Evening star., 1920-03-21
ASKS PUBLIC SHARE
IN BUSINESS GAINS.
Carl Vrooman Counters
! Plumb Plan Before Com
munity Banquet.

counter proposal to the Plumb plan
was offered by Carl Nrooman. former
assistant secretary of the Department
of Agriculture.
THE greatest need of America to-
day is industrial peace. SAID MI
Erooman. THE country will soon be
discussing the proposal of the Presi-
dents second industrial conference. L
wish to propose type of co-opera-
tive partnership that Will be more EN-
Cient than any efficiency expert has
Yet devised, because 1t Will combine
with the most expert management
loyal and enthusiastic esprit de corps
among employees, for lack of which
the business world today is founder
ing about in a half-dazed, semi para
1yzed condition.
Il propose that business men con-
tinue TO finance and manage their
enterprises at present, except for
two things-first, that labor and the
purchasing public be allowed mi
Nority representation on all commit
tees and boards of mana cement, and.
second. that after a reasonable wage
has been paid to capital in the shape
of dividends on capital stock tdepre-
citation and risk being taken into ac-
COUNT, all surplus profit shall be
divided between capital. management,
labor and the purchasing public.
Representatives of the pubnc should
thority and the public's participation
in surplus profts can easily be ar
ranged for by price reductions.
would Eliminate PrOfiteering."
such a plan eventually would re-
suit in the elimination of both prof.
teering and economic domination
without repreSentation-the two most
obnoxious features of our present in
dustrial system. No change in wage
scales, no lavish expenditure on well
fare work and no profit-sharing
schemes that do not involve these two
features should be even as much as
considered in our present crisis
There are times when palliativeS are
worse than futile. when they irri
tate and eXaSperate. We are living
in such times"
At the morning session proposal
was submitted for the formation of
national body to promote community
organization throughout the United
States The proposal was in the form
of resolution, which, after consid-
cradle discussion. was adopted.
Projects discussed at the conference
were the observance of ''Neighbors
day" on June IA, organization of
national executive committee to CO.
ordinate community center work, OBJ
servance of Decoration day and Labor
day simultaneously, use of school
rural communities alike and Coop
erative buying and selling of staple
commodities.
Gompers Pledges Labor's Aid.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor.
pledged the aid of his organization
TO the community work cause. He
declared that organized labor had
been one of the pioneers in civic bet
terment projects.
John H. Patterson of Dayton, Ohio,
told of the relation of community
work to business. Mrs. Arthur H.
Livermore, chairman of the republican
WOmenfS nf Nl1y
York. and member of the board of
directors of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association. urged
that both political parties carry the
message of -AmericaniSm and of
neighborhood cooperation into every
home in connection with their party
canvaSSes.
Rev. Worth NJ. Tippy. chairman of
the social service division of the
Federal Council of ChurcfIe; of Christ
in America. said he believed the
churches were ready to stand behind
a movement the object of which was
not philanthropy or charity. by max
ing dynamic the latent good will and
public spirit in every neighborho0d
and mobilizing people to solve their
own problems. His point of view was
supported by Owen Lovejoy, chairman
OF the national conference of social
work, and William J. Norton of the
Detroit Community Union.
mended the following as members of
the temporary executive committee to
promote Neighbors' day:
Honorary chairman. Franklin X
Lane; chairman, Henry r. Jackson.
bureau of education, Washington, D.
c.; Joseph Lee. president Community
Service. Incorporated: Fred G. Crox-
ton. American Red Cross. Washing
ton. ID. c.; Warren Stone. president
Locomotive Engineers; Miss jose
Cob -
Social Settlements: Rev. Father Ryan,
- Catholic University, Washington, D.
G.; Rev Worth NJ. Tippy, secretary
social service committee, Federal
Harold c. Buttenheim. president
American City Bureau; DR.. G ]. Gal
pin. president the American Farm
Bureau: Edward T. Devine. associate
editor Survey; Allan T. Burns. Car
negie Foundations; William j. Norton
secretary Detroit Community Union;
John Collier. president National AS
sociation of Community Centers; Dr.
w. Rankin. president American Pub
lie Health Associations; Mrs Jose
phine Preston. president National Ed
ucational Association; Miss Ella
Phillips Crandall. secretary National
Public Health Nursing Organization;
William kohn. vice president New
York Central Federated Union; Carl
Vrooman, former assistant secretary
of agriculture; Representative NJ
Clyde Kelly of Pennsylvania: Fred
erick l. Siddons. justice of the Su-,
preme Court of the District of CO.
1umbia; Mrs. Antoinette Funk for
mer chairman womans committee of
the victory loan; George +. Haynes
1nter-Church World Movement, Wash
fnSton, ID. C. representing colored
race); Mrs. Hannah G.. Solomon, Chi
caSo. president National Council of
Jewish Women; Sherman Kingsley
secretary Cleveland Federation; John
r. Richards. director South Park
playground, Chicago, ILL.,; Wilbur c.
Phillips. secretary, and Mrs. KATE
Waller Barrett of the Florence Crit
tenton Home.