Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-10-05
HARVESTER HEAD SEES NEW ERA IN INDUSTRIAL WORLD Relations Must Be Somethino Besides Cash Basis, He
 Says.

Cleveland, O., Oct. 1.-The eX- pressed desire of labor to share in the management of business was de clared today by Cyrus Mccormick Jr. works manager of the International Harvester company, to be in his opin, 1 ion "the most significant feature in i labor conditions of the day" Mr Me l Cormick was speaking before the Na- ] tional Safety council on "Cooperation and Industrial Progress"
 Pointing out that this desire had taken various forms in various parts of the world, bolshevism in Russia strikes in Central Europe, recourse to the "Whitley Plan" in England and clamor for the naturalization of industry, the harvester head contin- ued:
 No Cash Basis.
 "The underlying significance of all these movements in the final req lization that the relations of em- 1 ployers and employees must from now on be fored on something besides a cash basis. The workman is an in- terested as ever in his wages and in his hours, putting them forward What the workman really wants is self-expression. They are asking the right tod iscuss and adjust matters affecting their own interests
 "Many employers in this country the right of their employees to dis l Io,,, fecting the joint interests of capital and labor. This, of course, has n- volved the recognition of the prn- ciple of collective bargaining"
 Just as the doctrine of "caveat amptor" has vanished from business so now is vanishing the fear of col! lective bargaining. Mr. Mccormick said and We find ourselves not only permitting the right of workmen tc participate in the determination o1 working conditions but also discuss. ing how this right may be most sure ly exercised" The method finding most favor in this country he termed Employee Representation" and it! consideration by American employers he ascribed to four general reasons CD fear of bolshevism and conse quent anarchy: (2) democratizatioJ of industry: (3> a desire to introduce "moral right" into industry; and (4I because it will eventually prove mos, efficient and economical.
 Benevolent Despotism.
 Until recent years the American industrial system was a "benevolent despotism." he asserted with the large employers instituting systems of insurance. workmen''s compensa tion and welfare work, but "every thing that was done was imposed from the top and did not come as 2 result of the expressed desire of the great body. of the employees" This was benevolent, he conceded but also to great extent despotic. "Now tho employe is not only given the right but is urged to accept it, to sit or an equal basis with his employer ant decide every question which affects his interests" said the speaker.
 He described what he conceived tc be the fundamental principles under lying any plan of employe represen tation and told how successful ths nlan had been at the Internationa Harvester plants where it is in effect
 Through it "capital and labor arc finding a very pleasant mutual un derstanding of each others prob )ems," he said. and the gan left by the growth of industry which des troyed the personal contact betweer emrloyer and employe is being bridged. "The workings of the plar have called unon the representatives of the men and the management alike to put forward their keenest intel1i pence." MT. Mccormick said and the International Harvester company has been able to discover many inequali ties in the wage scale that it "dit not dream existed"
 Family Feeling.
 The American Federation of Labor has mistaken the trend of employt representation. be contended and nc one who has sat through meetings of { Works council could believe any ol the charges of the resolutions pass ed at the last A. F. L. convAntio, "iustifiable" They condemned the plan on the grounds of unfail elect ion of representatives; that demo cratic organization was not permitted and that committeeman were intimi dated. Mr. McCorimck asserted ii was not set up in opposition to or panization labor and was not an en deavor to create comnanv unions o, do anything "to depriv ethe men oI the results which long years Of indus