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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member of the University delegation to the Unit with any previous experience in reconstruction work is R. J. Giddings 2S.L.A., the chairman of the University section. Giddings accompanied last summer's Unit and worked at Clermont-en-Argonne. Here he assisted in the making of a survey and large scale plan of the town showing the condition of each building and ruin...
Employee representation is the natural and normal development of large scale industry. When industrial units were of relatively much smaller size, contact between man and master was direct, friendly and close. The employer-employee relationship was simple. As industry expanded with thousands of factories employing from half a thousand to ten or twenty thousand men and women, this contact was destroyed. The distance between employer and manager increased. Employer and manager became separated. They could not do business together efficiently because they had no adequate machinery to express the real relationship which necessarily underlies industrial work...
...bargaining, where the solution is more a matter of erratic opinion than fact, or merely the result of blustering intimidation. Therefore, immediately our plan of representation was adopted, we set out, through the General Committee, to determine a sound and fair basis of wage. This committee drew up a scale of rates for hourly workers, and a list of basic rates for piece-workers, consistent with the relative amount of skill and intelligence for the average man involved for the work in each group. The resulting arrangement was acceptable to all because, through the representation of both company and employees...
Piece Rate vs. Time Scale...
...which "The Governor's Wife" was given by the Club in the spring of 1920. Other guests well-known in the theatrical world were present and the dinner was well attended by members both of the Club and of the Idler Club of Radcliffe, which makes possible the present scale of the production...