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low ing Il before the emotional ef-
feet wears of. Coal storage must
become "a habit instead of a parox-
ysm II the coal question is to be set
tied right"
Introduced By Chairman Henry Il
AIorency as the father Of profit
sharing IN industry" Col. j. f. Cal
Iahan asserted that the industrial
unrest or the present is not merely
"a demand for better wages and
shorter hours. Workmen want rec
ignition Of their status in society.
Hard TO Explain.
Because Of conditions that are
difficult 10 explain" Callahan aver
RED" a caste system has unCOnSci-
ously developed ia this country.
Wage learners have always resented
the distinction and are coming more
and more 10 voice their disapproval.
Our present wage-systeGi will have
70 20 and I hope it viii go soon.
II IS only two or three hundred
years old yet II has created dissatis-
faction that makes its early aban-
AUNlNENA itLfnrftA ~ tlAr t- t<Ll lltA p
are comine, 70 demand social and in
dustrial recognition and they are
getting it.
stockholders and capitalists saw
the drift a few years ago and began
Introducing welfare movements,
bonus systems and numerous other
paternalistic plans. but because they
were paternalistic and because the
workingmen thought employers were
slipping something over on them
they have all failed. The wage
Garner wants representation and IL
is not benevolent nor is IL charitable
that capitalists are seeing they get
both representation and a share in
the profits"
All share Profits.
Col. Callahan then explained that
his cooperation plan had been "a Op-
Grafton seven years and had success
fully weathered the lean year Of
1914 and the more prosperous years
OF 1917 and 1913. Workers in his
plant get wages IA high as any in
Louisville and no one gets less than
a MINIMUM permitting a respecta-
bic Anglican livelihood. In addi-
tion TO wages. the workers at the end
of the year share equally with the
stockholders in the profits of the
concern. Some years the profits
have totalled as much rs IS per cent
OF the workers wages.
Efficiency and loyalty have been
developed 10 an extent hitherto un-
known in any industry according to
Callahan because the wage earne
are in reality part owners or the
plant The workers appreciate the
fact that returns can not be great
every year. In 1914 when returns
were small and when talk of soup
kitchens was common, workers in
the Callahan plant found uninter-
rupted employment and liberal
wages
''E'raternizing Is encouraged in my
plant" said Callahan, and there Is
no open hostility, no nl-feeling be-
tween officers and workmCn. All
are interested. all are loyal. all are
industrious because all are owners. "
IN after-remarks he pointed out
that his plan was not hostile TO or
ganized labor and he asserted that
organized labor by insisting on Ia
boris rights had done much for the
workingman Of the country.
First of Series.
The meeting Saturday was the
Grst OF a series planned by the Norte
Dame Chamber OF Commerce. After
the holidays other speakers of ma
tiOnal prominence in the industrial
world will come 10 South Bend 20
deliver lectures Henry L. MOrency
presided at the meeting Saturday.
Rev. John T. OHara- head OF the
school OF commerce at Notre Dame
and referred 10 by Paul w. Brown
as doing more for his cOuntry's
commercial interests in South Amer
ica than any other man in the Unit
ed States. in teaching South Ameri-
can aims and Ideals" directed the
meeting. Included on the student
committee IN charge were: @. II.
Slains. J. T. Bslfe, J. NJ. Montague.
J.. J. Momsen. W. 7. Stuhldreher, r.
: hill r. +. Williams, J. g. Norton.
II. Riley. J. 2. Loosen, NJ y.
Schwart1, G.. Hamilton. Il D. Kelley,
Y. o. Smith. +. Berger. r J. Nash,
J. II. Thompson, and q. a Patter-
son.