e n t o . ot |- - Nv Soap PROMOTING THE HAPPY FAMILY PLAN IN AMERICAN INDUSTRY How One Gorparation Works In Harmony With lis Men. AN INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY All Grievances Presented by Men Through Representatives Reach Head of Company and Are Honestly Inves- tigated. J For more than a year a large and progressive industrial corporation with plants scattered over a large territory in several states of the southwest has been improving its relations with its employees through the medium of a so called industrial representation plan an industrial constitution drawn on a basis of democracy and mutual gonfi dence between the head of the com pany and the workmen who number from 10,000 to 12,000. To deal with the diverse interests of such a vast body of men is a serious task involving stern ‘responsibilities Nevertheless the company, through its representation plan, has not only car- ried on social and industrial betterment work on a comprehensive scale but has succeeded in settling all grievances without friction and without interfer ence from the outside. During year several increases in pay have been made upon the initiative of the company. : Altogether the plan has demonstrat eg itself to an important forward step in the establishment of amicable re- lations between all the factors in in dustry. A more widespread adoption of such schemes in plants and fac tories is heartily recommended by the broad-minded manufacturers of country who have started the National Industrial Conservation Movement for the purpose of getting employers and employees together. The supporters of the conservation movement realize the that the captain of industry and the | workingman must fight shoulder to protect American industry against condi that are prevail after the War. ions Workers Elect The Was the directors a referendum By secret ballot compa ont: seinta industrial Representation pi adopted in ifs 3 form of the company and Dj vote of the work: the workmen in ployment, Hving I tions, the adjustment of differences. and other matters, of mutual concern and interest. On other hand, the president +t touch wil p the workmen ti as presidents tives Empl pany fied with the dec 1 dents’ industrial" represer appeal to the hi lice f th pany in consecutive or president. Then, i he has not received carry his t on Industrial Cooperation and couci tion, comprised of both employee resentatives and the companys i sentations, and finally to the State In austrial Commission case to spe Confer on Wage Increases. Inder the indusirial constitution drawn np matters of wages, hours of service and other vita] factors in the company’s relations with its employees * are settled by a written contract. in- creases in wages are worked out in conference between company officials and the workmen's representatives In all matters of industrial better ment the employees’ representatives play an important part. They are as signed to joint committees which they serve with representatives of the company The names of thes? com mittees- Safety «nd Accidents, Sanita tion. Health and Housing. and Recrea tion and Education—give an adequate idea of the broad scope of the compa ol ny’s interest in its employees. To carry out the sehemes cidorsed Ly tae committees the company has spent money and effort unstintingly, although it has always avoided any semblance of paternalism. Since the inauguration of the plan the company has enlarged its previous programme of providing model homes for its employees who live on company property. The company is fencing, free of charge, each employee's home. A series of prizes is given every year for the cultivation of lawns and gardens. Many of the workers own their own automobiles. At the plants garages have been provided, with stalls rented to employees at a moderate rate.— Industrial Conservation, N. Y the | shoulder to | sure to | 'UNITY NEEDED TO HOLD | TRADE AFTER THE WAR | Labor Must Join In Effort to Meet New Competitive Spirit In Europe. “Employers and workers must unite to meet the conditions that the restora: tion of peace in Europe will bring,” says Eugene H. Outerbridge, president . of the New York Chamber of Com- merce. “I think there is no single ele: ment in industry before this country today of such vast importance as the matter of bringing these two constitu- ents into mutual confidence and under standing in a real spirit of co-opera- tion. 43 “In the world conditions now .pre-. |. vailing the peoples of the belligerent, compelling necessity, developed a de- gree of co-operation and efficiency in production of which they never be- fore knew themselves ‘capable and which has never been approached any- where else in the world. “The war has produced many un precedented conditions. This is only one of them. will be many we shall have to meet and many changes to which we shalli§- have io adapt ourselves. i | bs | Some cannot | be foretold or foreseen. but it appears... to me inevitable that the conscigus; ness of the efficiency and productive ° power that has been developed in the... European peoples will lead them nor to turn to previous methods, or lives ... of indolence and ease, but that the; will turn their newly developed pow ers to production in peaceful pursuits and that we then shall have to meet in foreign fields, and perhaps in do- mestic trade, the force of a competitive production organized on a degree of efficiency which we have never before had to combat.”