Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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From North Carolina comes the news that this experiment is actually taking place in a large Iron Works and Supply Company. During a meeting called to discuss a disagreement over a twenty percent wage reduction, one of the employes suggested that the plant be managed by the workers and the...
Even the most optimistic of labor's friends will hardly agree with Mr. Kelly that "if the owners cannot operate the plants the workers will." They may succeed in North Carolina--and they may not. Most persons agree that labor and capital must continue to be partners, each dependent on...
Employers and those responsible for the prosperity of large enterprises are reluctant to lose any part of their control. When they discover that the power has passed from them, or when their government has failed to maintain peace they are then ready for experiment. The protocols and other experiments have...
And that, after all, is the chief significance of the scheme. If it be argued that this experiment has been tried under ideal conditions, it may be answered that prophetic experiments must always be tried under good conditions before they can be approved or condemned.
If successful they can then be tried elsewhere, and the nine years' success of this experiment now becomes a challenge to forward looking workers and employers who want to take the first step in the journey to industrial peace.