Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-10-18
TIRE MANUFACTURER
 FORECAST PROSPERITY

Denver, Colorado, Oct 12, 1919.
 America is on the threshold of the greatest mechanical development in history. Progress in that direction in the past decade will dwindle to nOth- ing in contrast with advancement in the next few years.
 Machinery must take the place of men. Workers are demanding and will receive more leisure. Inventions must increase production to take care of shortages that will follow the uni versal shorter working day, with it's near famine in man. power
 "There are three partners in mod ern industry: Capital, labor and con sumer. The employer who does not take into his confidence and partner ship the men who make and the per sons who buy his products, who does not give these individuals voice in the policy and operation of his bus mess, will have small place in the in dustrial affairs of the future.
 Mechanical progress, with its shorter hours and easier working con- ditions, is the most effective weapon against radicalsm and anarchy.
 "Bolshevikism and democracy can not live under the same industrial roof. There is no room nor reason for radicalism in the United States. Properly fed and comfortably housed, labor is immune from the Bolshevikist malady. The germ of Bolshevikitis breeds in an empty stomach and thriv- es in filthy environment" N
 Thus Charles c. Gates, Denver rub Der manufacturer, forecasts the indus trial outlook in the United States. MT. Gates does not believe the nation or the world on the brink of disas- trous labor upheavals. He is out of sympathy with calamity prophets who picture continuous and costly warfare between capital and worker. He be- lieves employer and employee today are nearer the common level than ever in the history of world industry. And he believes that for the first time in the history of industrialism the par tnership relations of employer and employee is being understood.
 MT. Gates has adopted coopera- tive plan for bringing closer together the management and the workers in his own factory This system, he says, has been on trial long enough to place it beyond the experimental stage, and is notable chiefly for it's simplicity and effectiveness.
 '"The plan," explained the manufac- turer, "gives every worker in the fac tory an opportunity to rub elbows exchange views. and get into close working harmony with the manage ment and department heads.
 "It has operated without hitch, and apparently has removed from the factory organization all traces of frlc- tion and jealousies. It has put work CTS and management on a common level. and has resulted in such uni yersally good feeling in the institution that we have become known in Denver as The Gatesville clan.
 An interfactory club that meets twice month to "talk shop" is the Gates plan for promoting harmony and the welfare of workers. Member shin in this club is representative of every department of the plant. At the meetings held on the roof garden of a factory unit, mechanics and mlll- men meet and dine with the executive and owner. They break bread and exchange views with the heads of de- partments and the management. They dine at the expense of the com pany, and discuss factory methods and business policy with fellow work CTS of all positions.
 Membership in the Gates club IS goal coveted by every man in the or panization. Ambition, ingenuity and originality are the qualifications to admittance. The worker who calls attention to his efforts by original and constructive thinking is candi- date for the Gates club.
 Mir. Gates gives credit to the club for much of the success and pheno- menal growth of the Gates factory
 The manufacturer then explained what the club and the company are doing to encourage constructive think ing, especially along the lines that he predicts are to signal the dawn of new era of mechanical achievement and industrial reform.
 He digressed from the topic long enough to fire broadside at Bolshe- yikism and anarchy and to forecast a three-conered partnership of capi- tai, labor and consumer in all pros porous business pursuits of the future. This condition, he believed could be brought about by cooperative systems similar to plans in operation at the