—Industrial Conserva- tion, N. Y. Don’t Rock the Industrial Boat. After the European war is over the prosperity of the country will depend on the willingness of labor to co-oper- ate with capital in fighting destructive competition {re abroad. This is the sensus of opinion among men of affairs who have made a close study of conditions in the industrial and eco | nomic world. { During the that low the wa hes reconstruction period the termination of say. must | capi! i that tl readjustment 1. Soon jitter one way wages, and the he | , have, to | convince our own people of the advan. | tages of laven scale, economical pro- | duction, and we have to satisfy our % BN | | wage-eurners that they are In : not in resuacting production, but in increasil production, The; st bh brought to not only $ Ql I dependent ) production HE an, ine 3 C0 forts « 1 1 po ple is dependent upon it.” —Indusir Conservation, N. | I varremy vent ATE ATO WilnJuul AGIHLARTUN » INDUSTRY FLOURISHES 1 { Figures Show Big | e In Wages and F s Wi revel ta da spel 1 + 3 be & i \ : } vil J i N Y ork ty { i Va 1 | ures 3 yy the Bure | of Census for tl 114 The figures re decided gain | only in the » of new facto capital and the of mai | products, but also in the sum total of | salaries and: wages and the number of | salaried employes and wag | since the taking of the last census in } sted in mwanufactu ny vaiue itactured earuers ,1909. From a percentage standpoint. * she increase over the several items | i was as follows: © Salaried employes, 62.7 per cent; sal i aries, 50.8 per cent; wages. 55 per cent ! wage earners, 30.7 per cent; caj ital in * vested, 29 per cent; number of facto cent; value of products > ries. 26.6 per | 8.8 per cent. i While complete figures have not lea | published as vet for all thie cities an i States still from the figures tha 0 inow avaiable 1 i= evden that th | Borough of Queens for the sear 101 : exceeded in value of its mantic nations have, under the stress of a |* After it is over there + . posing \ \ \ EY \ NA N \ NN N \ \ \ WN NN 2 772 Arr TAT 7 gn a 7 RR 7g : 2 z 7 A \ \ \ \ ANT W \N\ WN \ \ N \ N W = > Xe * Interferes Wii LP my day there was born, appy and. resuec it in embryonic legislator i his d + the midst of 4 thu ) z < 4 may or ay un hoasn pie tic, but in after Hi leciidied foudness ft ap Hees on Ris part. t 1 N 1" named 1s J for 1 His m erg th Ving his father, a st ¢ { etait butcher, stood by ®) nut oi the day when hi Tn the ®heai DIURLIOS up Tho e elder Miller knew elivery™b ts heavy € igh hi Carrying. any exc ba of a name Bu the 1 had decided a he cut cut for bette: ) yeiation with steal ini the end she had ! way, tht priving the w d of other perfectly competent butcher At the age of eighteen Thomas Jet ferson Monroe Miller bezan to f that his aiother’'s confidence ! was more than justified I'he vist of hig ambition iuciuded a i" vation of the Presidential chaii During his college course. the pro spective statesitan was So busy set tling the affairs of the pati torical and deb hat had no tinw, to spend on the problems of tris At the eud of years he had developed a magniticen rush of words to the face and. aithouch he was somewhat puny in mathemai ics, the faculty decided that the best way to get rid of him was to hand him his sheepskin contests 8 1 mometry four By this tine our. future tegislator had grown a wonderful crop of back hair that curipd gracefuily over his had acquired the habit of hix photograph with a cor collar, I i ro yroducts many States o. the : : fun I i 2s i Voruwol.. Dekiwur rugated look about his brow and his J such as "iol elamw dre s . . 5 3 Union, 5 . right hand in the breast of his coat Oregon, Florida, aud Wioniing, it ess : s CS pe Sy + 3 3 By comparison with the most authori ceeded, also. in this respect every cit * 3 . i 3 York State. with the tative portraits. fie was every inch 2 1 JeW ork ote . L > eXCepliod . in Ne if 5 ig In fact. there we ‘eo ve statesman. so he returned to his na : & ¥ o “ re not . s jof Buia his services to i more than fifteen or sixteen cides n i the United States which produced man | ifactured products greater in valu than those made in Queens for the the year 1914.