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ROCKEFELLER PLAN
ONLY PARTIAL SUCCESS
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—The Rocke
feller plan of employes’ representa
tion, which was introduced in the
mines of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company immediately following the
famous strike in 1823 and which has
I since been adopted in hundreds of
other plants has proved to be oniy
a partial success, according to a pre
! liminary report made public today by
the Russell Sage Foundation, which
since 1919 has been studying the op
eration of this and other plans for
giving wage.earners a share in the
management of industry. The full
jreport covering five hundred pages,
will be issued within the next month.
In making the report pubii?, Mary
Van Kleeck, Director of the Founda
tion's Department of Industrial Stud
j ies, said it has a three-fold signifi
cance for industry generally and for
the country at large; it reveals the
underlying causes of the perennial
controversy between coal miners and
mine operators; it is the first impar
tial appraisal of the most prominent
experment in employes’ represen'a
tion--an experiment which was the
forerunner of the shop committees,
works councils, and similar projects
introduced in about one thousand
companies within recent years in an
effort to solve labor difficulties; it
points the way to a termination of
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If you do you can pick favorable areas for prospect
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Would you like to be able to assay your ore for gold
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Will not these aids better your chances of putting a
new mine on the map in Alaska?
TUITION IS FREE
This is the nature of the work the prospector takes up
in the Mining Short Course at the Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines.
The first short course of 10 weeks duration begins No
vember 3rd. The work is repeated in another short
course beginning February 2nd.
The charge for books and supplies used, totals about
$25,00 for the complete course.
Work is offered in geology, mineralogy, mining meth
ods, ore dressing, and fire assaying.
There are no educational requirements except the abil
ity to read and write.
This is not a dressed-up course. Bring along your wool
shirt and overalls. You will need them.
- CHARLES E. BUNNELL
President. „
the conflict between the employers
interested in employes’ representa
tion plans and organized labor which
has thus far bitterly opposed such
plans in the belief that they set up
“company unions” designed to replace
labor unions.
The industrial representation plan
was developed by W. L. Mackenzie
King, now Premier of Canada, at the
request of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
the report says, and was introduced
at the mines of the company by Mr.
Rockefeller. At each mine two or
more representatives are elected by
the members to serve for one year.
These representatives from ail the
branches of the company meet period
ically with an equal number of com
pany officials. At these conferenc
es any matter which employes desire
to have discussed can be brought up.
There are also in each mining dis
trict joint committees composed of
equal numbers of employes’ represen.
tatives and company officials to con
sider:
1. Safety and accidents.
2. Sanatation, health and housing.
3. Recreation and education.
4. Industrial cooperation and con
ciliation.
The report says that as a result of
this plan, working and living condi
tions are more wholesome and hap
py for the miners and their families,
but that the miners are not satisfied
that their representatives have the
power to protect them in decisions
regarding wages and other condi
tions of work.
“Employes’ representation, as prac
tised in the mines of this company.”
Miss Van Kleek said, “works a revo
lution in remedying the outstanding
grievances of an earlier decade, but
—limited as it is to conference, con
cerned primarily with adjustment of
grievances, and failing to take cog
nizance of organized labor it does not
develop leadership or stimulate in
terest among the wage-earners. The
lesson for industry generally in the
experience of this company is that
giving workmen a voice in the man.
agement of industry is decidedly a
step toward permanent industrial
of success to be attained by an em
ployes’ representation plan depends
on the sincerity and intelligence with
peace and efficiency, but the measure
which the plan is carried out by fore
men, superintendents and higher ad
ministrative officials.”
The report points out that at the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company the
employes’ representatives are men
; who work in the mines and who do
I not feel free to act in opposition to
| the company’s interest in defense of
fellow employes; that employes are
[not making full use of the plan even
I for the presentation of grievances:
j that in actual practice the employes’
j representatives have no share in de
cisions concerning reported griev
ances; that the issue of trade union
ism versus employes’ representation
is kept constantly alive by the com
jpany’s refusal to permit union meet
ings in any building in the camps
owned by the company, by other fre
quent instances of antagonism to the
unions and by the company’s policy
of accepting the wage scale of its
competitors which has actually been
set by unionized companies through
negotiations with the United Mine
Workers, while refusing to deal in
any way with the miners’ union.
