Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-08

IDGER-PHILADELr
gether; the worker in the lower class o.
yesterday IL In the higher class tomor-
row. II is not y.ry many years since
here. There is no reason why the mas,
In the ranks should not forge to the front
as you see them doing here.
The organization we are BUILDING
here, this Mitten management. is wholly
and ,5 solely for , the pose o5 ans
behind must come the men. pushing, ever
pushing. so that It Is all one force
driving to accomplishment.
On Solid Foundation
I'VE have built our foundation soundly,
preparing for this new idea We have
based our wages upon the average VI
four principal cities. II wages come
down In these four cities 1t will be be.
cause living costs have como down.. AMI
we will br ng our costs OF living down
accordingly.
1.-THE cooperative wage dividend Is
something additional That we will keep
and you are entitled to It, because you
ore going to earn It by the character OF
service that is part Of this msnase-
IneHt, W SuSCCSS oeSOht
plishmcnt as compared to other cities.
where, say the best YOU may OF them,
labor is Indifferent and sometimes pull
ing back.
I'VE will be even more successful in
the future than In the past because we
are moro highly attuned. No ordinary
management could take n property which
has been pushed to the front as we
have pushed this In economic results
and gay that they would do what /
am telling you We must do.
We must produce net income which
means a decreased operating cost Of ap-
proximately $4,000. 900 in order to get
the money to pay this cooperative wage
dividend I am telling you about. No
ordinary managc ment could do II. But
we are tuned up. we have spent all these
years getting into place where every
man. every woman will consider this
business their business, will look at waste
as waste from their pockets. Will look
at the passenger that we want on the
car as you would look at that passenger
II you were running a little shop and
had to have that customer to live.
Need Of Super-Co-opcration
THE super-co- operation am talking
Of means that we will all try to eliminate
waste, to better serve the people; con-
ductors to be interested in seeing that
people are we'll and carefully handled
motormen doing as In a case reported
10 me yesterday, using the head instead
OF the Mouth entirely. This motorman,
track ahead Of him which had dragged
him two blocks. opened the door and
said: Say, Bo, there's sixty-one people
In th.. car and only one In your wagon.
Give them a chance to get to their work =!
the ,hns thas Quilted the a'c why OF x i
would appeal to any reasonable man.
Then another case reported to me
yesterday. of woman stepping off into
a snowdrift and the conductor saying:
Now madam I will just close the door.
and II you will walt minute until we
pull out you can then step back on the
track and have clear walking That's
the right spirit.
Then had two cases, one OF which
was super-co-operation and the other
was not One conductor smiled and
smiled and was 30 agreeable under prov.
ocation that the whole car sympathized
with him. Work like this Is all to the
good. The other conductor. in n hurry.
said roughly to a dear old lady getting
Dff the car. Step lively, step lively In
such q cross tone Of voice that her
motherly old face looked sorrowful and
everybody In the car wanted to bawl him
out.
Asks Pledge OF Loyalty
"These are some Of the things that l
mean when 1 talk Of super-co-opcrat ton,
80 that when we come to the Sesqui-Cen-
tennial and perhaps long before that
every conductor will be CHESTERFIELD
and every motorman will be an Al
operator.
Il want from you now. as n justiflca-
titon for my going on with this broader
phase OF my work--1 want from you an
assurance that makes me know you are
behind me when I say to the stockhold-
ers:
I'VE will earn your dividend we will
also undertake to earn for ourselves Il
wage dividend equal to 10
per cent Of our pay after your dividend
is paid , , - ..o,
when my associates or the men to whom
you directly r,port point out. to you
what IL necessary to be done. cheerfuliy,
energetically and enthusiastically you
THAT is what I want. That alone will
this work as against saying, My job
Is done. my work Is completed
This is not the ultimate end that We
seek, because. az have told you before,
the mountains that I want to lead you to
am not ready to speak Of. This is
another step on the road: but you must
be right behind me, supporting and JUS
tifying everything say of what YOU can
do and what you will do"
Men Give Their Side
The following letter expressing the
mems viewpoint, written BY Alfred c.
Kellogg. employe committeeman of the
Frankford depot has been received:
"Sir-I wonder If the militant five
directors in the 2. r 7. proxy contro-
versy really take themselves seriously ?
During recent days there have ap-
red In the local papers all manner OF
reasons for their antagonlsm to Mr..
Mitten and his management. Do they
realize that 1t Is precisely because there
was 'one-man control Of this property
that what was u d!lapidated wreck IN
1910 Is today one of tho three model
public utilities Of America?
Under the same conditions could they
have done SO well? / think not They
belong TO an era II industrialism when
places dividends above humanity or
service.
TO them the laborer is not worthy Of
his hire they have no interest in COM
mon with him: he Is merely q tool whose
activities make 80 much toward divl-
dends Except when a war threatens he
is hardly considered an American. Their
attitude ia the attitude Of yesterday
They shout cooperation and practice
coercion.
Mittcn's Record Cited
When Mr.. Mitten completes a Won.
derful ten-year record as an admins
trative head Of a public utility he Is not
10 be praised. but rather shunted mt
oblivion. They have nothing to teat
merely take over n perfectly smooth
They do not seem to grasp the idea that
that eng ne Is smooth running because OF
the eugncer--becauSe the men anG
women who form its component par s