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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...
...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 and his friends are buying new houses and automobiles. Slowly but surely the new partnership is coming into existence, and with it industrial peace...
...College Endowment Fund Committee has worked out the returns form the non-dormitory members of the College upon a percentage basis and has found that out of the 497 non-dormitory members of the College, 43 percent have subscribed. The figures show that 54 percent of 88 non-dormitory members in the class of 1921 have subscribed; 28 percent of the 139 non-dormitory members in the class of 1922 have subscribed; 40 percent of the 132 non-dormitory members in the class of 1923 have subscribed; and 70 percent of the 138 non-dormitory members in the class...
Sixty-four percent of the men in Williams College have received warnings for low scholastic rank in one or more studies during the first term. This is an increase of five percent over last year; 21 percent of the men in college received three or more warnings and five of the men have entirely failed in four courses. Seventy-five men were rendered ineligible for fall athletics on account of their standing...
...special committee of ten men from the class of 1923 has been appointed to assist in the campaign to carry the Sophomores over the top in the Endowment Fund drive with a 100 percent subscribed. Each man will be assigned to see four men who have not as yet subscribed and to ask them to enroll. An important meeting of the committee will be held in Claverly 30 today...