The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-02
TEACHES SYSTEM
OF COOPERATION
Mr.. Rhodes, of National Register
Company Shows Practical Re-
suits of Such Plan.
TALKS ON GARDENING
TALKS
Mr.. Cooke Introduces Speaker.
Many Excellent Views Thrown
On Canvass.

A highly interesting and instructive
stereopticon lecture was delivered last
night by Mr.. ]. 3. Rhodes, of the Ma
tional Cash Register Company, OF Dayton,
o., in the auditorium of the Y. NJ. c. a.
The lecture was Instructive not only
from the individual standpoint but also,
and more, from the civic standpoint. By
reason OF the lessons 1t was intended TO
teach in the corporation of labor and
capital, the instilling into the minds Of
the audience the need OF sort of COM
munsion existing between the employer
and the employe and the greater neces-
sity of a mutual and helpful sympathy
in all society. In bringing his lesson to
Richmond the lecturer not only gave
clear showing OF Its need everywhere
felt, but at the same time gave prac-
teal demonstration OF It's success. as
proven in the case of the National Cash
Register Company
This company, as the speaker showed
from the small beginning of a private,
company, had. through the adoption of
cooperative interest between the en-
ployer and the employees and q spirit of
I
largest and most successful companies in
the world, and had developed among It's
army of employees training. efficiency
and capacity for initiative thought never
before attempted or even thought pos
sble. 1t nursed and developed the "sug-
sestion system" by which all employees
are taught to have an interest In the
company for which they labor and to give
1t their individual care and attention in
creased improvements. one which has
since been adopted in many OF the leading
and largest factories in the country,
Utopian Community.
This system of cooperative interest and
mutual sympathy has resulted in a sort
OF Utopian community in which the
thoughts, hopes and plans and wants OF
every Individual have been recognized and
made part of the whole, or the com
pany. Committees for the furtherlng II
the social side Of the factory life and
its uplifting and higher development have
been formed; clubs among the men, wo-
men, boys and girls have been establish
Cd, and q mutual, helpful relation
brought about In every department, be-
s tween the lowest employe and the highest
member of the firm.
There were between four ana five hun
drcd people present last night, and the
36IctLtesI luteTeSp {. was manifested
throughout the course of the lecture The
speaker was introduced by Mr.. CHARLES
b. Cook ina few appropriate words
With the stereopticon views Mr..
Rhodes illustrated all his remarks, and
showed the wonderful and valuable re-
suits which the company had acquired by
the adoption OF this system OF mutual
help. The company now has nine build
ing, about 40 acres of land and employs
an army of 1850 men and women Every
thing In the whole factory has been re-
duced to cooperative basis. The mon
have their clubs and rooms, as do the
women. They come and go to their WORK
at different times. thus doing awayswith
confusion and 8dilly-daIlying. There nre
dlning-rooms for the employees and for
the officers, Besides these. the company
las furnished reading rooms, separate FOR
tho sexes; dispensary and hospitals, and.
in short, everything that would tend to
the comfort and welfare OF tho employees.
AS the audience dispersed after the
lecture, some were heard to say that they
were going to9@adopt tho new system
and carry It into their places or bust
mes.