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Atlantic City, N. J.—John D. Rock
efeller, Jr., declares there are four
parties to industry. He says they are
Capital, Management, Labor and the
Community.
To those who have followed the ex
pressions and actions of the Rocke
fellers this will prove most interest
ing. The younger Rockefeller has
taken on three partners. Labor will
be interested that it is offered a seat
at the table.
There are many who believe that
Mr. Rockefeller will be called upon
before long to instruct his agents con
cerning the new deal. He may have
to construe his declarations. His new
partners may insist upon his living
carefully up to the letter of his pro
nunciamento.
Mr. Rockefeller's statements were
made at the War E.nergency and Re
construction conference here.
Asserting that capital and labor are
partners with common interests, and
not energies, Mr. Rockefeller stated
ten tenets of his industrial creed.
These included advancement by in
dustry of social as well as material
well-being of employes opportunity
by employes to earn a living under
conditions of fair wages, reasonable
hours, and proper industrial environ
ment rtward for initiative and ef
ficiency machinery for uncovering
adequate representation of all the in
dustrial parties, with annual joint
conferences, to assure industrial har
mony and prosperity in each plant,
and promptly adjusting grievances
with this system extended "to include
all plants in the same industry, all
industries in a community, in a nation,
and in the various nations."
Mr. Rockefeller added:
"As the leaders of industry face
this period of reconstruction, what
will their attitude be? Will it be
that of the stand-patters, who take no
account of the extraordinary changes
which have came over the face of the
civilized world and have taken place
in the minds of men, who say what
has been and it must continue to be—
with our backs to the wall we will
fight it out along the old lines of go
down with the ship who attempt stub
bornly to resist the inevitable and,
arming themselves to the teeth, invite
open warfare with the other parties
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Labor May Demand Seat At
Prosperity Banquet Board.
Taken At His Word Means Workers May Freely Organize
To Improve Conditions In Oil-field, Mines, Factor
ies, Stores And All Other Industries.
May Be Called Upon To Construe His Pronunciamento For
Benefit Of Benighted Agents In The Field.
in industry, the certain outcome of
which will be financial loss, inconven
ience, and suffering to all, the devel
opment of bitterness and hatred, and
in the end the bringing about through
legislation, if not by force, of con
ditions far more drastic and radical
than could now be amicably arrived
at through mutual concession in
friendly conferences
"Or will it be an attitude, which
I myself profoundly believe, which
takes cognizance of the inherent right
and justice of the principles under
lying the new order, which recognizes
that mighty changes are inevitable,
many of them desirable, which, not
waiting until forced to adopt new
methods, takes the lead in calling to
gether the parties in interest for a
roundtable conference, to be held in a
spirit of justice, fair play, and bro
therhood, with a view to working out
some plan of co-operation which will
insure tj all those concerned ade
quate representation, an opportunity
to *arn a fair wage under proper
working and living conditions, with
such restrictions as to hours as shall
leave time not alone for food and
sleep, but also for recreation and the
development of the higher things of
life"
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Plumbers Elect
Officers.
Plumbers' Local, No. 108 elected
new officers at their meeting held
Monday r. ght, Dec. 16th.
Sidney McGill was elected President.
Thomas Blevins, Vice-President.
Ray Martz, Recording Secretary.
Wm. Schlottermiller, Fin. Secretary.
Jack Dedrick, Treasurer.
Morey Hamill, Door Keeper.
Henry Betscher, Ray Martz and
Morey Hamill, Finance Committee.
Henry Betscher, Wm. Ballett, Wm.
Schlottermiller, C. F. Schwab and
Ray Martz Executive Board.
The Plumbers transacted other im
portant business which will be an
nounced later.
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FASHIONED FROM FABRICS THAT ARE HIGH GRADE IN EVERY PARTICULAR.
RICH, NEW CREATIONS IN FINE ALL-WOOL OVERCOATINGS FROM AMERICA'S
BEST LOOMS. MADE IN THE FASHIONABLE NEW MILITARY STYLES, BOX
COATS, ULSTERS AND CHESTERFIELDS
Union Made Union Made
COM£ SE.E THEM
N :w York—Organized labor's de
claration, reiterated recently by
Samuel Gompers and others, that it
will not brook reduced wages or long
er hours, is apparently being accepted,
by business, commerce and industry,
as unshakable, if certain straws in
the week's news are reliable.
Enlightened leaders in these lines
seem to be convinced that any attempt
to antagonize organized labor at this
time, by flying in the face of the
Gompers declaration, would be unfor
tunate for all concerned. Echoes of
this opinion where heard in some of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce conferences in Atlantic City and
more were evident at the meeting of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
State of New York.
The chamber's committee on indus
trial relation presented a report and
a resolution proving that its members
are aware of the dangers that might
SOLDIERS
Invited o Scab By Street
Railway Company.
Omaha, Neb.—The Omaha and
Council Bluff Street Railway com
pany insists on democracy abroad but
wants the soldiers who made this pos
sible to scab on workers who are fight
ing for industrial freedom at home.
The company motormen and con
ductors are on strike and the follow
ing advertisement was inserted in
local newspapers by this corporation:
"Wanted able-bodied men who can
operate street cars for positions as
conductors and motormen. Returning
soldiers will be given preference.
