of the Wel-fare Department of the National CivicFederation and President of the NewYork City Railway Company, deliveredan address upon Welfare Work beforetin- New England Cotton ManufacturersAssociation, at Atlantic City, September20. Mr. Vreeland opened his address withthe statement that there had been notime for fifteen years when there wereless than 15,000 men on his pay-roll di-rectly, and indirectly 15,000 more, andthat, therefore, he bad nothing theoreticsto present, but appeared as a practicaman willi a message to practical men. lie spoke (jf the necessity of carryingon Welfare Work in a cooperative waywith the employes, making them a partof it. and said that (lie mistake which hadbeen made in the past was the placing of Welfare Wbrl< on charity basis, whenit would never a return for the investment while keeping the rentwithin its proportion of the cost of living of the wageearners. This question of housing was accompaniedby the correlative necessity of providing for these com-munities schools for the children, and churches, whichshould in some measure be the social centers of thetowns, in addition to their moral influence and train-ing. Indeed, some of the first efforts in the United State9to introduce Welfare Work were begun by manu-facturers of cotton goods. One corporation board-ing house, as it was called, at Lowell. Mass., affordedevidence, not only of the employers interest in regu-lating the price of board, but of the necessity of hous-ing in order to secure the necessary operatives. The growth of the municipality and the introduc-tion of electric rapid transit, making possible homesin the country, have now rendered unnecessary someof these corporation boarding houses. The five corJporations that manufa
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