Word: workmen
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...which none but union workers are employed and in which there is a definite agreement between the employer and the worker as an organized unit. In union shops non-union workers sometimes are employed, but only when union men cannot be had. Most agreements provide that when no union workmen are to be had non-union workers may be employed, with the proviso that they make application for union membership within a reasonable period of time. 'The true open shop,' remarks Mr. Gompers, in the same editorial, and there are very few of them--is a shop in which union...
Enough has transpired, however, to indicate that the Germans consider the French estimate impossible. Dr. Simons, the German spokesman, declares that his people--government and workmen alike--will not submit to measures which would result in the "economic strangulation" of their country. The French, on the other hand, believe that whereas Germany is fighting for further industrial development, they themselves are insisting only upon bare survival in demanding the restoration of their devastated land. Lloyd George epitomizes the situation by stating that the German people do not realize that they lost the war. Threats of coercion from one side...
...Most persons agree that labor and capital must continue to be partners, each dependent on the other. Yet even the failure of the iron workers in their experiment will bring partial success: for both sides in dispute will have learned to know each other. Capital will have learned that workmen are human beings interested in management and profits; labor, that a twenty percent reduction in wages does not mean that the president and his friends are buying new houses and automobiles. Slowly but surely the new partnership is coming into existence, and with it industrial peace...
...best thing I know about the human being is that under normal conditions he wants to demonstrate his standing as a man among men by proving himself a worker among other workers. In America at least the workmen do not want a larger share in the management so much as they want the satisfactions which should go with the job but are too often taken away from them by the hard-fisted and driving foremen...
...tremendous increase in demands for more money show that we still have before us the task of explaining to workmen that value given in wages must equal value received. If we doubt the importance of our efforts in this line we should note that the 139 strikes for higher wages caused the loss of almost four million working days--no small loss for a single state...