The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-23

A-There are only a few companies that have tried loss sharing coupled with profit sharing and one of them is right here in Bridgeport. Profit sharing has admirable features when it is done right. Wages and hours and treatment of men must come first. If you have profit sharing first, you will throw out profit sharing within year. If conditions are right I believe in profit sharing or anything else that will give the men a sense that they are partners in the same boat with the management, having a stake in results. I sat a few days ago with the Goodyear house and senate in the Goodyear assembly. The work question. The 30,000 men of the Goodyear company had to be cut 50 per cent These workmen and fore men in the assembly were planning with the management how to get over that situation.
 Anything that brings men closer to 1 the management is good. We don't want strangers and aliens under the roof of the organization where we get our bread and butter. There is no magic in profit sharing or any one plan. But it is a good business to | stand for anything done without self l advertisement which brings the man.
 agement and men into a sense of partnership.
 Q-Suggest a few ways to enable the foremen to better understand the | human olemGntI
 | A-There is a whole lot of bunk
 sold in the shape of handbooks on
 how to tell a bookkeeper from a, l plumber. Look into your own hearts
 You know the kind of treatment you l thrive under. You know the things
 that get on your nerves, and if you | follow that you will do better than
 any book can give you. You have to
 believe in what you are doing, though,
 and really care for the other fellow Any who ha
 and doesn't need any apologies to 1 handle human nature.
 CA certain factory has a super
 visors' group. Is it good policy to
 take employees into the group?
 A-There are times when super
 visors and men should get together
 and there are other times each
 should meet separately without fear standing.
 l Q-In what manner has the 18th Amendment to the Constitution help
 ed the laboring man?
 | A-Well, it has made trip to | Canada a great necessity for the
 travelling man and Cuba a health re-
 sort. When you took the saloon out
 of industry you took away half of the
 troubles that have afflicted industry
 and three-fourths of the troubles that have afflicted the drinking mans
 home. It was the greatest piece of l sanitation that ever took place in the l United States. If we were a people
 that could take our liquor without l abuse in moderate amounts with our
 meals, there would be beer and wine
 in this country, and I'm not sayine
 we would be worse off We tried
 the other game. It was terribly ex- pensive. It brought men ugly into
 the shop, a desperate condition into , the home. Industry had to get rio of the saloon. The liquor traffic was
 never in danger from the reformers l from fy-a,~ h.
 church organizations The liquor
 traffic had the skids put under il when the foremen and the thinking workmen said that sort of thing , couldn't go on with modern ma
 chinery, with accident compensation laws and so on. Industry abolished , the saloon. Having done that the men need recreation. That is the reason for the athletic and recreation : work the industries are providing wish we had gone into a big program of that before the saloon was swep : out. If any men ever carried on [ business so as to invite destruction : the owners of the liquor business did . If they weren't friends of their busi
 ness we have nothing to say for them Q-Would like an opinion as t' r higher executive directing a work c man over the foreman's head?. ! A-That is bad organization. a Q-Does the foreman of today
 working under centralized- contro t need higher executive capacity 0 t more technical knowledge?
 Il A-Yes. For all the subdivision e of duties, the foreman needs greate V executive capacity today, even thougi = he may not have all the initiative il q every direction he had before. # Q-Why didn't the foremen get tn t same recognition in increased com e .pensation as the men under him t Al don't know what happened i