Catalogue Of An Exhibition Of Original Drawings And Lithographs Of War Work In America

Author : Joseph Pennell
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ISBN 13 : 9781332775804
Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of an Exhibition of Lithographs of War Work in the United States (Classic Reprint) written by Joseph Pennell and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-26 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of Lithographs of War Work in the United States Ihave never passed such an interesting - such an exciting - suchone such facilities - such aid, such encouragement given him to record its wonder - and by the governments of the three great countries which are engaged in this incredibly horrible, absolutely unnecessary war. Not only have I seen the Wonder of Work in these three lands but before the war I saw it in Belgium, Germany and Italy. I have drawn it everywhere, save in Luxemburg, and there too I have seen it but made no drawings - for it was so easy to get to that land - and so that country was put off for a more convenient season - a season which I fear will never come again. I am not going to make compari sons - but I am going to say that the Wonder of Work is more wonder ful in the United States than anywhere else in the world to-day. True, we are not working with that unbelievable energy which the French and English - yes, the English - have put at last into their work - but we do so much more - with so much less appearance of work - we are working for the Allies - but they are not working for us. And we are doing for them what they cannot do for themselves. In Europe the war worker works all day and every day in the year. Here most of the great industrial works have only added war work to their peace work. In Europe scarce anything else but war work is being done. And also in America the women have not to any extent gone into the factories, mills and ship yards of the country. And I hope they never will. I have never seen a woman shell maker here, only women making fuses and doing other light work, yet I know of fac tories in France and England where there are scarce any work people save women - one where there are ten thousand - but I have not seen a woman at a lathe, in this country. I have never seen a woman ship builder here, yet I have seen women in ship yards abroad doing work that men would have grumbled at when put to it - because it was thought hard work - before the war. And I am glad that our women are not forced to undertake such work, and hope they never may be; for I have seen the black side of this work, which already has led to strikes and labor troubles in Europe - and when the war is over will lead to greater trouble - for the cap tains of industry in Europe tell me that women run machines better than men - they devote themselves to the machine - never try to improve it - to make changes in it - only to keep it going and in good order; while the man is always trying to improve it, to make it do more, so that he can do less - stick matches in it, one manager said - while the women just run the machines as they are shown how. 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.