Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue cardboard placards in Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt last week were signs announcing: "Profit sharing makes every worker a capitalist." The two-year-old Council of Profit Sharing Industries was holding its annual meeting, and it had plenty of figures to back up its slogan. Starting with 16 companies, the council has grown rapidly; it now represents 155 companies with gross sales of $3.5 billion a year. Last year the 240,000 employees in the companies received about $40 million in profits, or an addition of 5% to 117% to their regular wages...
...reason for the growth of such plans, the council reported, is that profit sharing brings 1) better labor relations, 2) better productivity from workers, 3) higher profits. Some of the council members told...
Even so, many a corporation is still not convinced. Some have tried profit sharing and dropped it because there was no appreciable improvement in worker morale or efficiency. Many unionists also oppose such plans, fearing that they will lead to the speedup. To that the council replies: not so. Profit sharing simply eliminates waste and carelessness. Said Clarence Wimpfheimer: "It is not a method of chiseling wages down. You establish a decent basic wage, and you put the profit sharing on top of that...
None of the Harvard groups that recently voted to take action on the informer clause issue have received replies to their letters to Washington. These groups include the Student Council, the American Veterans Committee chapter, and the Liberal Union, all of whom have been studying the matter...
Tonight the Council may try to legislate discrimination out of undergraduate organizations. It will talk about an addition to its proposed series of Rules for Undergraduate Organizations explicitly forbidding such discrimination. The intention of the proposed clause is fine, but its adoption can do more harm than good...