The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-02
CAPITAL And LABOR
DIR. roLMAS 'rE TELLS HOW ArrAR-
EMILY CONFLICTING INTERESTS
CAN BE HARMoNIzED
SOME GENEROUS EMPLOYERS
Instances Cited where Profit shar-
ing Has Been Tried With Great
Success on Roth Sides
of the Ocean.


Identity of interest between capital and
labor was the keynote of lecture IL
1iFered last evening at Raudenbush hall,
by DR.. William H. Tolman. of the
League for Social Service, New York
The lecture was Illustrated by stereopti-
con views showing the attractive, CHAR"
acte11stic or illustrative features of the
communistic social life in the industrial
settlements to which Dr. Tolman made
reference in his remarks. The lecture In
fact was based very largely upon study
OF the conditions obtaining among the
mammoth manufacturing establishments
of America and Europe Referring to the
purposes of the society which he repre-
sents, DR.. Tolman said
"One of the great needs of the times
EaS come to be a point of contact and
co mmunication between the many or
carnations which, inspired by the grow
ing altruistic spirit are trying to mako
their communities better places to live in.
It We profit only by our own experience,
we learn slowly and pay high tuition
fee. 1t is much wiser to profit by the
successes and failures of others and SO
get our tuition free
We need, therefore, a social clearing
house; and to supply this need is one Of
the chief aims of the League for Social
Service of New York. The experiments
OF recent years have thrown not little
light on methods , of social betterment,
but this light is, for the most part, dit
fused. The League for Social Service OF
New York is a lens to gather up those
scattered rays, focalize them and reflect
them wherever they are desired; and this
it does largely through it's monthly
magazine, Social Service
Dr. Tolman spoke in an interesting
Of ho Of i;aT M
Lever, of Lever Bros, Port Sunlight,
England, in manner somewhat as fol-
lows: ~ -:
In 1885 William I'll. Lever was a grocer
in Bolton, England. Becoming convinced
that there was a large market for pure
and cheap SOAP he opened factory IN
Birkenhead near Liverpool After three
years, he awoke one morning to find that
his profits for that year were 950,OG0 AS
he had tersely state it: 81 felt had not
earned the money. I did not expect like
result. and that had no right to it. 1
sat down and considered to whom the
money belonged, and found it difficult
matter, to decide..,I reached this con-
ciusion-tilat, whatever I did, I must
share my prosperity with thoseswho had
helped me make It." His solution of the
problem was the provision of decent
homes for his employees. The problem Of
prosperity sharing was worked out at
Port Sunlight, "a village today consisting
of 600 houses, reading rooms, bowling
alleys, swimming pools, schools, enter
tainment halls, summer open air theaters,
and recreation grounds. The village now
represents an expenditure of e4oe,o00."
Employers Who Are Generous.
After some further reference to
European firms which had adopted SIM
liar plans with marked success Dr. Toll.
man spoke of number of model indus
trial settlements in this country.
Among. these was the Westinghouse Air
Brake company's settlement at Wilmer
ding. Pa, on a tract of land adjoining its
large factory. Land was furnished to the
employees at cost and9the company under
took to build houses for them under an
arrangement whereby they could divide
the payment over a period of ten years.
Seventy-fiNe houses were built in ac
cordance with the plan in 1890, and thirty
six of these are now owned by the
original purchasers. The business de-.
preston of 1929 made it very hard for
the payments to be continued, so a nlodl-
fled plan was adopted, by means OF
which a mortgage was taken on the prop
erty at per cent year,with opportunity
OF reducing the principal in quarterly
payments.
DIR. Tolman described the industrial bet
terment work that Is being done at
Briarciff Farms, Westchester county,
New York He told of the communal
home for men that has been erected on
the farms by Mr.. W. W. Law, the owner
of the Farms. 1t is called 'Dalmeny
Home" and was, built by Mr.. Law for
the 100 unmarried men who work on the
farms. - -
The home contains 70 individual bed
rooms The building is 100 feet long, and
four stories in height; the men enter
large hall 80 by 80 feet which, when not
used for meetings and entertainments,
serves as smoking room.
Among other firms which have greatly
improved the condition of their employees,
as was shown by pr Tolman, are the
sherwin- Williams, company. of Cleveland,
and the H J. Heinz company. OF Pitts
burg.