The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 24, 1922, Page 11

al. SECTION sat | W Era for b Industry BY JOHN W. MELROY Employe of Philadelphia Rapid Tran- sit Company Just Elected to Its Board of Directors, PHILADELPHIA, March 24. am @ yardman in charge of materials and teams for Philadelphia Rapid| Transit construction work. I work! Peopie tell me I am the iirst work- man to be lifted out of the ranks to Membership in a corporation's board of directors. Tam glad, not because of personal Slory, but because I believe this marks a new era in the relations be- tween labor and capital. it is a great step forward. It opens! & wide avenue to the solution of the old laber-capital problem. To ary mind it sets an example that other | corporations — street cag lines. rail roads, industries—ought to follow. A few years ago the very idea of | an employe on the board of directors would have been called anarchistic. Today it is a reality. CO-OPERATION ON COMMITTEE For years, under the management of Thomas E. Mitten, the P. R. T.| has had cooperation between employ. er and employe in departmental com mittee meetings. Other companies have similar systems. I know how successful it is because, ax president Of the Cooperative Welfare axsocia tion, I have been one of labor's rep- Fesentatives in these meetings since 1919. But labor's actual membership in the board of directors is greater yet. I think it means the end of striked. It ix @ partnership. I believe this spirit of co-operation will spread once employers find what it means to them to have labor and capital closely bound together and working for the common interest Without {t they misunderstand each other. 009 WORKERS HAVE INTEREST IN COMPANY A few months ago our welfare as. Sociation bought 10.000 shares of stock in the P. R. T. for $240,000. Many of the men own shares indi vidually I own 10 shares myself. The «ssc ns stock div Director Sees Dawn of New The Seattle Star ‘HOOT MON | REPRESENTS 11,000 WORKERS | | delphia Rapid Transit: Co., his John W. McElroy, yardman elected a director of the Phila- wife and youngest of eight j children. He repre sents 11,000 workers on the board. 4 j wat fo into our fund for pensions | jand sick benefits, Eleven thousand of us have a definite financial inter jeat in the company. We are work | ing for ourselves ag well as for the| PrP. RT. And now, with my eleo | | tion, we have a hand In running tt My election is typical of Mr, Mit ten’s common sense policy. It was jhie idea to put a workman on the| |board. We didn’t ask for it He! didn't have to do It. He picked me, I suppose, because I was president of the welfare association I never dreamed of such an honor I call it a real honor, and I hope I will prove a eredit to the trust Nine years ago—when I was a day laborer for the P. FR. T., carrying ties at 17 cents an hour—I'd have laughed at anyone who told me 1 would one day be a director of the company ATTITUDE OF UNION LABOR I don't know what union tabor leaders will think of it. You know we have no union here. That is, we are not affiliated with the national street car men's union or the Amert can Federation of Labor. But we do not regard ourselves as non-union men. In our Co-Operative Welfare association we have a union that has turned out to be a mighty good one. |, I'll have no ax to grind as a direc tor. My sole idea tn to do my duty. I look upon myseif as first of all a representative of the men—and a stockholder afterward. I'm just a trustee for the employes. I'm a work ingman, not a plutocrat—and I'm not going to let this director business go to my head. Labor has a new deal, We're net |ting the pace, and I hope it will | mean something to labor everywhere. | (Copyright, 1922, by The Seattie Star) PUPTIA at the K bus night school completion of the wir chts of Cotum elebrate the r term Friday night with a dinne school, 916 FE. Marion st. ONE OF THE BEST COMEDIES OF THE SEASON’S SUCCESSES dance at the!» FORD'S OFFER IS UNDER FIRE ‘Engineer Says l U. S. Would; Be Subsidiary to Henry WASTIINGTON, March 24.