The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-08
CLOSER KINSHIP IS
THE new IDEAL IN
AMERICAN INDUSTRY
Harmony BstERen Men and Man.
agement Recognized as a
Desirable Factory Asset.
is NOW AN INVENTORY ITEM
Modern Manufacturer cuItIyates Good.
VIII Of Workers-HIs Interest No
Longer Confined to Conversion Of
Raw Material Into Finished Product

No established business can operate
efficiently without inventory. The in
ventory tells the story Of whether the
business is successful or otherwise.
You put almost everything you have in
an inventory, and the value that you
think the article bears in relation to
your business.
But there are many things which go
into the composite body Of inventory
beside personal property. There Is
the question of good will. There Is
the item of the contentment Of en-
ployees. There Is the question OF the
relation Of employer to employee.
There is the item of the health hy-
giene of artisans. And there is the
final item, which is always eloquent,
of whether or not the men who work
are better citizens in the community
In which they live.
The time has come and gone when
manufacturers are exclusively inter-
ested in converting raw into finished
product. The time has come when all
employers must be interest. j in the
quality of manhooda of the men who
work.
Industrial conservation means the
preservation and protection Of the
lives, liberties and rights Of men in
industry as much as it does the pro-
lection Of the economic agencies OF
manufacture. 1t spells industrial In
tegrity. The age of ruthless conpe-
tition is relegated to the past. The
interests of employees and employers
are not necessarily identical, but they
are mutual. If the humblest employee
in any industry is not interested in
the success of the concern for which
he works he should be eliminated. II
the executive of any large industrial
concern is not interested in the hum"
blest toiler the executive should be
eliminated.
The Meaning Of Cooperation.
The new idea in industry is a closer
kinship and deeper appreciation OF the
necessity for mutually and co-opera'
ton. Cooperation means not merely
the physical coordination Of industry;
1t means the spirit with which the Ia
Dor is performed. Cooperation 'ts not
question of wage or hours Of labor;
it is an agency for the the betterment
of employees, stockholders and offl'
GERS. II an Industrial concern cannot
manufacture good Wills 1t ought to 80
out of business.
Industrial conservation m means mobt
lizing industrial forces, both Internal
ly and externally. 1t means protec'
ton, not in the tariff sense Of that
word, but in the sense Of establishing
an Industrial Rock of Gibraltar agains'
the international trade condition
which will follow on the Termination
of the European war. The vast ecC
nomic changes to follow the Euro
pean confagration cannot be worked
out by group of men. The test OF
democracy depends upon the contri'
button Of everybody interested in the
maintenance of democracy, 1ndepend'
ent Of political, sectional or racial
considerations.
Just as sometimes industrial plants
are reorganized, so now American In
dustry is undergoing process OF re-
organization. 1t is no longer an age
Of the brutality Of competition, but oi
skill in bringing about coordination.
Business now means making better
men and better conditions for labor
more highly specialized vocational
training, and a non-provincial outlook
and realization that the eventual great
ness of American industry cannot be
measured in terms of dollars and
cents, but in terms Of the manhood Of
the men who constitute the fibre inter
woven in our scheme Of democracy.
Welfare Of Worker Considered.
Measures designed to reduce the
cost of accidents in industry. the high
est degree Of safety apparatus fol
workmen, the study Of fatigue and ita
consequences on the operative, the de-
velopment of the individual efficiency
of workmen, the problem of sickness
insurance, either through voluntary
or involuntary plans; the study Of the
economic factors involved in shorter
working day, the Standardization OF
cost systems-these and dozens Of 9th
er problems are all part and parcel Of
industry today.-IndWstTtGI Conserve
ttoN, NetO York.
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