Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...owners cannot operate the workers will," says W. J. Kelly, National Secretary-Treasurer of the Amalgamated Iron Workers of America. This organization has decided to make a demand upon owners of plants, now idle, to turn them over to the workers so they may demonstrate the value of such action. This demand is the result of wide unemployment and wage reductions among the metal workers, which according to Mr. Kelly is without reason...
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 profits distributed among them. The suggestion was accepted by the company and the experiment has begun...
...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 the other. Yet even the failure of the iron workers in their experiment will bring partial success: for both sides in dispute will have learned to know each other. Capital will have learned that workmen are human beings interested in management and profits; labor, that a twenty percent reduction in wages does not mean that the president...
...almost every case when I became acquainted with the foreigners who make up the greater part of the labor gangs in the iron and steel mills, I found that they resembled everyone else in the important points if not in the minor. They were always anxious to take good care of their families and to give their children an education. They were anxious to stand well among their neighbors but we must remember that their neighbors' viewpoint was different, perhaps, from that of ours...
...Catchings has been president of the Central Foundry Company of New York, the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company, and the Platt Iron Works of Dayton, Ohio. During the war be held the very responsible position of chairman of the war committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce. He is now engaged on the constructural side of banking as a member of the firm of Goldman, Sachs and Company of New York City...