— The government would become a “wub- {sidiary to the Ford interests” if the Ford offer for Muscle accepted, J. H. Levering, engineer of hoals were Loe Angeles, declared in a statement filed with the house military affairs committee Levering. formerty associated with Frederick E. Engstrum, one of the bidders for Muscle Shoals, attacked the Ford offer from every angie. “Ford makes his tender as a dear friend of the farmers, from whom he has acquired millions of dollars,” Levering said, “but should he get! possession of their fertilizer supply the farmers would reallee that Ford in the ‘dearest’ friend they ever had. as made a success of light (le construction, but when he the functions of congres hin peace ship across the just the rights of nations he made the United States look is. prudent, weak and ridiculous.” He added Ford's success in the automobile industry does not prove he would make a success at Muscle Shoals. New Trade Control Director Accepts OLYMPTA, March 24.—W. J. Hays, Yakima fruit merchant, has aceept ed 4 ent as director of the stat * control department BE. Skaggs, who re SEATTLE, WAS i, FRIDAY, ORKER IS ELECTED T0_ RAIL MANAGER BOARD S WARNS AGAINST. 4-POWER PACT Seattle Attorney Writes Let- ter to Senators | James R. Chambers, an attorney, with offices in the Leary building has sent « letter to every member of the United States senate to warn against the four-power treaty, The letter fs a voluminous document, but the main it voloea may be summed up as “The preamble « that it is with a view vation of the maintenance the four r rights in tion to their insular poser | sions and dominions in the regions of the Pa Then it is stated that we must rempect thelr rights in the regions of the Pacific. ‘That clause, both direetly and indirectly, binds the United States to respect and fix the status of all the claims, just or un just, of Japan, Great Britain and France thruout the entire region of the Pacific, It lends the strength of our fairness, magnanimity and ju» tos to the dirty grabs, aggremions and oppreasions of thene imperialistic countries. ARBITRATION TO BE COMPULSORY “Then the next section of the treaty provides that in the event of the development between any parties to the treaty of a controvermy ‘aris ing out of any Pacific question and involving their eaid * and the same cannot be nett diplomacy Jand in likely to affect the peaceful long between the countries, then “they shall invite the high contract Ing parties to a joint conference, to © eubject will be re. ration and adjust. ment’ This provision is an absolute agreem| for compulsory arbitra tion, to be determined by the vote of the parties to the treaty, and which will be absolutely binding upon the United States, Can you imagine the United States submitting to a vote of Great Britain and Japan and France any question affecting the interests of our republic in the Pacific? Why it would be a foregone conclusion that the vote would be against u» every time. “It ts next provided tn this treaty that If any of the rights In the Pa cific of the parties to the treaty are threatened by the agereanive action other power, ‘the high con = nhall communicate ther fully and frankly in order to arrive at an understand ing of the most efficient measures tb be taken jointly and separately to meet the exigenci¢w of the situation. , Hughes says: “This is not an ance; it Ia perfectly clear and calle for no use of force by the United States.’ I say Hughes is atating « falsehood. Any amociation of na |tions together for the purpose of meeting situations to occur in the fu ture is an alliance.” Motorist Blinded, Aged Woman Killed | TACOMA, March 24.—Strnek down by an automobile, Mra. W. N. Wright, 80, died at her home shortly after ward. The automobile wan driven by J. D. Crib who declared he the aged woman until ¢ had struck her. Bright rom a gasoline station blinded Ne maid. | eneral pes | . a | | BR. B. VLADEK IN SEATTLE R. B, Viadek, Jewish author, lec |turer and critic, who is making a lecture tour in the United States, will visit Seattle on March 29. Mr Viadek is writing under the pen name of §. Nigger in many Jewish publications. j AUBURN.—Joe Snohomish, be Heved to be oldest Indian on Muckel shoot reservation, buried PAGES 11 TO 20 TWEEDS We are now showing for the first time the fruits‘of our buyer’s personal selections in New York and other great clothing centers. Beautiful fabrics fashioned faultlessly and embodying hand tailoring, trimmings, etc., that place them far above the ordinary ready-to-wear gar- ments. “Hoot Mon” Tweeds in Sport models in abund- ance, and the more conservative styles for business peo- ple. Also a wide selection in fine quality “Bankers’” Worsteds—the same kind and quality you bought before the war and which helped to make Lundquist-Lilly famous for values. 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