The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-03
CLOSER kINSHIP is
! THE new IDEAL in
AMERICAN INDUSTRY
Harmony Between Men and Man.
agHm6nt Recognized as a
Desirable Factory Asset.
IS NOW AN INVENTORY ITEM


VIII Of Workers-iis Interest No
& Longer Confined to Conversion Of
sRaw Material. Into Finished Product.
4 No established business can operate
efnciently 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-
p1oyees. There liz the gu ,tion of the
relation Of employer to employee.
There is the item Of the health hy-
giene of artisans. And there is the
Anal item, which is always eloquent,
or 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
eBted In converting raw into finished
product The time has come when all
employers must be interested In the
Quality Of manhood of the men who
work
Industrial conservation means the
preservation and protection Of the
lives, liberties and rights Of men in
I industry as much as 1t does the pro-
lection Of tho economic agencies OF
manufacture. It spells Industrial In
tegrity. The age OF ruthless compe
ttfion IL relegated to the past. The
interests OF employees and employers
are mot necessarily identical, but they
are mutual. If the humblest employee
In any industry Is not interested in
tbs success Of the concern for which
he works he should be eliminated. If
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 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 la
Dor is performed. Cooperation Is not
q question: of wage or hours of labor;
1t is an agency for the the betterment
of employees, stockholders and off,
GERS. II an Industrial concern cannot
manufacture good viii. 1t ought to go
!. out Of business.
Industrial conservation means mobi-
lining Industrial forces. both internal
1y and externally. It means protec-
ton, not in the tariff sense of that
word, but In the sense of establishing
an Industrial Rock Of Gibraltar against
the international trade conditions
which will follow on the termination
of the European war. The vast eco
nomic' changes to follow the Euro
pean confiagration 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, independ-
ent of political, sectional or racial
considerations.
Just as sometimes Industrial plants
4 are reorganized, so now American in
dustry is undergoing process of re-
organization It Is no longer an age
of the brutality Of competition, but of
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
q and realization that the eventual great
aSless of American industry cannot be
ST.