The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-11-27
PLANT MANAGERS
BADLY PESTERED
Have Little Time for Business;
Universal Modelling Takes Up
Most Of Their Time.
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outdoor meetings by agitators.
''Contribution to owner of dance hall
about to rent it for indoor meeting by
agitators but willing to change his
mind in possible new light of contri-
button.
Another Graft.
Project for shop council to be or
ganized within shops by experts from
American Shop System. Inc, who will
train employees to elect council and be
interested in council but not inter-
ested in union.
project for new profit sharing
plan.
Project for new wage bonus plan.
Project for new flat-wage- plusde-
ferred-annual-bonus plan, to keep en-
ployes on job till end Of year.
Project for. reducing la Dor turnover
by loaning money to employees to build
cottages that will moor them to the
town and keep them from floating
off to the next town. -,
Annual fees to IL societies for
promoting compulsory military train
ing In hope that habits of obedience
to corporals and sergeants NAV pro-
duce habits of obedience to foremen
and superintendent-ar result lot noted
IN Russia Or Italy but confidently an
tlcipated here.
Cash by messenger to support lee"
ture tour by hero who suppressed
Bolshevik revolutions on Pacific slope.
Five hundred word statement to
business magazine on How I Often
yet my Workers to Work.
And Still Another.
purchase Of assorted SAMPLES Of
devices from Industrial Inspiration
Co., including time clocks, entrance
gongs' exit alarms. wires conveying
continuous production record Of each
machine to electric needle in central
observation station, and red. green.
"hlte' blue and purple blubs flashing
IN 80 combinations before each fore
man 10 indicate state Of working ac
'iVlty OF each worker at each moment.
Letters from Ruthenian Redemn-
lion Circle, asking support for cru-
SADIE to combat illiteracy and radical
ISM among misguided Ruthenians in
american centers of seething Ruthen-
Aah1sm; answered by checks for s5
enaTsed to better relations with en-
ployes.
Labor Man Turned Down.
communication from president of
!ocdl central labor body asking for
interview; answered by letters saw
ing: we are too busy manufacturing
"orsteds to have any time for taking
up any so-called labor problem, and
especially not with individuals or in
Altutions outside our plant"
1t is wearing days work. It is an
eAlaustlng life I claim for that sort
VI employer the tribute of a little hu-
man friendly commiseration. Poor
!eilow! Besides being a manaper of
!ooins' ne has gone and got himself
INTO being also manager Of low snios
VI mounting Americanizers. of mr.
~14asdole professional political pro-
pasand1sts. Of cheap office holdine
mugs, of fakcy scientific manaeement
STARTERS and of all sorts OF n,,ttv and
peanutty social-reform theortzers who
.,luAe out that they can save an in
uustry from the labor movement nv
eprlhkllng 1t with cottages and mot
.oes and a knowledge of the nom
Foreign native language spoken bv
samuel Gompers and other danger.
GUS Aliens
1T is too much. No fellows brain
can stand up under it. And the labor.
movement will really be, doing that
sort of employer a great kinder;no
"hen it pushes him out of his hvster-
zeal side lines and gives him some
finally honestly free workers who will
40 a days work without any electrical
watching devices stitched into. their
s11r1s and lets him therefore go on
PACK to his own job of being an in
oustflal manager, but not a universal
meddler''
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