The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-27
CHAMBER VOTES
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 grocer and others he has dealings with and ask him whether or not he endorses it. It Is as follows:
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 'Thc following IS statement Ot what your committee on industrial relations believes to be the standard of industrial relations that should prevail in New Haven. The standard embraced by this statement aims to employers and employees, but also the standards of the community itself in it's inter-rclatiOns with these two clc- ments in it, and should be used as the measure to determine the relative merits of any question in dispute. With a statement of such standard of relations, 1t is possible for that part of the community not directly in volved to accurately determine the merits of any possible controversy, and by so doing lend it's support to- ward the proper settlement of the question. It has been found desirable in other places to make the standards of industrial activities of the. com munity a matter of record for this purpose, and for this reason your committee feels that New Haven should be among the first to lead.
 Tt IS common practice to divide a community into three distinct parts employers, employees and the general public. Your committee believes that this distinction is largely artificial, and that no community is susceptible to any such division. Each of these three parts is so interdependent as to be practically indistinguishable and that this becomes more obvious as the industrial standards of the community ! are more accurately defined.
 | We also believe that industrial unrest decreases in direct proportion las all parts of the community work 1 in common to the maintenance of a 1 high and predetermined standard oi industrial relations, for the COmmun- lity as we'll as any given industrial 1 unit in that community.
 1 "With this purpose in view we have, therefore, prepared the follow 1 ing statement of standards or what with which to measure industrial ac- tiviticS of our own community
 Open or Closed Shop.
 I've believe that employment should not be dependent upon mem bership in any organization whatso- ever, and that employers should not discriminate in the employment or discharge of employees on the ground that they are or are not members of trade or labor unions, and that em- ploycs should not insist that only members of trade or labor unions should be employed in any given or ganization. Entire freedom of con- tract should exist between employer and employe, without interference by any outside interest not a primary party to the contract.
 We believe that the public inter est is dependent directly on maxi mum production possible; that large production results in lower unit cost which in turn develops large de- mand, thus, developing steady activity at minimum commodity prices; that every effort should be made to reach this result; that methods of pay should be used which encourage . 1 maximum individual production, anC that such pay should also be propor- toned 10 the individual effort anC that the more efficient worker should not be limited in his earnings to the capacity of the less efficient
 Working Conditions and Hours O.
 Work.
 "We believe that the public inter est requires that every effort should be made to provide the most satis- factory conditions of employment with regard to sanitation, heat, ligh1 and ventilation, adequate safety de