Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-08
OPERATION KEYNOTE
FOR BRITISH BUSINESS
Employers and Workers Plan to
Get Together on Peace
Basis.
WAR BREAKS DOWN RESERVE
manufacturers Figure on ExcIang-
ing Systems AZ Mutua. Benefit
Proposition-Labor Will Confer
With Chiefs OF Industry.
ny y. VI. GOOnMAN.

LONDON. March -Englishnen have
that they are a nation Of shopkcepers.
and now peace allows them TO go back
to their shops. workshops. factories.
nave always been accustomed TO take
stock and sell off out of-date lines
and begin 4 new season with novelties.
,hcy are clearing out munitions and
KHAKI ana going back to civilian goods
bpt IL is not TO be what the parrot cry
Is business under new conditions Be-
Tore the war business was individu-
a a. &C curing the war it was a kind
iigion is Whitleyism
Whitleyism stands for cooperation.
Co-operation not merely between en-
ployers who wish TO defend them
selves against the encroachmen,s of
labor by initiating labor's weapon. but
cooperation between employers and
employed. so that they can share out
between them the cash they once
Roberts, the late Minister OF Labor.
mas SAID that before the war there
was almost Chinese wall between
one class and another
me war has broken this down. and
Whitlcyism proposes that IL should
eEer.bc rebuilt; that instead Of "A wall
there shall be conference table in
three levels. At the lowest individual
G,i.npioyers and employed Will meet and
t second representatives of en-
pIoyers and employed OF the same
u,nuc ana me same district. trades
union ohcialS and employers REPRE-
"thtativcs VIII deal with their com
mon problems. And at the highest the
n dE!H ri Viii nrsn'h Of particular
WOULD KNOW WHERE
RESPONSIBILITY STANDS
NO trade is obliged to have Whit
icy council, bu, the government warns
ern itself and that its sclf-govcrnmcnt
mus De representative. Anarchy in
srade VII lead to Britain being over
snado"ed by her great competitors.
or some other country might niav car.
ninng,1 all but successful game Of
Industry after another. but the iWSibf'iI ,n
icy scheme aims at real sclf-Covern
mancn ana goes not believe in the per
divduais. IN
II any trade wants a Whitley Coun-
IT must be able to set organized
Iabor at the conference table with or
saniEeo employers II the two sides
a Iha Wen and good If they disagree
etnmeht AT any rate, know with whom
Ihey have TO deal. And the govern
70 whom 1t relinluishcs that control
or industry which IL has held during
inc war. but OF which all classes are
peace. u
The chairman of the Industrial Re-
e9hhsIr9ction Council remarked the
OF employers and employed set up in
me course OF l9ls under the Whitley
s svnetne we're got together as an in
shhrahce against industrial unrest. but
mat they had all Immediately bus:c,i
themselves with large variety of
otner important matters.
Some change is coming over mons
daily work which makes il Interesting
10 them. Sir William Mccormick re.
had enlightened good many emnlov.
ers about their own businesses. They
t nave learned earned where their raw ma
| ished product goes to.
SOME PEOPLE HAD
UNPLEASANT SURPRISES
nr Some ,, people had unpleasant sur,
p pnisfs; IKE iike my friend who was still
pelins til August I, 1914; or the hos hos
f fer I m,a,iniufacturers who had contracts
nsh nook manufa'cturers learned TO
make the latch-needles without which
hosiery machines were so much scrap
iron. Some are now looking forward
10 pleasant surprises. like the manu-
iacturer who broke Il long silence after
hearing. Sir William McCornick's esti-
sclentihc research on trade TO say
business will be 4 great adventure
briaish merchants are only return
ing TO their traditions in becoming as
they were centuries ago. merchant
venturers. but they are breaking al
most new ground in cooperating with
each other. Manufacturers on The
other side of the Atlantic know all
tnere Is TO know about combining on
!he question OF wages and prices But
me br!tlSh manufactures going back
70 peace, conditions sees far beyond
ms. He sees the scientihc labora-
tories where he and his rivals will
pool their problems and the solution
or thein German manufacturers have
mad scientific laboratories in factories
Tor years, but they only shared tn.
IesuitS when they stole each others
scorers or bought each others chemists
salary and great opportunities of re-
search offered to n works chemist nv
GERMAN manufacturer was suspecte1
anu Snadowed II he kept up relations
WIN ms old college chums. His boss
reckoned he had bought him. and was
" thlhS was not attractive 10 Ameri-
cans or .EfngliShmen. SO Germans said
mat Germany had the monopoly of
science. "
PLAN COOPERATION
IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
j., Enflishmen arc going to cooperate
IN scientific research They viii oIso
,rS co operative buying, cooperative
o oraraPGrt ~ of #, bulky material, CO.
markets. II will be like n return 10
me old days, when the London and
niiias.oi merchants combined to buy or
profits "ies i' the
- Other things have been learned by
inrlIish manufacturers during the war.
Ihey know well enough that some
manufacturing BUSINESSES were be1tnr
run man others. But until the Min
lSty of Munitions instituted an elnho
rate system OF costing in controlled
laclorles. no one knew that the cost of