The evening world. Newspaper, October 2, 1919, Page 26

SS Z—- Che World, ng ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. @wdiished Daily Except Sunday by the Frese Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to PU! BR, Presid 63 Park Row, SATUS BIEAW reaasren 6 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER,’ Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, : Pe Re Nae ey ee Rr EAR y hel WOLUME 60... ..scsccecseseeeseerccseesseeessNO, 21,226 STRIKES, STRIKES, STRIKES. N New York alone, according to the records of the State Industrial -Commission’s Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, there are now pending seven strikes involving 46,400 workers and 811 shops. A strike of shipyard workers affecting at least 20,000 men still threatens. Upward of four thousand pressmen were locked out of printing More and more is it impressed upon the country as the most THURSDAY, EDITORIAL PAGE OCTOBER 2, 1919 To the Last Nickel! aXe en each By J. H. Cassel ring oy Y Byte) toe yur The Up-to-Date ' Business Employer Personnel Work in the Financial, the Production and the Distribution Divisions of the Average Industrial Concern To-Day Makes for Perfect Harmony Between Employer and Workingmen. By Prof. Edward K. Strong (Prof. Btrong, who is in charge of Vocational Education at the Carnesia Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Prol. John B. Coss, in charge of the Persunnel Management Courses of the Columbia University, New York, and Prof. R. M. Maclver of the University of Toronto, Canada, garr a serivs of lectures in employment management last month to Canadian employment managers under the direction of the University of Toronto. At the request of The Evening World Profs. Strong and Coss prepared a condensation of their lectures for this paper. These articles should prove equally voiuable A : . , ‘ tain 5 to American employers of labor and the workingmen, Prof. Coss's articie | x establishments in New York yesterday in anticipation of a strike appeared Sept. 30. Another article by Prof. Strong will appear at a later Hi “ forced by the demands of radical local unions who refuse to stand by date.) a the schedules and contracts of the International Printing Pressmen y. and Assistants’ Union. " by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York frening World). 1 Iti a nab id dd ite th ey h t HREE divisions are apparent in the organization of the average in- rag is a rare day now that does not add its thousands to the mount- dustrial concern today. The first deals with financial problems; i ns ing total of those who slacken national production and put obstacles the second with production—the conversion of raw material into ‘ se im the way of national prosperity by a reckless determination to force the finished product; and the third with distribution—advertising and 4 high wages higher still at whatever ultimate cost. selling. A vice-president or general manager heads each such selling division and is in intimate contact with the president of the company. " $ ‘ During the last few years the positio i : significant thing about these current strikes that hardly one of them been established. His duties vary scanty ‘wie cuitieear eombainn } H is im any sense the outcome of suffering. There are no haggard wives ranging from a record clerk to a real director of the company's policy . ia or hungry children. The pay some of these strikers have been getting toward labor. Generally, bis position on the organization chart is two, oh sounds well-nigh unbelievable to less fortunate workers. Judge Gary three, or four levels below that of the production manager. He does not ‘ a ified yesterday before the Senate committee investigating the steel have ready acess to the president of the company aor even to the pro- re , |luck stories, nor by the personal at- ¢ mot good. They strike because somebody has persuaded them they psig sana hell pret pitecrigas (4 tractions of the bppileadt For * 4 ¢an get more. What the extraordinary emergency and need of war result maximum production at pe bees renee basis ls unfair to the ‘ 4 did to boost wages is now seized upon by professional labor agitators Bd aed he le cost us WERE tothe brace io ae ip rape 4 . # and leaders as proof that there is no limit to what labor can grab Panahip bersibed ihe vontpany placed in a job for which he is not a provided it grabs boldly and hard. and its employees has been stable | Well fitted and so prevented from strike that steel workers average $6.27 a day in all the United States Steel Corporation plants. Rollers make as much as $32.56 a day. Unskilled workers average $5 a day. Boys who open doors get $3 & day! As in the steel strike so in most other present strikes. The men do not even pretend they strike because their present pay is - This is no capitalists’ explanation of what is happening. It is what the steadier, soberer element of organized labor itself recognizes a the