—Indusirial Conserva tion, N. Y. Beat Your Own Record. . Don’t gauge your own efforts by the | activity or output of your fellow work ers. Never mind how little the man pext to you does. That is his own funeral, and he will be chief mourner | some day Compete with yourself each !day. striving to beat your record of i the day before tive State ard'offered the “hors” of the Daity in Power The hard-hearted political czar would have necne of him. however. and Thomas Jefferson came to the conclu sion that the Partv in Power was cor rupt. Therefore. be joined the ranks of the Reform Party and lent the crushing weight of his oratory in an effort to convince the ‘‘plain peepui” that the Predatory Pilferers in office had stolen everything but the brass hinges on the Capitol door. After several] years of incessant ora- tory, the promising youth was sent to the legislature on the Reform Ticket. He won instant recognition by propes- Si Fol orator VORKED INDU EAR RS 8 me 2 £m got m= § ¥ i Bo BERR Bi i 9 Em 1 ae w gE ] 3 Bee. i Eo fer Je 1 tical Ambition,» revent emi their emp A J of a series ar 1 which he managed ed to arb the iniquito £f Pic Pha busy an invol ena the | saw. b road to run dustr; hectic eve. legi tor co to the worl islative b their record his active islative the biggest man- 1ouses in the State were bankruptey, but the jobless vees gathered ‘round the remains gave “Three Cheers” [for the overall of veral of empl and “Friend of the Workingman.” li a few years Thomus Monroe Miller had “Big gasping on the mat and pleading help. There was apparently left to curb. but by that ti contracted an insatiable tl ulating thing Jefferson Business” foi nothing ‘ 1e he iirst for 50 he turned his atten reg , tion to the liberties of the individuai He made it a cr his desk his stenographer a statute on haud a stock of Maxim silencers fo diners whose audiliie fondness for sou interfered with the orchestra Thanks ne for a man to pu while dictating to Next ne put through feel on ie forcing restaurants to hav re ) to him. the prourierors in hotels’ must now furnish their guests with bed | sheets of statutory lensth or run th i chance of being fined or imprisoned i not reduced the the He Meanwhile Busy Legislator has height of his youthful been ambitions has around with his bat in his hand, ready | or hackwork A SS MANN TSA Ui ...CONSERY QAQTRY aw LIN snr frp | - : Sow while reap wil to grains o Never be f{: is requir more pajy ‘the ;jmiil when § 1 » | onsthe same old job. ci Success In porations in the U in magufacturing 100.000, ness over Federal Trade in the nesses cannot definitely Business manazement: United sSuceess Comn States run along at depends efficient loyal on 200 worker from the head of the firm down to the messengers; interference. Where Do You Someone has divided four do less classes than ana those ireedom from out : Stand? mankind who is expected of them 1M consistent! those who do what is expected of ther but no more: without having to be who do thing told. and those finally those who have the magnetic power o inspiring otic rs to do things. All the failures in this world an | recruited from the first class The |second class comprises those wh standing | scrape along in some form of drudger Men of «the third class: to slip into the first vacant seat in the [are always in great demand in the fac United States senate, and his constitu- | tory and in the office, but the fourth ents are convinced that he will not | class represents the highest rung in the ladder of success. In the world of industry the fourth class is attained by the diligent few have to stand much longer. A commit- tee of his townsmen recently visited a sculptor with a view to having their hero's facial facade perpetuated in the purest marble. The statue will be placed in the town square after Miller | men under them. hag gasped his last speech. “Hall of Fame.”—C. A. Rieser, Indus- trial Conservation. N. Y. who have caught the spirit of their task and are able to impart it to the They are the men | who, without being slave drivers, are Moral: They all look good in the lable to increase the output of an in dustrial tion, N. Y. plant. — Industrial Conserva- . dentrand “old |: hisdhddbtrial family od woul: probably tev MANUFACTURERS INSURE Mich oY THE THOUSANDS — Some Policies Provide For Pay- ~ment of id Age- Pensions. ——— GROUP PLAN FAVORED". Part of General. Campaign For Indus<- trial Betterment — Some Concerns Adopt Plan to Give Their Employees . a Share In, Prsperity. A stfiking evidence of the willingness - on the-part of manufacturers as a class. to dn somethiiig material for the bene- fit of their employeestis to be found in the growing popularity of the group in- Strate plan: industrial concerns all over ile country. sare tl Y ns in 1 wi Lie q AVE t i 1 ompany ‘5 - : 3) 1 : VOL a Ie \ WO, < Coinba i { 200 vill vd we { 1 | employees! totaling Sh ance. : vy James S. At. ah 'agitator never y Sl. | ¥5 shirt » anvel aithoneh he | : acconr( keep ny a on nN! risks reabout 0 00 | Benton - Barber. Mas i { I i} x forees to run a b LEH 1 ' us > X yi ~¢ pitat Hoexs 8 i 0 eer { ¥ | 0 ap . 1 Y o t 1 it » vy ( \ Bro vn, DN Y Lu | year's salary; iO or $104,000 | I o oasted \ 5 Com i : ¢ il i ! fo i 1 i | Son « ‘e Vritten. industrial insured the Many Other Policies Ampng many other the Equitable con- fol. William M. Crane. & Co., New York S500 to $3,000, 1.000 e covering ployed Company, Paterson. ‘ance to all employees g from $500 to 1.000 Garner Print Worl Life insu £ over $1,000, 000, covering.thousands of employees at the piants at Garnerville and Wap pinger Falls. N.Y Qelimor. A Sodmer « ap