Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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The 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...
Any system of government for the adjustment of human relations and conflicting interests by law rather than by force requires some devices to perform legislative, executive and judicial functions. Rules must be laid down and interpreted, administrative duties must be discharged, effective limitations and requirements must be placed upon individuals...
There is a strong tendency to enlarge the scope of political government so as to include also industrial government. Whether this shall grow into state socialism or whether private enterprises will be able individually or collectively to establish a satisfactory form of government, supplementary to political government, is one of...
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...
The 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...