chief cause of many current strikes. It is what is causing this self-respecting, patriotic part of organized labor deep comeern as to the permanence of its power and control. What does the International Pressmen's Union—which stands by the wage schedule it declared effective until 1921—say about the radical unions who have forced the lockout in the printing trade: . “The leadership of certain local printing trades unions, committed as it is to a complete censorship of all publications and other Bolshevist principles, including Soviet management of the printing industry, is of such character as to prohibit any co-operation and encouragement to the policies they have ’ outlined.” If the whole truth were known, what would be found to be the Peal attitude of Samuel Gompers and the Gompers element in the American Federation of Labor toward the activities of John Fitz- patrick and William Z. Foster, who have set out to put their radical stamp and seal on the Federation by using impressionable foreign workers in the steel trade to disrupt and seize the industry? The demands of the radical labor element have reached a point where they cannot go further without wrecking the very age! The Love Stories Of Great Novels Gay Life of a Commuter By Rube Towner Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) duction manager, and consequently is not in touch with the broader aspects of the company’s policies nor in the development of new ones. His duty is to obtain the most satisfactory relationship between the com: pany and its employees without challenging existing company policies or raising the possibility of profound changes therein for the future. Maximam Production at Lowest Cost, ~~~ And he must not be swayed by hard al held up by most com- advancing as he might if in a posi- tion more in accord with bis ability and temperament, The Educational Director, The educational director, on the other hand, must have genuine sympathy and interest in the per- sonal advancement of the em- ployees. Otherwise he will not stimulate them to their best work. And he must be also int acquainted with the deta jobs within the plant and know how best to teach men of all sorts jobs in the most the management has devoted its energies to other problems than that of personnel. And when some labor difficulty has arisen, as a strike, the management has con- cerned itself with employment matters only to the extent of again establishing a stable work- ing force. “Production” summed up the company's aim in all its negotiations. In the last few years, and particu- larly since our entry into the war, many far-sighted business men have come to realize that something was fundamentally wrong in this laisse! faire attitude. It is not sufficient | jer, in charge of morale The official that labor difficulties are patched up Must also be possessed of genuine once they have arisen, Such difficul- Sympathy and plenty of common ties should be anticipated and pre- ese. He needs know little of educa- vented from coming to a head. This | tional methods but should be well ac- means that some one within the com- | @Uainted with the best methods of pany who is in touch with the broad social service work. His duties are policies of the company must be de- | two-fold. First of all he must handle voting his attention to personnel|4!l the exceptional cases that arise problems. Moreover, it means that which affect an employee's usefulness, such an official must have the aa-, Such as, sickness of the employee oF : ° yi . | of his family, ef neies of Doc. as a Defender of the Liberty of the Press. | thority to question any accepted pol- of his family, lnaacial d\mouiies, a= ; iy which may be ths cause 6 : production upon which labor depends for its due. Copyright, 1919, by Tho Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), I ATO one ever accused Doc, the | paper until the philosopher's goat was i adaeestiieed htles test, | street-car strikes, and the like. And Wages cannot be paid out of starved business and strangled philosopher of the Paradise}running around in circles and bleat- seennd D0 Mik: be over. wacehiel Ge 88 and strangle enterprise. By Albert Payson Terhune bunch, of being a “tight-wad.” On the contrary, Doc's idea of money ity like an anti-league Senator. Then the adroit mind of Doc re- The Personnel Manager. ;eliminate annoying circumstances hg 1 py DE In consequence, there has appeared within the organization, to m ts A woman went to one of the great department stores of this city No, 2—JANE EYRE; by Charlotte Bronte. is to regurd a dollar bill as @ leaf}sorted to strategy. It was just the! within the last few months in sev-| healthful conditions, to Wales ee as the. other day to order furniture. To her amazement the manager ANE EYRE was little and homely and quiet. Underneath ]and himself as the owner of un-|same as a meeting of the General| era) companies a personnel manager | employees to establish within and