Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-09-27
It's News
To Me
By O. ]. Pecord

II industrial managemens treated their with the
degree stupidity with which of them handle their
labor both and the country woA banrupt
Corporations all over this land spend millions of dollars en-
blowing pictorial describe their products They
spend other millions employing public relations experts who
supposed to create public good endness toward the
corporations And they hire little jerk whose prnci
pal task to obsuct the workers. to constantly refuse to meet
even their most reasonable nights try
ing figure out of irritating the workers and their
leaders.
print reprint He isn't good rubber stamp for the big
whom he If his intelligence equal to that
of the average boy wouldn't try do than
present devious biased and reaconary thinking of the big
shot
Many experts" outdo their bosses in their
anxiety prove worth the corporations These nteec
fns to whom the workers dumb stupid cattle
weight fly the corporations for
many of them offensive and irritating that long
after they go back to work pushing pencil in some poll
relations for the mistakes they made when they top
dogs.
SCIENTIFIC
Today science is the wachword industry All the big
corporations aside money research to
improve their product increase production methods
create demand for their product by advertising campaigns
But when to question OF human relations In dealing
with their workers, science is thrown out the window
upon approach which large corpora.
their alleged labor relations experts dealing with
labor the parade passed them by and left
They may find themselves hguatvey speaking In
the position the Tishman who following the hearse
in funeral procession show grief
then looked find that the heare had him and
he was following garbage wagon.
Labor relations is in last analysis nothing less than
special branch of human relations But the labor relations Tex
pert bypassing scientific knowledge ignoring
worker psychology, ampng rough shod the most
elementary feelings of human beings rshes heaong to do
his job and well deserved increase in his pay
If management bright in dealing with its workers
socaed labor problems is of its
activities would fire about twohirds nks
employs experts" and get high school graduate
whose father works for his living.
management really smart and well balanced 1t would
quit taking of well educated gentlemen speak pro-
per English and know how finger hire some
that when you call dirty him in post
eror he dirty overals that he going
voked.
II management would quit telling labor relations
perts how to do their jobs and let the expert"
conduct itself in its dealings with would help
The only thing standing the of this because
most of industry has not is
willing to meet 1916 workers with mentality Manage
ment Is trying drive seamined 1907 engine
Advice like this coming from an honest
expert would them thousands and they
value It, because they would regard it opinion
coming from labor writer they will regard as biased
the spteful rantings of a labor screwball
Regardless of what anyone thinks even Mr. Cunningham,
time will that industrial labor relations
still In the horse and buggy days high
complicated and seamined productive system industry
usual resen the truth hoty denies the charges and then
Gates their already complicated relations y being every
thing that Is the opposite of what he should be-
When industrial management out of the coma which
has had 1t in tow for 1t will bring its human
aons problems the scientific common sense attitude
with which has tackled its chemical mechanical and dsrb
uon problems Let us hope the awakening will not be too late
In coming. =