I saw no advantage in giving a man a place in the business, with perhaps authority over others, who hadn’t gotten some grease, blood, and dirt on his hands and gone home at night with aching muscles, since every “clean” job rested on the man who had a “dirty” one. This rubbed out any illusions a man had about being “better” because he had different capacities or had gone away to school. And it gave the bright, young men we were trying to attract into the business a wholesome respect for the manual labor on which it rested and a speaking acquaintance with the men who make it possible.
Respect for workers