of the department said: “All the furniture we have are the you tee before you, Our storehouses are emptied. behind. Production hus ceased.” Is this presently to epitomize the country? samples here is nothir a The Evening World in a recent issue criticized Magistrate Sweetser for discharging a man brought before him on the night of Sept. 15 charged with knocking off another man's straw tat. The criticism assumed that the Magistrate intended by his decision to sanction the practice of playfully knocking and a magnetism that attracted more than one man. livelihood. cured the job for herself. She knew almost nothing of men, her plain exterior she had a strong and fearless soul Being penniless and without family, she took the first position she could find which promised her a bare Hearing that a widower named Rochester desired a governess for his motherless child, Jane 8€- Volunteer for either role. His motto bounded forests, So liberal and gen- erous is he that he will divide his last cigarette with a friend, But, like all Americans, he resents being im- posed upon. He may become the sucker or the goat, but he will not is, “Pay AS you enter,” and if the % So perhaps she occasion demands it he will cheer- failed to realize that Rochester was different from most of his fellows, He fully pay to get out, He has a par- | lived in a great barn of a house in a desolate region, seeing little company | Meulur antipathy to the ringer in, | and hated by many of his neighbors. the third person who makes a couple He was an unkempt brute of a man, rough of speech, violent of temper, | crowd, the individual who is looking for the quid but has no quo, Staff at G, H. Q. Far into the night Doe labored at his bungalow clipping heads from murder stories in papers a week old and carefully pasting them on meeting of civic reform organiza- Uons, cutting the head from one of Mayor Hylan's reading and camouflag- ing it over a spoken address by Lloyd George in the House of Commons; a story that began by describing the assembly and purpose of a religious conference wound up with a descrip- tion of a ball game, and the main Paragraphs of a speech by Senator on @ par with the three managers 2 withgut the plant recreational facili+ finance, production and distribution. | ties of varied sorts and to maintain In consequence, the production man- | an attitude of respect and confidence ager no longer {8 to have complete| toward the management, Much of authority over his employees. Also| the welfare work of the past has that many eMciency methods will! peen good and well-intended, But in now be open to the challenge that,| many cases it has aroused antipathy although they do increase production | instead of confidence because of the temporarily, they lead inevitably to! methods employed. Too often it has discontent and trouble and to a de-| been actually nothing but a stop-gap crease of production when measured! on the part of the management to in terms of years instead of hours. | head off a more serious situation, ‘This division of the field so long! Empjoyees have seen through such held by the production manager is, | | Straw hats from the heads of persons who wear them out of subject to ungovernable rages—at best morose and sullen and secretiye. | devices and naturally have resented ¢ a Borah conclude o ter all, @ most natural one. For! the motive: a N season, Magistrate Sweetser says this assumption was not Other people were afraid of Rochester, Jane was not. She was afraid Of| Like al! temperamental persons, | | Abi vg nalpess with the details of Sven ee eeonionis teh dase lease [eis eer ene sere Ss, Justified, inasmuch as he discharged tho prisoner { nothing—not even of a mysterious something or somebody that was kept | Doc has a highly nervous organism, : ree Huger a Oe Mla uture, to a for lack of identificati PEISORAr in Guesiton shich Rochester visited by | Ut has it so completely at command| The next morning, three stations | struction and production of mates be permanent, will needs be carried * for lack of identification and would have imposed a fine if, in locked in an upper room of the house, a room whic that he never files off the handle. | from New York, Doc chucked his pa-|Tials is specialized under an expert éut with much greater forethought ; ne i the charge had been proven beyond a reasonable stealth and from which issued strange noises. When a person on the Paradise lino| Per carelessly aside and changed his|in the fleld of physical sclences,) and possibly will be largely devoted jou! Rochester Was One night as Jano lay half asleep she fancied she saw a hideous hag- | like face peering down at her, Another night} | she heard a guest of Rochester's screaming for eads Doc's newspaper over his | shoulder, for instance, he does not |fly into a passion, but resorts to seat where he could wateh his victim. He had put the “bunch” wise and whereas the establishment of proper working conditions, the