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The Iron Puddler - My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It (Paperback)
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The Iron Puddler - My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It (Paperback)
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Loot Price R442
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"Life in these mills is a terrible life," the reformers say. "Men
are ground down to scrap and are thrown out as wreckage." This may
be so, but my life was spent in the mills and I failed to discover
it. I went in a stripling and grew into manhood with muscled arms
big as a bookkeeper's legs. The gases, they say, will destroy a
man's lungs, but I worked all day in the mills and had wind enough
left to toot a clarinet in the band. I lusted for labor, I worked
and I liked it. -from "Scene in a Rolling Mill" In 1921, JAMES JOHN
DAVIS was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Warren Harding,
and would go on to also serve Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. The
next year, he published this gung-ho autobiography, a paean to the
hard work and perseverance that fueled his rise to personal and
professional success. Born in Wales, Davis (1873-1947) emigrated
with his family to Pennsylvania, where he worked in the steel mills
from the age of 11, acquiring the strength of character and
learning the lessons in honor, duty, and honesty that would serve
him well later in life, when from his position of prominence he was
instrumental in eliminating the 12-hour workday, improving
relations between labor and management, and establishing a
prevocational school Mooseheart, Illinois, which young boys and
girls were taught the fundamentals of industrial arts. A stalwart,
hearty depiction of the American dream in action, The Iron Puddler
is not merely one man's story, and a fascinating and inspiring one
at that... it is a universal story of the integrity and industry
that built America.
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