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...employee representation received its great impetus in this country between 1917 and 1920. The erroneous impression has gone forth that the principle is new and the practice novel and without precedent. Such, however, is not the fact. The essence of employee representation is the recognized and organized participation of workmen, in greater or less degree, in the determination of questions affecting their wages, hours, and conditions of labor. Wherever union agreements have existed as for example, on the railroads, in the mines, in sections of the printing trade and in the boot and shoe industry, employee representation...
...consideration of all the conditions. Moreover, the time study man was looked upon by the shop as an undesirable citizen. His position was very hard to fill and very little thought of by those who might be competent. He was the object of much abuse and there were few workmen who would concede that he possessed the least spark of justice or honesty. Consequently, the tendency was to try to fool him as often as possible by 'stalling.' At times even the foreman, ignoring the fact that much of the spoiled work could be accounted for by lack of proper...
...indeed strange that, with the great call for improvement in building methods, particularly in connection with the labor question some enterprising group of workmen in this country have not organized on this co-operative basis. The scheme seems to be a very feasible solution of the difficulties that are encountered at present in erecting satisfactory houses inexpensively. As worked out in England, the plan is one in which the laborer has everything to gain and nothing to lose; here it should prove to be a no less beneficial arrangement...
...ready money assembled a small library of his own during his college course. The modern student, however, is no longer able to indulge his natural inclination toward book-collecting; even for the most essential textbooks he often relies upon friend or college library. Under the ever-increasing demand of workmen for more wages, prices have steadily risen until a volume of even the most modest description is not infrequently quoted at three dollars. The labor union is slowly teaching the college student to appreciate the value of books. But the lesson is expensive...
...were there, and another large news machine was being installed. The mill was the last word in design, was a model of order and cleanliness, and was in the best Paper of condition. All the wood for the pulp and ground-wood mill came from German points. The Workmen took of their caps to the Director or Manager exactly as they used to do before the war. We were received with the utmost courtesy...