Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-01-26
MEN OF WEALTH
TO WORK OUT PLAN
Of Governmental and Social
Industrial REIMBURSEMENT
at New York Meeting.
EFFICIENCY SOCIETY
Want Industrial Relations COMMITTEES
to Investigate and Re-
port.

New York, January % A plan OF
governmental and social Industrial
readjustment as far reaching as the
socialistic propaganda of universal
brotherhood will receive acceleration
at tne hands of the Efficiency Gocety.
which will hold ts first annual meet
ing here Monday and Tuesday of next
week.
Headed by James G. Cannon, many
times millionaire, who is president
of the society and Of the Fourth Ma
tional Bank of New York, one of the
largest banking institut ons in the
world, the Efficiency Society is COM
posed of long list of millionaire cap
tains of industry who banded together
last March to cope with the growing
dissatisfaction with industrial condi-
lion which has held the country in its
grip.
The keynote of the society's INDUS
trial policy is the organization of an
entire industry into a single unit with
a joint board of admin stration on
which employers, employees and the
public shall be represented. Such an
organization, states the society," could
prevent strikes, prevent seasonal fluc-
tuations, secure uniform sanitary reg
ulations, solve the problems of en-
ploying and unemployment and effect
point purchas ng and joint distribu-
ton methods as we'll as uniform ac-
counting methods.
The society also expects to show
how the Government can add to ma
tional efficiency by the regulation OF
currency, of the tariff and the enact
ment of measures for reducing the
cost of living. 1t will also urge the
Government to establ sh National
Bureau Of Health, with the object OF
perfecting national hygiene and thus
increasing individually the efficiency
OF the workers.
To establish it's far reaching reforms
the soc ely will propose at its annual
meeting, that the Government estab-
,ish an industrial relations commit
tee to investigate and report recon-
mendations for this readjustment. Ac-
live preparations to incorporate the
proposed reforms on bills to be nitro
duced at Washington will be begun
in the near future.
Other reforms advocated by the So
ciety are: The enactment OF laws
making possible true Industrial
democracy" the distribution OF labor
by Governmental regulation; read
justment of wages by the Government;
and the enforcement of safety stand
ards on lands and sea.
In outlin 'ng the objects OF the Ell
ficiency Society today, President Can
non said:
"The mighty have overridden others
irrespective of their right to exist.
The people resent this dom nance OF
power and clamor for reimbursement
of relations. TIL Efficiency Society
has studied what this reimbursement
will mean and hopes to bring the bes'
minds to focus on this effort
1T will attempt to show that an IN
dustrial democracy S impossible uh
til the common agreements OF th'
i workers in industry are ade legal. L
will attempt to show that the Govern
ment can assist industry by the ac
tivties of Department OF lnduslr!
in the administration and by the &C
4. tvities of bureaus of the Government
TO deal with the distribution OF I'm
migrant and unskilled labor and
trade labor. 1t will urge the Govern
ment to create severvoir OF labo
which can to tapped to flow wher
needed. It will attmept to snow nov
the Government can assist IN I'll
proper compensation of labor by IN
ltiating studies in the comparauV
value of individual services and
proper study of the best methods o
reducing waste of effort and money
3 It will urge the regulation OF cur