Wages 41 to 45 cents per hour and
bonus of $5 per day during the pie
Apply at superintendent of transpor
sent emergency. Steady positions,
tation. Om«ha and Council Bluffs
Street Railway company."
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STUPID
George—1 cna't see why you wear
your dresses so short!
Patty (demurely)—You can't?
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Inclination of Managers To Take
Advantage of Conditions Of Tem=
porarily Large i abor Turnovers
To Reopen War On Unionism
Cited.
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For Labor Controversies To
Arise, Says Committee
On Industrial Relation.
arise from the labor situation if it
were handled roughly and in a self
centered fashion by any of the parties
to it. The resolution urged that cap
italists, business managers and wage
earners unite to settle amicably in a
spirit of cooperation, industrial prob
lems arising out of the war.
Some of the significant passages
from the report were: "Wage-earners
as a class must be given an opportu
nity to count as men and women in
the vital management of their indus
tries in whatever position tb y may
be puaiified to count. This is the
more necessary at this moment, since
so many wage-earners will be return
ing from our active campaigns against
the enemy, where men have counted
fare.
"Your committee has given serious
consideration to this grave situation
to the inclination of managers to take
advantage of conditions of temporar
ily large labor turnovers to reopen war
Papermakers Gain.
Strike Won As Result Of
Organization.
Marinette, Wis,—Paper mill work
ers have won their three-weeks' strike
for improved working conditions. The
company had refused to answer re
quests for betterments until its plant
was tied up. Wages are advanced 7
per cent and the girls will be paid 30
cents an hour. Complaints will here
after be considered by the manage
ment and a committee of the workers.
The Union Laborer makes this com
ment on the strike:
"The strike should be an example to
all the workers of wliat can be ac
complished by organization of work
men. Never before in this section
have workers been known to secure
wage increases at this period of the
year, nor is there any record of a
wage increase at a time equal to that
just negotiated. It is well known
that in the past, at this time of the
year, wages were usually reduced.
This not only applies to the paper
mills, but as well as to other industries
and is clearly because of the previous
unorganized state of the workers."
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on unionism to the inclination of la
bor unions to defend the gains which
have been given them by a situation
forced by war needs and whose future
stability is a matter of some question
to the force, mainly external to the
industrial situation, which tend to dis
order and profit from violence and
crime, the efforts of syndicalists, I.
W. W. and other revolutionary or an
archists bodies to make capital out of
labor disputes, although they them
selves rarely have any direct connec
tion with productive labor.
"It would be a sorry object lesson
for young democracies and a potent
aid to autocratic reactionism abroad
if the spectacle were presented to the
world of the oldest and greatest de
mocracy in existence itself racked
and convulsed over the disputes of
those whose permanent interests are
thoroughly tied up with those delib
erated and orderly methods of settle
ment for which democracy stands.
And it would be an added incentive to
the progress of a red-handed and in
cendiary class struggle abroad if we
were to allow the settlement of trade
disputes to be annexed to those dis
orderly and revolutionary minorities,
more significant by reason of their
nois ness than by their size."
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Schwab Likes Unions
That Is, If They're "Run
Right."
Atlantic City, N. J.,—At the recon
struction conference of the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States of
America Charles M. Schwab of the
Bethlehem Steel company said he be
lieved in labor organizations—provid
ed, of c.urse, th y a.-e run right.
About the seme time Mr. Schwab
was orating President Grace of the
Bethdehem Steel company was asking
the national war labor board to with
draw its representatives from that
plant and abandon a shop system of
collective bargaining which the com
pany, the employes and the war labor
board agreed to.
Mr. Schwab favors the two-by-four
shop union rather than unions linked
up in huge national or international
organizations.
"I believe," he said, "that labor
should organize in individual plants
or amongst themselves for the pro
tection of their own rights, but the
organization and control of labor in
individual plants and manufactories,
to our mind, ought to be representa
tive of the people in those plants who
know the conditions."
This should be sufficient notice to
those ogres, known as business agents
and walking delegates—who are al
ways trying to foment discontent and
start riots—that, as far as Mr. Schwab
is '-oncemed, (hey "needn't cume
You.id."
The speaker declared that "any
foundation of organized labor" that
is on a false basis must fail. Capi-
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tal is included in this warning. The
statement shows that Mr. Schwab is
not partisan, but is broad minded,
for the public is not supposed to make
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capitalists. In fact, the public is ex
pected to put a steam dredge, a flour
in the same class with human beings
mill, a coke oven or a railroad system
who depend upon the sale of their
labor power for their daily bread.
Mr. Schwab also made this state
ment, which has so often been uttered
by agitators and other undesirables:
"I seriously doubt that many times
in the years gone by labor has re
ceived its fair ?hare of the prosperity
of this great country."
Mr. John D. Roeefeller, Jr., spoke
along the same lines. His contribu
tion of generalities was well received,
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Washington— The influx of women
in wage-earning capacities because of
the war indicated by the annual re
port of the civil service commission,
which states that in the last fisical
year civil service examinations were
taken hv 137,020 women as compared
with 25,475 in previous year. This
the report points out, is an inci'ease
of 441 per cent in the number of men
increased only 122 per cent.
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