Common Sense in Labor ManagementHarper, 1919 - 217 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 79 - One means of preventing a narrow and exclusive solidarity of wage-earners is greater identification on their part with the community through the acquisition of local property. Mobility Is, in the earlier stages of the development of the wage-earner, the source of his strength. He can easily change to his Interest. No advantage can be taken of his fixity. He can put himself without loss into the open market. He can avail himself at once of the highest market price, provided his change of place does...
الصفحة 166 - In our own business, employing thousands of persons, — some of them newly arrived immigrants, some of them in opposition to the wage system, hostile to employers as a class, — we have observed astonishing changes in their attitude during three years under the influence of our labor arrangements. They seem to understand that they can rely upon promises made to them by the company ; that all disputes will be finally adjusted according to just principles interpreted by wise arbitrators.
الصفحة 18 - The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man, but to depend upon the counsel of all.
الصفحة 167 - ... just because he passes down the street from his home to his office. His business raid into his rival's market has the same nai-ve charm that tickled the heart of his remote ancestor when in the night he rushed the herds of a near-by clan. A manufacturer tries to tell a conventional world that he resists the closed shop because it is un-American, loses him money, or is inefficient.
الصفحة 172 - In the first place, every advance that trade-unionism tries to make in behalf of the wage-earner as such finds a natural limit. The principle of exclusiveness, of separate advantage, is a limited principle. At a given point, now here, now there, it is sure to react upon itself, or to be turned back. Organization meets opposing organization. Public interests become involved. Moral issues are raised. The co-operating sympathy of men, which can always be counted upon in any fair appeal to it, turns...
الصفحة 172 - But trade-unionism at its best must do its work within two clear limitations. In the first place, every advance which it tries to make in behalf of the wageearner as such finds a natural limit. The principle of exclusiveness, of separate advantage, is a limited principle. At a given point, now here, now there, it is sure to react upon itself or to be turned back. Organization meets opposing organization. Public interests become involved. Moral issues are raised.
الصفحة 207 - There shall be no discrimination under this plan against any employee because of race, sex, political or religious affiliation, or membership in any labor or other organization.
الصفحة 207 - Representative shall be free to discharge his duties in an independent manner, without fear that his individual relations with the Company may be affected in the least degree by any action taken by him in good faith in his representative capacity.
الصفحة 132 - To be mentally active, to do something, is instinctively satisfying. Much of invention springs costless from a mind thinking for the sheer joy of it. Organization, plans in industry, schemes for market extension, visions of ways to power, all agitate neurones in the brain ready and anxious to give issue in thought. A duty of the environment is not only to allow, but to encourage, states in which meditation naturally occurs. 7.
الصفحة 29 - A director elected by the employees shall have the same rights and powers and shall be subject to the same duties and responsibilities as a director elected by the stockholders.