Evening star., 1938-09-21
NAz| LABOR PLAN
|SLAUDED BEFORE
CONFERENCE HERE
Task for Every Man Has
Advanced Germany,
Speaker Says.
NATIONAL AIMS GUIDE
ALL SOCIAL MEASURES
Psychological Unemployment Is
Topic of Another Speech by
Massachusetts, Man.
By ], A. FOX.

BY ]. A. FOX.
Germanys policy OF providing
lob for every able-bodied man has
done much to advance the welfare OF
that country, George Seebauer, presl-
dent Of the German Board Of Efn-
cheney, today told the Seventh Inter-
national Management Congress.
Mr.. Seebauer is an engineer, and
the board he heads is a central ALL
thority for the investigation and ap-
plication of management measures IN
virtually all phases of German busi-
ness and industry. His speech was
delivered in German, then translated
Discussing broadly the line OF action
followed in Germany Mr.. Seebauer said
that economic measures cannot be
taken without regard to the working
class and that on the other hand So
cial measures are adopted only "as
they are economically bearable."
National Aims Regarded.
"All social and economic measures
are to be in accordance with the ma
tlonal aims" he continued. you Will
appreciate against this background
We thought it Of primary importance
to prevent the Nations most valuable
Asset-namely, the intellectual ana
manual working power OF its people
from lying dormant due to unemploy-
ment. BY adopting constructive
policy of providing and creating work
we succeeded in enormously stlmu-
lating economics. The fact that every
bodied worker is assured OF and
entitled to work has created most
valuable feeling of economic security
In another speech, Dr. Karl t.
Compton, president of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, told the dele
gates that while industry as a whole
has not been affected by technologlcal
unemployment, the individual IN
stances in which man has been re-
placed by machine have created serl-
GUS problem.
Il believe that two principles should
guide us in these matters" he said.
"Improved products and services should
be made available to the public and
not forcibly estopped to protect any
antrenched business or any group OF
worksrs who would be thrown out OF
work by the change, but with this pro-
yiso: The change should be made in
q manner to afford generous protection
to the workers affected by it. This Is
q definite job for management In
which efficiency should be tempered
nv humane considerations"
Methods Suggested.
Efficient employment agencies FOL
labor exchange, cooperation between
industries of community to synchro-
nize lay-offs in one industry with en-
ployment in another, pensions and un.
employment insurance were the meth.
ods DR.. Compton suggested.
The congress turned to todays pro-
gram after discussions yesterday in
which labor relations problems at home
and abroad figured largely.
Climaxing these was session last
night at which William Allen White
noted Kansas editor, scored policies
pursued by both capital and labor in
this country, and warned that I'VE all
must give little" If the Democratic
scheme of things is to be preserved.
The editor of the Emporia Gazette
spoke from the public" viewpoint
after the delegates had heard addresses
by Robert j. Watt, American workers
delegate to the International Labor
Office, a labor spokesman, and Lewis
n. Brown, president of the Johns
Manville Corp, representing business
Cancellation Scheme Told.
Branching then into the foreign
labor field, the congress heard r. Lloyc
Roberts, chief labor officer of tht
Imperial Chemical Industries of Grea
Britain, describe the scheme of indus
trial conciliation and arbitration IL
that country.
Mr.. White was vigorous in hi
Indictment of business for failure II
adopt inevitable reforms until the.
were forced, declaring they put int
the hands Of the most adroit politician
= America ever has seen the votes o
100000 men whom your Slipshot
social viewpoint rendered jobless."
: Business fought the 8-hour day
old-age pension and job insurance
and collective bargaining, the Kansal
said, and got, as result, "the c. I. @
and the labor racketeers, and the sit
down strike encouraged by smilin
and distinguished gentleman who hold
the ace card in the political game
His lightest word Of opprobrium TO
you interprisers large and small in hi
'''And all capitalists, big and little, mus
listen and like it when he runs tn
eamut OF invective against your kind.
dl Would Harmonize Labor.
Mr.. Watt told the congress that
solution to many problems was to b
found In viewing labor as a mas
movement Of individuals with the sam
sort Of hopes and feelings and need
as yourselves" He urged them, in tn
interest Of democratic institutions,
hasten the transition Of labor union
from "the trenches to state Of mutu
ally respectful partnership"
Labor, he explained, wants to /
recognized as "the partner of capit'
in production; as the customer {
capital In distribution; as the majorit
voice in a political democracy. and ,
the substantial center of our CON
! munity life"
/, Mr.. Brown expressed the view th'
Government will exercise an increa
ing voice in business, and that ther
fore the goal to be sought 'is wi
and Intelligent supervision which ali
rather than hampers business"
In describing the British machinel
for industrial peace Mr. Roberts sa
the fundamental philosophy in
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