Word: labors
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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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...
...firm of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, the largest concern in the clothing industry, has attracted wide attention by its progressive labor policy. Since 1910, when it adopted the preferential Union shop system, it has had no strikes, although the clothing industry elsewhere has been troubled by constant industrial warfare. This firm employs at times a force of 10,000 workers...
...protocol in the cloak and suit trade, together with half a dozen similar protocols in other branches of garment-making in New York, the Rockefeller system of industrial representation in the Colorado mines, and the labor agreement of Hart, Schaffner & Marx in Chicago, grew out of long and bitter strikes, severe enough on both sides to convince the parties thereto that the old system was intolerable. Complete predomination by either side was impossible and intermittent struggles over the division of power were costly and unsatisfactory. The protocols and the agreements provided a system of government to protect each side against...
...first step is an agreement on a constitution providing usually for a board of arbitration. Executive control is left in the hands of the employer but subject to the limitations of the agreement and the decrees of the board. The representatives of the employees usually labor union officials, strive through the board to extent these limitations to in hibit all acts of the employer which the employees or their officials conceive to be of any disadvantage to themselves. The system resembles a constitutional monarchy...