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...first sight this seems to be only an other of labors propositions to be scorned by employers as entirely impracticable. It has, however, one saving grace perhaps two: the workers do not propose to seize private property by force; and they propose to take over plants now idle, not those making profits. In other words there is the recognition that capital and labor are partner. Labor simply asks to be allowed to demonstrate that, if its partner falls, the partnership can be dissolved without loss to itself. If it succeeds in proving the truth of the assertion, the employer will...
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 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...
Earl Dean Howard; Director of Labor for Hart, Schaffner & Marx; Chairman of the National Board of Labor Managers for the Clothing industry; Professor of Economics in the College of Liberal Arts, and Professor of Banking and Finance in the School of Commerce of North-western University, Chicago, recently prepared for the Crimson the following statement on the development of government in industry...
...final event of the convention will be a reception to delegates and guests on Thursday evening. Ten-minute talks will be given on the actual service that has been rendered by college men in radical and labor movements, and the possibilities for the future, by an interesting list of speakers. Tickets for the dinner, at $2 each, and any further information may be secured at the headquarters of the Society, room 931, 70 Fifth avenue, New York City...
Methods of stimulating interest in the labor and radical movement in the colleges will be considered in a discussion, led by Evans Clark, at the session on Thursday morning, December 30th. That afternoon a question box session on "Industrial Revolution in Theory and Practice," with Lewis Gannett as chairman, will occupy the members of the convention. The theory and practice of the main groups working for workers' control of industry will be set forth briefly by representatives of these groups, such as Jessie Wallace Hughan, Robert Minor, J. T. "(Red") Dofan, and Joseph Schlossberg...