The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1922-03-16
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Boise Payette Lumber Co. Re-
plies to Petition of Local
Four LIS.

Replying 10 Jne peIlIlou Oh tHe Eli
NETT Four LIS, praying that re.
consideration of the order increasing
the hours of labor of employees from
eight to ten hours and urging the
company to retain its membership in
the Four L organization, the Boise
Payette Lumber company, through
its vice president and general mana
ger, C. A. Barton, has sent the fol-
lowing letter:
"To the Officers of Local No. 26,
District IL, Loyal Legion of Log
gers and Lumbermen, Emmett,
Idaho:
Gentlemen: In brief, your petit
tion sets out the following:
"First-That thru the services of
the Four LIS the company has gained
of its men and its employees have
had direct conference with the man
agement.
"Second-That by withdrawal from
the Four LIS the company will lose
some good workmen, and also lose the
confidence and loyalty of others, and
that the community will suffer busi-
ness losses, and the civic ambition of
its employees will be destroyed.
"Third-That the employees are
willing to consider any means to help
the company thru present stresses.
"The company believes that prior
to its membership in the Four LIS
organization it enjoyed the interest,
cooperation and loyalty of its men as
cited in the petition and expects to
be able to continue to hold the same
relation with its employees.
"Under the proposed working con-
ditions the company believes that the
increased daily pay of the employees
will improve rather than injure the
business of the community. The COM
pany does not believe that true civic
ambitions will be repressed by any
action it would propose.
"The company believes that the ad-
ministration of the rules and the dir
ection and conduct of its business
must remain in the hands of the COM
pany, its officers and supervisors. In
1918 the company voluntarily joined
the Four LIS organization and has at
all times retained its constitutional
right to voluntarily withdraw from
that organization.
"Under the present economic con-
ditions, the company cannot continue.
to operate with such enormous losses
as are inevitable under the working
conditions prescribed by the Four l.
organization.
"The company desires to retain the
direct conference with its employees
which it inaugurated thru joining the
Four LIS organization in 1913. The
company recognizes that there are
four parties to industry: Labor, capi-
tai, management and community. It's
policy is to have industrial relations
within the company so regulated that
the rights of all these parties shall be
recognized and respected. This It
seeks to effect bv continuing in its in
dustrial relations a clearly defined
method of joint representation and
procedure, to- be adopted by the en-
ployes and the management in joint
conference and subject to amendment
only in like fashion.
"The employees are invited to join
with the company in working out a
plan of joint representation on the
basis of q square deal in which both
employer and employees are eli0ible
for membership and NAV meet on com
mon ground. This will require mutual
and willingness on the
part of each party to regard and serve
the interests of the others for the !
common good" I