Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...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 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...
...best thing I know about the human being is that under normal conditions he wants to demonstrate his standing as a man among men by proving himself a worker among other workers. In America at least the workmen do not want a larger share in the management so much as they want the satisfactions which should go with the job but are too often taken away from them by the hard-fisted and driving foremen...
...tremendous increase in demands for more money show that we still have before us the task of explaining to workmen that value given in wages must equal value received. If we doubt the importance of our efforts in this line we should note that the 139 strikes for higher wages caused the loss of almost four million working days--no small loss for a single state...
...Italian industrial uprising, which fizzed up with the suddenness of a skyrocket, has subsided as rapidly. When the workmen first seized the factories they declared that they would never give them up until they got full control; and though allowance had to be made for the familiar difficulty of moderate leaders who had to talk radically to hold their following, it began to look as if only complete surrender by the owners would avert trouble. There was surrender, but far from complete. The owners admit the principle of employe participation in management; the details are to be settled...
...extremists who insisted on complete and immediate socialization, and who caused some disorders, especially in Turin, have received a heavy blow in the referendum by which the workmen voted nearly three to one to accept the compromise. The radical faction may be expected to continue to make trouble, but it will hereafter be recognized as a mere discontented minority which has no honest basis for its case. Three-quarters of the workmen involved want to make haste slowly. Mr. Turati, veteran leader of the moderate Socialist group in the Parliament, in an interview reported in yesterday's Evening Post, said...