The labor standard., 1922-02-15
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New Jersey Chamber of Com- merce Wants Workers Ap- pointed on Bodies Dealing With Questions on Industry

With Questions on Industry
 NEW JERSEY-Construc co. operation with labor organizations 1T indixldual shops, in an industry-wide scope, is recommended to employers as the. best solution of the industrial re- lations problem in report just ap- proved by the Executive Committee of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce and adopted by its Board of Trustees.
 The State Chamber is urged to try to have representatives of organized labor appointed to committees which deal with workmen's compensation unemployment and other questions vitally affecting labor, as we'll as the employers and the public. Employers and workmen are also called upon to get together and purge themselves of those domineering and abusive prac- tices which stand in the way of their greater usefulness"
 Code Is Outlined The report outlines specific code of ethics for handling industrial rela- tions, which provides for collective bargaining and greater cooperation. l The recommendations and report are | gation by the Chambers Committee on Industrial Relations, which con- sists of Charles D. Freeman, Chair man, of J. W. Jay 6 Co.,; L. K. Com stock, President L. K. Comstock Com pany; Sam s. Lewisohn, Adolph Lew isohn 6 Sons; Ernest J. Draper, President American Creosoting Com pany; Weller H. Moves, Swift & Co.,; T. P. Sylvan, New York Telephone Company; c. M Wheeler, Crocker- Wheeler Company; Paul Studensky, Secretary to the Committee.
 The committee makes these specific recomme
 We recognize that the manage ment of the personnel of industry should be carried on in no less thor ough and scientific manner than the management of physical problems of production, and suggest therefore that:
 "There should be developed in our State Departments of Labor expert consulting services that would spread among employers the knowledge of improved methods of shandling per sonnel; employers associations and Chambers of Commerce should foster the development within their own bodies of such expert consulting ser vices; employers should take the initiative in establishing in their own shops personnel departments, or where on account of size this is inn practicable, advice en personnel preb-- lems should be secured elsewhere; there should be greater appreciation by labor, organized as we'll as unor- ganized, of the benefits which may come through the efforts of experts in enlightened management of the per sonnel.M
 For Fair Representation
 "The establishment of shop repre- sentation, carefully devised and fair to all concerned, should be encouraged.
 "In constituting committees which deal with workmen's compensation, unemployment and other questions which vitally affect labor, as we'll as the employers and the public, the State Chamber should endeavor to have representatives of organized la bor alongside those of the other in- -terests affected
 "The practice which the State Chamber has been following of having it's committees base their decisions on the investigations made by it's Blu reau of State Research; of maintain ing the research work of the latter
 
 dictation from the officers or mem bers of the Chamber as to the char aeter of facts or conclusions to be pre- sented; of publishing the reports of the bureau free of all censorship, and of merely seeing that the men carry ing on the research be thorough and unbiased students, fearless in their work-this practice is sound and should be continued and further de- veloped. ~
 "We call upon both employers and wofkmen, wherever they are organ ized and negotiate with each other, to redouble their efforts toward purg- ing themselves of those domineering and abusive practices which stand in the way of their greater usefulness, and to develop more consistently the rule of reason in their dealings and such constructive experiments of in |dustry-wide cooperation between them as have been begun.
 "The efforts of all concerned should be directed toward devising measures for the regularization of industry and reduction and prevention of unem- ployment." @