The Connecticut labor news., 1921-11-04
ENCLISHMAN UPSETS PET
 THEORY OF ANTI-LABOR
 BUNCH AT CONFERENCE
Takes Issue With Inter national Paper Com . pany Head and Boldly Declare T h a t Through Organized Labor Only Is Indus trial Peace Secure.

lTldI T 0dC0 00Cu1 Os
 The most scathing ebuke that the profteering, anti-labor elem ent in the United States, which is seeking to disrupt unionism and coerce the workers at large, ever received, was administered to them this week by the former British Minister of Munitions be- fore the opening session of the In dustrial Relations Association of America conference at New York this week. The speaker was B. Seebohm RoWntree, managing dir ector of ROwntree & Go. Ltd. of London, one of the largest firms i'll the United Kingdom and was in reply to a bitter attack on trade unionism by Philip T. Dodge, president of the International Paper company whose mills are now being struck against and also head of the Mergenthaler LlnO- type Company where unionlsm has also had it's battles.
 "There was no decision says The New York World in comment ing on the addresses, "as it was not a debate. But few addresses following one another at single function have had their basis in more singularly diverse -experi- ences and created more interest and comment On the one hand was a famous employer of British Labor favoring unionism as panacea for industrial peace and on the other all outstanding chief tain of American Industry. At the close of Mr. Dodge s address the audience applauded, adds the World, but at the close of MT. Rowntree's it not only applauded but rose to its feet and gave him rousing cheers of appreciation.
 Dodge declared for a state con- stabulary ill every state, thus die closing the real reason for the bills for such bands offered in the leg islatures this year. MT. Rowntree discouraged need of such troops and said all that is necessary is to treat with the workers decently. Since the organization of his firm in 1887 not single strike had oc- cured among his employees be- cause of this system, he naively added.
 Philip T. Dodge, President of the In ternational Paper Company and President of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company denounced unionism as the foster father If inefhciency, industrial terrorism and declared the International Paper Com pany, whose organized employees have been on a strike since May and only eleven of whose eighteen mills are now operating, would never treat with the unions of workers.
 B. Seebohm Rowntree. Managing Dir ector of Rowntree & Co.,, Ltd, of York, England, Director during the war of the Welfare Department of the British Min istry of Munitions, which supervised in dustrial relations in more that 5000 mills and factories, praised unioniSm as a promoter of industrial peace and pros- perity and said that when there IS any
 
 directs, he sends for the trade union Sec retary to Straighten 1t out, and added that the difficulty more often than not was composed.
 BOARD SETTLES DISPUTES.
 Mir. ROWntree even declared he and other British employers have adopted by agreement with the workers a scheme by which all disagreements, as for in stance the question of the dismissal of a worker, IS referred to board equally representative of the employer and the workers with af impartial Chairman, and asserted that if this board decides the dismissed worker should be rein stated, reinstatement is automatic over the head of the employer. He further asserted the willingness of himself and other employers who have adopted the idea to submit to such reinstatement.
 The addresses were delivered at a dinner marking the opening of the third annual convention of the Industrial Re- lations Association of America, composed of the personnel, employment and train ing managers of many of the largest in dustrial and commercial establishment. in the country. The audience applauded ~the address of Mir. Dodge, but the finish of MT. Rowntree's speech there was not only prolonged applause, but the diners finally rose in body ih tribute of ,ap- preciation
 Mir. Dodge, as usual with profiteering manufacturers, opened his remarks with
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