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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three weeks ago the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, cooperating with employers' association of all New England States held in Boston a conference on employee representation. It was a most interesting meeting. Representatives of the General Electric Company, the International Harvester Company, the Thomas Plant shoe manufacturing company, the MacCallum Hoslery Company, the Walworth Manufacturing Company and the W. F. Whitney Company described their plans and reported in no uncertain terms on the success of employee representation. In brief, the testimony there presented was to the effect that better relations with the employees had been established, sharp labor controversy reduced...
...discriminate between unionists and non-unionists. It does not recognize the col- lective body of the union, but recognizes and deals with the collective body of its own employees, through their duly and honestly elected representatives. Employee representation tends to solidify the interests of all the workers in a plant with the interests of the management...
...well worthy of reflection that in this country the impetus to employee representation comes from employers, while in England the impetus comes from trade union workers who have felt that the trade union form of organization is not adequate to meet the needs of collective dealing within the individual plant, and that the more intensive form of local, shop representation is a requisite to industrial goodwill and efficiency...
...department of Military Science and Tactics announced yesterday that the Corporation had appropriated the sum of $15,000 for the purpose of erecting a permanent plant for the work of the Field Artillery Unit. The equipment of the R. O. T. C. is at present distributed in widely separated parts of Cambridge and Boston, a condition of affairs, which makes the work of conducting the courses extremely difficult...
...visited one of the largest dye and chemical works, where we were received with the same courtesy as in the other cases. We could not estimate the degree of activity in this plant since our visit took us only to the Laboratory. In the central and Southern German plants visited, the men gave the military salute--or occasionally no formal salute-to the manager rather than taking of their caps, but we did not see enough factories in the two sections to give any particular general value to an observation of this kind...