EMPLOYEE PROBLEMS IN THE HOPE-JONES ORGAN DEPARTMENT

If Wurlitzer's treatment of organists was cavalier, as will be seen later, their attitude toward factory workers was even more atrocious. It is true that, in the country as a whole nearly a century ago, employees weren't treated with the respect and consideration generally afforded in today's marketplace. In all fairness, Wurlitzer's dealings with employees in those days were probably no worse than the norm. But to an observer in the 1990s, it wouldn't rank very...