The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-14
BIG PIPE PLANT IS PLACEDONTHOROUGH
 COOPERATIVE BASIS
Employees Have Organized Board of Operatives for Handling Their Problems and Presenting
 Them to the Management

by the directors with the operation of the business and the execution of policies of the board. Democratic Organization
 Formation and installation of these
 two boards. Board of Management and Board of Operatives" enables that thoroughly democratic and CO., operative organization of which Mir. Eagan spoke in his December state- ment. The machinery is so simple
 that immediate consideration and
 disposal of important matters may be obtained with justice and fair ness both to the organization and to the employees.
 Acipco News, official organ, of the plant, thus succinctly states the ac- complishment that has been reached by completion of the board of opera tives:
 What the management proposed. and what the employees have accepted, in reality Is a means of complete CO., operation between itself and the em- ployes. This means:
 First. that the responsibility for obtaining results rests on the shoulders of all. and,
 Second, that, having obtained re- suits, the benefits derived will be shared by all on an equitable basis. Real Benefits "The word benefits means such things as profit sharing in the form of dividends or additional wages. un- employment insurance. old age pen and so~forth."
 In his statement of last Decem- Der, President Eagan expressed con- fidence in the ability of the manage ment and the men to cooperate on tho principles of the golden rule," for the reason that progress had already been made" saying in par ticular:
 wages and Work "One illustration of this Is that for the last 12 months we have pro- vided employment for all employees of this company. This has not been easy.
 Another sign of the spirit of Christ in our plant is that we are
 paying wages above the market. If we are to be able to continue to pay more than the market wage, it must be because our men do better work. turn out more manufactured product,
 cause less breakare and repair work in short are worth more to our company than these lower paid men
 are worth to the companies for which they york;
 Negro Y. M. O. A. The board of management has also inited the negro employees to select l2 representatives on the board Of directors of the colored Y. NJ. c. A.
 These representatives have been chosen in the same manner as mem bers of the board of operatives were selected by the white employees with proportionately the same representa- ton from the different shop depart ments In which the negroes are em- ployed.
 The general idea of the CO., operative plan. as expressed in the various statements and explanations made of 1t before final submission Tor acceptance by the employees was
 declared by the management to be
 this; Under this plan an employe
 Will not only work for the company,
 but he will work for himself" Having been five months in the forming, the cooperative system be- tween management and employees at the Acipco plant has come into being at the deliberate choice of both and
 begins operations with a thorough
 understanding and appreciation of the plan and what 1t promises.
 On Solid Foundation
 The American Cast Iron Pipe com pany plant is one of the most sue cessful In the entire south and has been distinguished many years for the attention which it has given to the physical and moral well-being or US employees. with the result that It's operations have been remarkably Tree from friction, disturbance. dis cora or Interruption of any Kind. !. MT. Eagan Is building on a founda- ton that was already solid.