Word: schaffner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earl Dean Howard; Director of Labor for Hart, Schaffner & Marx; Chairman of the National Board of Labor Managers for the Clothing industry; Professor of Economics in the College of Liberal Arts, and Professor of Banking and Finance in the School of Commerce of North-western University, Chicago, recently prepared for the Crimson the following statement on the development of government in industry...
...firm of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, the largest concern in the clothing industry, has attracted wide attention by its progressive labor policy. Since 1910, when it adopted the preferential Union shop system, it has had no strikes, although the clothing industry elsewhere has been troubled by constant industrial warfare. This firm employs at times a force of 10,000 workers...
...protocol in the cloak and suit trade, together with half a dozen similar protocols in other branches of garment-making in New York, the Rockefeller system of industrial representation in the Colorado mines, and the labor agreement of Hart, Schaffner & Marx in Chicago, grew out of long and bitter strikes, severe enough on both sides to convince the parties thereto that the old system was intolerable. Complete predomination by either side was impossible and intermittent struggles over the division of power were costly and unsatisfactory. The protocols and the agreements provided a system of government to protect each side against...
...Robert Fechner, the prominent labor leader; Whiting Williams, former Vice-President of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company of Cleveland, who has spent many months as a common laborer in the steel mills and mines in this country and in England; and Farle D. Howard labor manager of the Hart Schaffner and Marx Company...
...will be one of a number of lecturers in the courses given by the school on the subject of "Labor Relations." Among the others are Professor Wallace B. Donham '98, Dean of the school; John W. Riegel, instructor on Labor Relations; Earle D. Howard, labor manager of the Hart, Schaffner & Marx Co.; and Whiting Williams, Vice President of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Co. of Cleveland. The aim of the school is to present the problem of labor relations from several different points of view, in order to equip graduates of the school to deal wisely with labor conditions in different...