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...forth that the principle is new and the practice novel and without precedent. Such, however, is not the fact. The essence of employee representation is the recognized and organized participation of workmen, in greater or less degree, in the determination of questions affecting their wages, hours, and conditions of labor. Wherever union agreements have existed as for example, on the railroads, in the mines, in sections of the printing trade and in the boot and shoe industry, employee representation has, to a certain extent, also existed. It is to be noted in passing that in those few large industrial groups...
...Stoddard is secretary of the Industrial Information Service and has been in close touch for several years with the labor situation in this country. During the war he was a member of the War Labor Board. Mr. Stoddard has also had wide experience in journalistic work and was for a time an assistant in the University English Department...
...particular concern in which it is set up, whose function and purpose is to so correlate the mutual interests of employee and manager as to produce the most harmonious working relationships, the most effective production methods, and the best teamwork between the two often hostile factors in industry, labor and capital...
...MacCallum Hoslery Company, the Walworth Manufacturing Company and the W. F. Whitney Company described their plans and reported in no uncertain terms on the success of employee representation. In brief, the testimony there presented was to the effect that better relations with the employees had been established, sharp labor controversy reduced or eliminated altogether and, in some instances better production methods installed. It is significant that, although adverse opinions were invited none raised objection to the principle of employee representation. If this conference represents accurately the opinions of New England manufacturers, it would seem that employee representation has gained...
...share. Today more than ever does America need trained men and enlightened guidance. At the conclusion of twenty years of this fuller life that has followed your commencement, I wish you many more years of service of the same high order. Yours very sincerely, JAMES J. DAVIS, Secretary of Labor The Only One Bulletin