Evening star., 1938-08-18
BUSINESS CHIEFS
WILL MEET HERE
International Management
Conference Expected to
Draw $500.

"oIu AutcIcSt 10 cApcCUcu 70 CcutSI
in the Nations Capital beginning
September 10, when 2,Soo American
and foreign business and industrial
executives and management experts
meet in Washington to discuss the
economic and social aspects Of man
agement in q hve-day series of gen
eral and technical sessions compris-
Ing the Seventh International Man
agement Congress. Headquarters for
the congress will be In the United
States Chamber Of Commerce Build
ing.
In the oficial invitation program,
made public today by William L. Bait
Of Philadelphia, chairman of the Co
ordinating Committee, more than 200
addresses and papers are scheduled
in the fields Of administration, pro-
duction, distribution, personnel, agri-
culture and home management. Up
wards of 80 countries will be rep
2CccAVCu ny Vic par dILAClpdlltS.
Foreign Views Given Place.
Featuring the general sessions will
be the presentation of both the Ameri-
can and foreign points of view on
management. including addresses by
Gino Olivetti of Italy on "Employe
Security as q Responsibility Of the
State" and by Ralph E. Flanders,
president Jones dz Lamson Machine
Co.. on THE Balancing of Incentive
and Security" G. Seebauer Of Ger
many will speak on "The Social As
poets of Scientific Management" while
w. ]. Cameron of the Ford Motor
Co. and A. Basch of Czechoslovakia
will present the joint point Of view
Of their respective nations on "The
Continuance of Free Enterprise"
Among other speakers announced
are Cordell Hull, Secretary Of State;
Daniel c. Roper, Secretary Of Com
merce; Lewis H. Brown. president
Johns -Manville Corp, who will speak
on "Managements Aims and Respon-
sibilities";; Karl T. Compton, presi-
dent Massachusetts Institute Of Tech
nology, who has taken as his topic
THE Influence of Technical Progress
on Social Development" and William
Allen White, editor Emporia Gazette,
whose subject will be The Public's
Concern for Industrial Harmony"
Robertson to Speak.
A. w. Robertson, chairman West
inghouse Electric e. Manufacturing
Co., will speak on 'Management's
Responsibility to Society,"" and Os-
valid Knauth, president Associated
Dry Goods Corp. Of New York. on
"Reshaping Distribution to Modern
Economy" Robert j. Watt. Ameri-
can Workers delegate to the Inter-
national Labor Once, and John G..
Winant, director of the International
Labor Ofice and former Governor of
New Hampshire, will make addresses,
respectively, on "Labor's Aims and
Responsibilities" and "The Social and
Economic Aspects Of Management"
Mr.. Bait, in making the program
public, stated that the congress Is q
triennial event and Is being held In
the United States for the first time.
The congress is the result Of months
Of planning by leading executives Of
American business organizations" Mr..
Bait declared.
Conceived as q frank and open
discussion of management's relation
to pressing current-day and future
economic and social problems, it will
effect An invaluable exchange of ex-
perience on the part OF alert minds
of many countries"
Leaders to Preside.
Among the presiding officers at the
various general sessions will be G. s.
Ching, director of industrial and pub
lie relations. United States Rubber
Products, Inc; Clarence Francis, pres
ident General Foods Corp: DR.. Harvey
N. Davis, president Stevens Institute
of Technology: w. Averell Hartman
of Brown Bros, Hartman & Co.;
Charles r. Hook. president American
Rolling Mill, and Leverett S. Lyon.
executive vice president Brookings In
stitution.
Sponsoring the congress is the In
ternational Committee of Scientific
Management, of which the Right Hon.
Viscount Leverhulme of Great Britain
is president and Harry Arthur Hopf
of H. A. Hopf g. Co. is deputy presi-
dent. The International Committees S
affiliate is the National Management
Council, comprising the American
Management Association, American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, As
sociation Of Consulting Management
Engineers, International City Man
ayers Association, Life once Man
agement Association, National Once