Evening star., 1919-03-02

/ to reduce the production as far as
| they could reduce il and still retain
! their positions.
How This Phase Was Combated.
And even farther than that they would
go. They would destroy the property,
destroy the machines, put sand upon
| the bearings. drive copper nails into
| fruit trees and follow any other meth
| cd that would destroy the productive
iNalue of property, thereby assuming
that with property values DESTROYED:
| they could take over what remained
| themselves To combat that phase OF
it, we referred to the historical fact
| that prior to the introduction of mod
ern iabor-saving devices, when nearly
| everything was produced by hand.
when the production per Individual
was less by far than anything that
would result from any system OF
sabotage they might introduce, there
were still profits for the employers,
| there were still returns for the prop
i erty, and that If these people succeed
| ed in carrying their theories into ell
fect-namely. reducing the amount or
production-instead of destroying the
! values of the property, the real result
would be reduction in the STANDARDS
Of living of the wage-workers them
losophy by that kind of statement.
| We took the ground further tnat
labor and capital had a mutual IN
terest in securing the largest posi-
/ BILE production with given amount oi
| labor, having due regard TO the neAisn, xa
| recreation and Improvement OF the
workers themselves. TIL standard OF
| living of the American wage-Worker
! is higher than the standard OF nsins
! of any other wage-workerss ? shywnSs.
| hecause the American wag. -Workeis
nroduces more In Industrial deveiop
ment. in Industrial activity, II there rs
nothinp produced there is nothing 10
divide. If there is large amount pro
/ duced there is a large amount 70 "a
vide. So the interests ;D~ or lS that
capital are mutual in securing M.
large amount of production, ana ther
| interests diverge only when II cVinss
\ to q division of that which mas oeen
! Jointly produced When TX comes ~
division of that which mas oesh W. ~,
i II nroduced then we contended IND.
f.ir NAV to all parties concerned anu
| the sensible thing for all parties 70 W
Twas to sit around the couhe,i
! and endeavor to work out tne -, a
of the Joint products on as hea 80
! inst hasis as the circumstances
| ynrding yon, the industry would permit.
| And nv processes. of that
! rather than by the use OF Io.s hot-
offset the propaganda ,,,nd OF unou
| sheviki. But there aistsh,ng aiso labor Z
| US the que emnnIy of labor for the
- Industries: finding where IL
unemployed or partly emPios Where
| Transporting it to the Piae; mo-
| - Iras needed for war materiai pr
| s,ctinn: and in that field was .. ~.
,a'anaous amount of conpetition-
| Every corporation that hau tbat
tract with the government iet
! there actually rested upon deIiyarinr
ders the responsibility OF a.;re
| tba product upon time. irrespee..aS
/ 80 u,bather any other corporation waS
| shle to do likewise. Every
| uent production division or
ment felt a like responsibility. anu
| .,.eonan,Iv there was a continuai
! bidding against one another. one ue
I nartment of the government plaoihs
/ against another department ss OF
| government; one corpofation ptu
seainst another corporation. ana
continuaI seesaw going on. not onIy
! for skilled labor. but for common ia
| Dor as well rrh;,a
to find a carload of workers en- rou.e gu
| from Pittsburgh to Detroit 70 tsks
nlaces in the factories at Detroit ana
70 find another trainload OF woIh-
men en- route from Detroit 70
! burgh to take work IN the factories
~ Pittsburgh Now any one can
readtly understand that a policy or
tbat Kind must lose in efficiency NO
man can be efficient at his SOD or
reach the highest standard or en-
cheney until he has became famii,ar
with his machine, familiar with ms
foreman, familiar with his SHOP
mates his shop surroundings, the
methods of routing through the plant.
and all of the things that go to make
IN the sum total of shop life AND
where there is continual movement
from one job to another. even though
there are machines operating every
day, there is loss in the efficiency
of the shop.
We undertook to meet that situa-
tion by endeavoring to place in the
hands of the employment service of
the Department of Labor the sole
duty of supplying the labor to the
factories and munition plants of the
United States and to the building
operations as well. That policy was
but partly in operation when the
armistice took place; but at that time
we had had for some two or three
months complete control of the COM
mon labor service, and were supply
ing it to the various establishments
needing common labor throughout the
country.
Adjustment of Labor Disputes,
We also had TO deal with the problem
OF adjusting labor disputes that arose
from time to time in the various local-
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