The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-25

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After we had talked over old
times for half an hour or so. he
said to me: Friend Freeman, you
have written a lot about the neces-
sity of workers in business organi-
cations pulling together to get the
best results.
eff you can spare the time, drop
in at the Waldorf-Astoria next Mon
day, or Tuesday or Wednesday,
November %, %, "a. / think you
will be interested in finding out how
the workers in the Doherty organi-
cation do things. We are to have
a conference of executives who are
coming here from all sections of the
country.
81 suppose you know the Doherty
organization has over 10000 work
ers distributed in many states. We
have over 100 public utilities which
we direct and finance. Our business
is very big and very important. We
have great many executives. They
meet frequently. The result of
these meetings is concerted action
all along the line-a real pull-to-
gether."
I dropped in at the Waldorf
Astoria on Monday afternoon
about 2 o'clock. The corridors
were filled with a sturdy looking
lot of men. There were so many
of them that l did not associate
them with the Doherty organiZa-
ton.
I asked at the information desk
to be directed to the executive con-
ference of the Doherty organiza-
ton and was told to go to the Roof
Garden floor of the Waldorf
Astoria.
When | arrived there l was
amazed to see a large room filled
with chairs-enough to accommo-
date 400 or more men. / thought
| had made a mistake, so l asked
if the Doherty executives met in
this big room and I was told they
did.
When the afternoon session
started at 2:30 the room was filled
with as fine looking body Of men
as l have seen gathered at one
meeting in New York City, and I
have attended hundreds of meet
ings during the % years have
lived in this city.
A program for the executive confer
ence of the Doherty organization was
handed to me and / noticed that meetings
were scheduled for three days, from 10: 80
A. NJ. to IL 80 P. M. and from 2:30 P. M.
until 5 80 P. M. 1t sure did look like real
business, and had not been at the Mon
day afternoon session very long before l
realized that these men had come to-
gether to discuss problems of their big
business frankly and freely.
The first thought that came to me as
/ sat in that conference listening to papers
read by executives was this:
There must be wonderful spirit in
this organization if more than $50 men
from all sections Of the country would
leave their homes to take part in a con-
ference on the three days preceding
Observation-Disclosures great national
holiday.
They knew they could not get back to
their homes for the Thanksgiving dinner.
After the Monday afternoon confer
ence had adjourned l met several Of the
executives and spoke to them about lcav-
ing their homes before Thanksgiving Day.
Every man let me know very plainly
that he regarded it as a great privilege to
attend meeting Of the members of the
Doherty organization at any time or at
any place-that at this particular time it
was real Thanksgiving party, because
the organization had passed through a
very successful two years since the
Armistce was signed.
This thought was aptly expressed by
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