development so they watched the “cootle," as Dec| of personnel through training and to aiding employees in securing for themselves much needed reforms in | housing conditions, schooling facili- Letters From the People help. But, having no gerves and needing her| strategy and calmly proceeds to read | Called him, crawl up and down the| the maintenan¢e of an enthusiastic |ties, recreational, advantages, &e, ‘Traction “Service.” train held there for an emergency stom 10M SARE OEE ERR RUEDARSE Uhas tO cae sDiegeaTing eruaseoent | aimee sl di hag ae ul f I bees of aheh's pers ‘Fo the itor of The Evening World: j#Uch as existed last night, 5 Ft 4 Moreover, she found, to her surprise, that} Despite all his philosophy it is easy | dou! Pe finally consternation, pr the Lopate J ries posers sonnel organization will be to mares 5 wish to state that I ain notlirain tere at 6.40 another pulled H "| she was falling in love with Rochester, Also, Rochester was falling in| to “get his goat,” but the person who| the.first time in months he left Doc's | master the applications of the secure better workmen, not, as in BA ever-ready letter writer request-| 6.45, In the mean time the station had | love with her—perhaps because she was the only person who did not fear| undertakes to purloin Doc's well- par yee he found it when he left “ee a die’ tandancian witain ie rz i i cure better work. fas space in the dally papers for My \pecome jammed with people who had | him in his blackest moods. Boon sapricornuy area uMarentions.| 7 a Lon eee Nit tnd Cae ent » Spinions or grievances. This is the} first letter 1 have sent to a daily} departments, of a ally, has got about as pleasant and successful a time ahead of him as a But the next morning the news-|these new personnel trivial and academic. But it is paper cadger was on the Job, and as| coupled with considerations pot hed an opportunity to board a most profound and will revolu. It was an odd wooing, a courtship devoid of all the graces that are train from 5.85 o'clock, This second such affairs. Rochester—masterful and rough—- supposed to accompany A oh vould undertake offhand, to| Doc could not sit up until 1 o’slock |More or tess theoretical nature, forces tionize present method. Em- paper. I am writing it in behalf of) (rain was insta s : ae (| man who woul Pp o’oloc! é 4 m SUITE shin toliow pattorere woo are cos was instantly files doors shut} was no Romeo. But neither was practical and level-headed Jane another] settig the Flume question in a mixed| every morning re-editing the news,|the conclusion that such @ departs ploying a man to get certain work abject to the same indignities and| when s # e'cloek | syiiet crowd. the “profiteer” grabbed the paper and, ment will ordinarily be sub-divide done means that the manatement nal was given to leave, At Lstetall | $,08 o'clock the third train pulled in. At this time the extra train on the opposite side was made up and I suc- ceeded in boarding it at 6,04 o'clock. 1 was compelled to wait thirty min- utes before I succeeded in boarding a She brought out all that was best in the man, and she learned to re- spond to his strange, intense lovemaking. The two became engaged. The wedding day arrived. Then, just as Jane and Rochester were about to be married, the bride- groom's life-secret was brought to light. He already had a wife living. Years, earlier he had married a woman who was utterly unsuited to him in every way and with whom he had been wretchedly unhappy. After the gros, indifference of the officials in Gharye of the B. R. T. system, Un- fortunately 1 am compelled to travel on the B. R. T. system. I live in 4 Ridge, using the Bay Ridge line of the Fourth Avenue subway, We read with evident relish, |into three parts, @ d to the Doc's next move wa# a piece of, lection and promotion of employees, strategy worthy of a Foch or aj to their training and to problems of Pershing. He got a paper one year | morale, Few men are naturally en- old, with a date corresponding to the dowed with the temperament and day of his coup d'etat and by simply experience needed to handle more For a long time it has been Doc's custom to read his favorite news, paper at home, and then buy the op- position paper to read on the train in order to put himself in an agres- sive frame of mind for, the day's interested in the work, not the man. The employ: . that this is so and naturally takes no interest in the com- pany. When, however, the aim is to enable employees to ad- pa e F ich sub-division, The em- enjoy reasonatly go’ * service duing|tvain, The B, R. T. is running |itth of thelr child his wife had lost her mind, becoming a dangerous lunatic. | work. peating tan new date lines on the old than one sch 8 iver dale ior vance and benefit from their tte icics (eat the saps |traine on this 1 5 waning Rochester hac fitted up a room for her in the top story of his house| ~ he opposition paper he has always| P&Per he produced a marvelous piece! ployment man must needs be exetess is 6 ves mail ‘the morning 01 hed ia Madar is dine during business : and had hired a nurse to look after the maniag.