The report credits the company
with much more liberal attitude to
ward unionism since the employes’
representation plan was introduced,
but adds that a conflict is in exis
tence in Colorado between employes’
representation and trade unionism,
which must be dealt with before any
plan can be made to work satifac.
torily. “Exponents of employes’ repre
sentation in a highly unionized indus
try like bituminous coal,” in the opin
ion of Miss Van Kleeck, “must recog
ize that question of wages and hours
should be settled by agreements which
are not limited to a single company
but include the industry as a whole
if the idea of labor’s partnership is
to be made practical.”
“There is in this situation,” de
clare the Foundation’s investigators,
“an opportunity for a piece of con
structive statesmanship on the part
of Mr. Rockefeller and his associates
which will have widespread influence
upon the further development of em
ployes’ representation in industry gen
erally throughout the country. This
>is nothing less than to undertake the
task which he himself predicted
would be necessary for the ultimate
development of employes’ representa
tion, nr jly, to devise some method
of extending it to include all com
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DAKAR, French West Africa, Feb.
4.—An airplane flown by two French
army officers left Etamps, France, yes
terday, and completed a non-stop
flight to this place at 1) today.
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USED BY PUBLIC IN LONDON
LONDON, Feb. 5.—The Princes
Golf Club,'once one of the most ex
clusive in the London district, has
been converted into a public course.
For the equivalent of thirty-five cents
a round, anyone may play there.
Princes at one time was the favor
ite goll resort of Bonar Law, Balfour
and other outstanding statesmen.
Representing the public, Ramsay
MacDonald accepted the deeds and
title to the course from Sir H. Mal
laby-Deeley, who spent more than
$200,000 on the property before giv
ing it away.
The former prime minister said he
was first initiated into the myster
ies of golf by the eminent divine of
the Established Church of Scotland
who told him the game was fine dici
plino in self control.
“Forty years ago,” Mr. MacDonald
said, “golf was a cheap game. I
helped to make my own clubs and
the game cost me sixpence a year.
The game has got far to expensive.
It ought to get back to its old posi
tion as a first class workingman’s
game.”
panies in an industry, and through
conference to determine what part la
bor organizations and employes’ as.
sociations can best take in such a
plan.”
The concluding chapter of the re
port says: “This particular plan has
had so much publicity and has been
copied so widely that it presents
definitely a challenge to the trade
union movement; it must be consid
ered by the unions on its merits, and
not ruthlessly condemned as their
natural enemy. The United Mine
Workers openly and bitterly denounce
the Rockefeller plan. The Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, in the words
of its general manager, sees numer
ous good reasons for not signing a
contract with the union. No fruit
ful discussion between these two
g:oups would be possible unless each
approaches it with the will not to
press the solution of its own group
‘or acceptance, but rathei to think
first of the needs of the men in the
mines and then to work out the agree
ment which will best meet those hu
man needs. From this would fol
low, we are confident, a spirit and
method of managing the industry
which would better* serve also the
public interest.”
i he report, entitled Employes
Representation in Coal Mines,” was
prepared by Een M. Selekman of the
Sage Foundation’s Department of In- j
dustrial Studies, and Miss Van Kleeck
both of whom spent considerable
time in the many mines and camps
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany, and had repeated conferences
with individual miners, groups of
miners, mine foremen, superintend
ents, officials of the company, and
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the princi
pal stockholder. The operation of
the industrial representation plan in
the steel mills of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company was made the sub
ject of a separate investigation by
the Foundation, and the report of
this study, which is to be issued very
shortly, shows that the company has
been in advance of other companies
in the steel industry in its dealings
with employes.
The investigation of the Rockefel
ler plan for giving wage-earners a
share in management was undertak
en by the Russell Sage Foundation on
the suggestion of a group of engin
eers, social workers, government of
ficials, employers, and representa
tives of labor, whose advice had been
sought as to how the Foundation
could most effectively contribute to
ward the improvement of human re
lationship in industry.
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DRY LAW FUNDS ILLEGAL
MONTESANO, Wn„ Feb. 4.—Auto
mobiles, even though for the exclu
sive use of the dry squad, may not be
purchased out of the dry law enforce
ment fund, according to a decision of
Judge Abel in the case of E. W. Pico
vs. Arthur E. Graham, prosecuting at
torney.
Pico had sold a car to Sheriff Elmer
L. Gibson with the consent of the
county commissioners, the understand
ing being that it was to be paid for
out of the fund in question and the
car was to be used in collecting evi
dence in liquor cases. The prosecutor
refused to approve the voucher and
Picco tried to force payment. The de
cision refused the writ of mandamus
and said the car should be paid for
out of the general fund.
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