Industrial Chaplains
In Lone Star, Texas this week, the Lone Star Steel Co. will open a new $40,000 building where the company will make no steel, transact no business. The building is a chapel. There, a fulltime, specially trained Methodist chaplain will spend his time primarily offering aid and counsel to troubled workers. Similar pastor-counselor or devotional programs are fast spreading to dozens of other U.S. corporations. Next week in Cleveland, a prime topic at the National Council of Churches meeting will be the new industrial chaplain. The Northern California Council has already...