| gogseq aside in his seat as he neared | °f journalism, cold-blooded attitude toward the eM-| then the employee will inevitably vice curing 4: evenings, between five] rush houry on w 15 to 20 minute head-| fig Wife a He had let people suppose him a widower. His| tye ew Yorke terminal The paper grabber, reassured py ployees. He must decide whether @| seq that his own success is de- ‘and cix o'citck is atrociously bad. It|Way, not more than four trains per 4 5 i-law had come to see the luckless 2 a yee his late experience, took it u; particular applicant is fitted or not) pendent upon the success of his ta against this I wish to protest. Your|hour, Such service is un outrage, | Raving Maniac. ) and she had attacked him. It was this} Recemtly he noticed that @ person) Uf lo Sin Ml lle Ot Ap eee’ tor the job he is dndeavoring to fil.| company. And he will respond valuable paper has been waging a|We had a commission worth its salt cries for help that Jane had heard,| Who got on a few stations from the | #rlys ag o that © sie | (Ot as hired employees do to-day fight to improve the I. R, T. subway |!t would compel adequate service, | AB4in, the wife had escaped one night and had come down Into Jane's room, Paradise terminal always took a seat| morning, but he had not proceeded in the shop but as they do in their own gardens. ‘This seems preposterou; On learning t | far until he began to assume a puz- dropped the paper and the commu- elsewhere. zled look and later consulted the ters in the front end of the car gave close behind him and as hé was leay- ing the car appropriated the paper truth, Jane left Rochester's employ and found work This is an old story, a condition ex- dhe tried her best to forget him and to cease loving a man she | -gervice with good results, Wil you isting for years, Will you take up mot take the trouble to observe the is to many, H |And it is certainly entirely knew to be so unworthy, Another wooer sought to win her, 5 ast aside. man in the seat with him, Together an imitation of a rural audience at} out 4 h Pes Doe had of harmony with the eonditions existing rey, avenlig at sal anda PANS IRA Your Hight) “Then, one night, she heard Rochester's voice crying out to her in an-| ‘This sort of Individual was Doc's| they went over some of the startling an old time minstrel show when the!of most employers who cetahe ig Sigpeintad ee at ane avs asl ay Bone in Brookive Wha guished uppeal—although he was in another part of England at the time.| pet ayersion—-the fellow who was| headlines and events, and while they end man answers hisownconundrum, lish @ business in order to @ same p! y you have ec elp themselves? The | And, stirred by the memory of that ery, she went to him foaded, jammed in fact, This ly pulls in at 5.89 o'clock. there until 6.40 o'vlook. an oxice a ites will be given your effective co. Gperation to better these diszraceful tions, GORGE K. WHRNEL, ta Br apt. Be m N.Y. him. had in his days of brutal strength, ue /the mercy of circumstance, he who had always made circumstance serve And she consented too old to be a slacker, but just the gladly t rning after morning Doc watched pelpless man whom she hed never been able to atop loving °° UA'Y Morning nd saw this man grab the discarded right age and with enough evidence | In his weakness he had a far stronger hold on Jane's heart than he had| of prosperity to be @ rent profiteer. date line came loose and waved in pack to see what would happen. the breeze coming through the open The news grabber came along, saw window, revealing the old date line the paper, paused, made a motion to underneath, pick it up, turned away and walked ‘The news grabber turned red and out of the car, ee eorainl ; 4 3 much as possible i . ee aie J pina looking for the quid but had no quo.| were scratching their heads and re- The following morning Doc read set as L out of it Red tka plattarn nt] nee, Chambers Street. ‘BMation Avo! neers hareed to death Aisa tit Wechoater han aden tie Rowse and bad] “poo indulged m much speculation| garding cach other with suspicion, |his paper, carelessly tossed it aside ax |f0", chemacives., Lut there are om- 5 nee ed to des o that Rochester had bee; rieke! t 0; sed wecently 1 reached the platform at) ouuny bad rsalnlase iapallnn wer ri er had been stricken blind, In| cerning this individual, He was|the climax happened—the first page he was leaving the car and looked Onicr of “things and’ hy (he, new BBB o'clock. A twain was standing | “YY siacerely trust that we Brook! his helpless loneliness the man’s master(ul strength was gone, He was at € coms to i f ooklyn- realize that there is somethi business besides money, Those tate discovered that they owe somethin more to thelr men than Wages and In rendering this service have Touna e not of a i.