Evening star., 1948-09-13
First Report on Cause
'0f Labor Peace Halls
Pacific Pulp Industry
By the Assoeioied Press

A group of industry officials,
labor leaders and college professors
today sought to turn the country's
attention to industrial peace meth
DDS.
| The National Planning Associa-
ton issued the first report in its
100000 study of 'the causes of
industrial peace under collective
bargaining"
This report describes IA years Of
practically strike-free labor rela-
tions in the Pacific Coast pulp and
paper industry, with special atten-
ton to the largest company, the
Crown Zellerbach Corp.
| About IA other reports will follow,
about once month, describing
labor relations at large companies
in the glass, steel. mems clothing,
chemical, food, textile, and aircraft
industries.
Lists Reasons for Harmony.
Today's 72-page report gives many
reasons for the harmony at Crown
zellerbach and the other pulp and
paper mills in Washington, Oregon,
and California. Among the chief
factors are:
/. Industry wide bargaining. The
companies deal centrally with the
two unions and one contract governs
them all The unions, which cooper
ate closely with each other, are
the AFL Pulp, Sulphite g. Paper
Mill Workers and the AFL Brother
hood of Papermakers. The report
says industry-wide bargaining does
not necessarily aid industrial peace,
but in this case it does.
2. The companies fully accepted
the unions from the start And the
unions, which were mature and ex-
perfenced before they entered these
mills in 1898, used tact and persua-
sion at the start. There was no
period of bitter fighting over union
recognition.
Private Ownership Accepted.
8. The unions fully accept private
ownership and operation. Neither
side fears that the opposite party
seeks its extinction. Both parties
show patience and tolerance. Top
men on both sides do the bargain
ing; lawyers are barred.
4, The companies pursue an "ac-
tive striving" to make collective bar
gaining work. They consult their
foremen, union stewards and union
committees on wide range Of plant
problems. Their personnel prac-
tices are highly developed but not
"paternalistic."
5. "Environmental conditions" in
the industry are favorable to peace.
For example, the industry has stead
lily expanded; the work force COM
posed mainly of people with similar
backgrounds and experiences, and
the plants offer interesting jobs
which require responsibility and
skill.
Social Skilp' Essential.
The report said these conditions
permit" industrial peace, but do
not assure" it. 1t is essential, 1t
said, that both sides possess "a
high degree of social skill"
The report was prepared by DR..
Clark Kerr and Roger Randall OF
the University of California, and
was reviewed and Endorsed by a
committee of the NPA.
The National Planning Associa-
ton is private, .nonpolitical, nom
profit organization of leaders from
industry, labor, agriculture and unf~
versities, with headquarters here. :
| The head of its 29-member come
mittee "On the Causes of Indus
trial Peace" is Clinton S, Golden,
formerly with the CIO Steelworkers'
uniony now labor advisor to- the
fEeo1omic Cooperation Adniinfstra-
ition. X ~ 4
The co-directors of the study are
Joseph N. Scanlon of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology
ana Charles r. Walker of Yale.
On the committee are six man.
agement leaders, six labor leaders
and II men connected with colleges.
Most of the money for the indusI
trial peace study was donated by
John Hay Whitney. New York
financier. He gave sec, 1000.