The evening world. Newspaper, December 1, 1919, Page 20

OS ‘ow Great Co ’ 2 MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1919 7,101 Goodyear Workers “Pay $4 Monthly Instalments ) ~ For $7,700,000 7% Stock * 4° 66% of Employees of Ohio Concern Buy Stock in Company; Average Purchase Is Five Shares at $100 a Share; 25,000 Workers} Are Gcverned by House of Representatives (46) and Senate (20) Composed Exclusively of Employees. The Evening World to-day prints the thirteenth articie of a series ioneffeating with profit sharing and co-operative plans of big companies of ~oy BBE Country which are working on the problem of industrial unrest. woul he articles are written by Martin Green, a staff correspondent of The og pMvening World, after a thorough investigation. The experiments are sape@Rolly different in scope and application and should prove of interest © @f0 all employers and employees. The Evening World believes that there “are many employers of labor whose methods of sharing profits with * sh aheir employees are not generally known. The poper would like to hear f°) From these employers. fon linuhGtthess akninncomatapsinmeunatensttaiencal 743° By Martin Green. \ { =e (From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) SOT Gecpright, 1010, by The Trem Tublising Company (The New York Krening Works ‘ede KRON, 0., Dec. 1.—E£mployees of the Goodyear Tire and . Rubber a Aas Company of Akron, 0., to the number of 17,101, subscribed, during @ ten-day period.in November, to $7,700,000 worth of an issue of ee 8 ee ee eee f 1°940,000,000 of preferred, non-asseusable 7 per cent, cumulative stock of the "§ @Orporation. The average purchase per employee was five shares at $100 ‘ 9 8 per share, The company has upon its payroll about 25,000 mgn and women. a » _ Those who purchased shares in the latest issue of preferred stock . i + t * % ” Begin to pay for it on the instalment plan, by means of deduction from or salary of 4 per month per ~ “Seren Share on the first pay day in Decemn-| Adding force to the theory that the foundation in the Goodyear plant at ies, 2919. Other features of the stock | Ayton of a form of industrial repues bn plan will be explained later tic stimulated the employees to pur- Si this article. | chase stock in the concern is @ com- Sf parison of the recent stock issue, of (The question right here is Why | which the workers took 19% per cent., pa @bout 66 per cent. af the eM-|with that of 1918, when the company of the Goodyear company buy | financed itself by selling preferred - ~ ok te lue of $15,000,000 @ eBfeck in the concern that employs|#tock to the par val x them? Thé answer appears to lie in| 24 invited the emplo to come jin. ‘The workers took per cent oe fact that the employees of the | or $1,009,000, In the interval between company are members of| these stock issues the industrial re- public plan was put into operation. The Goodyear industrial repubiic plan is founded on the Federal plan, but is much broader in its scope than the latter scheme as relates to the Influence of the workers in matters concerning wages, hours and shop ‘aaid voters in—under certain reason- +f regulations—an indo trial repub- x (which is quite the biggest thing | «if its kind in the United States. * > Gord Leverhuime of England ts aMppved (ot the copartnership in his |operation. The Federal plan usually Of 4,500 of approximately | provides for the operation of the employees eligible to such «| business of a concern, in so far ax shop But these 4,500 are partici- | management js concerned, by a House G under a bonus system and they | of Representatives, elected by the Bot receive actual shures of stock employees; a Senate, selected by the copartnership certificates which, | management, dut ‘containing + em- 4 dividend bearing, are non-trans- | ployee representation, and a Cabinet, The Goodyear employees | seldcted exclusively by the manage- ; contracted to buy their stock | ment, which has the power of veto. | Outright and when they huve paid! In the Goodyear plant the House of | for it the shares will be tirned ovor| Representatives and the Senate, i them. They are offered an incen- | which form the Industrial Assembly, olive to hold the stock after they have |ure exclusively composed of em- for it, but the outstanding mat- | ployees. There is no Cabinet. P. W of interest to them is that they | Litchfield, Vice President of the com- be absolute owners of their stock | pany and factory manager, acts for at the expiration of two Years, pro- | the company in its relations with the vided they have continued their pay-| House and the Senate. His position Ments to the end of the period in the Goodyear Industrial Republic “Oriental Fashion Note ._ | rp The Goodyear Senate and House of Representatives SENATE- GOODYEAR INDUSTRIAL oe | Fe pensatcaed ras provement is analogous to that of the President | tublished a Saturday half holiday in‘ over the company representative: “It of tardiness has decreased | 1s hard to conceive that any of the Of centag: from the assembly his Meet Monthly to Consider the Welfare of 25,0Q0 Workers pectares sieanor Gates in “Piggie” Eminent Nat of the municipal water] one of the most intellige taken by him in the performance of orations Are Solving the Wage Proble ‘Get Things, Never Mind How You Get Them,’ Philosophy Of American ‘Dollar-Chaser’ uralists Concur With Miss Gates That “Pigs Is Pets’’ and Are Most Intelligent of Animals; the Typical American Business Man and Woman Are | Practising ‘‘Piggie’”’ Philosophy To- Day. | By Marguerite Mooers: Marshall | LLIS PARKER BUTLER says “pigs is pigs,” but Eleanor Gates says She says it between, all the lines of her new and delightful book, “Piggie,” a tale which children will love for its humor. ous and lively account of the doings of a wonderful young porker, yet over which grownups will chuckle for the clever satirical touches so well understood by the author of “The Poor Little Rich Girl.” Then, too, the book is probably the first peas: to be publish in| ‘Piggte's’ me r makes to him when hion | Be la very 1 indeed the new fashion!“ “Ljsten!’ she exclaims, ‘Here’s one set by the print~| bit of sound advice that I'll give you: ors’ strike — that) "Get. things ever mind “how™ you is, “Piggie"» was| set ‘em: ‘Then Atalantis and every- follow you, and not feet root where you've left the Pig of the Pas- dy else wi too proud to off, and you'll be written on a type- |writer, the typewritten pages were | photographed the book printed |from photographic plates, making what may be a prized curiosity for the collector of odd things. “Didn't you write about ‘Piggie?’ "| 0 | I challenged slender, fun- | ¢ and complete philosophy inter, the dollar- typical American reaching out, reaching to ‘get things,’ mort » houses, stocks; factories, than bly use for breezy, e ean his coni }loving Miss Gates, when I found her ort and pleas Is he par- in her apartment, at No. 106 West ticularly scrupulous as to ‘how’ he get Bt Biveet, “to prove that his 5 them? And after he has his dollars, Ho oer te ae eeoye aeh cur own, |@on't we all follow him, admire aim osophy of Hfe is very much our *\ discover in him a lot of beauties ‘and |that in most men and women there| Virtues we should never have noticed is something of the pig?” if he had remained poor? For that “ald!” sho twinkled. “I'm so sorry matter, have not nations—as well as : "t neo the dedication, which | ndividuals-——been tising the ‘get you didn’t seo the dedic: things’ philosophy through the war was left out in the hurry of this first and after’ edition, It went something like this: “Lam not pacifist; [ be e that : ihe ‘abo «| if @ person attacks you the only thin ‘To ——. N. B.: The abov {s) todo te to stand up tor your Fighter jleft blank because author could Miss Gaves added ertheless, my nd especially Piggie’s war psychology is the human ychology hill | na no friend, ti war p willing to st lationship with a ‘Piggie!” When he has escaped he gets ascent one day of Lhave written what stead of feeling pleased that here was society ind thinking up some friehdly greetings, some expressions of polite interest, he found his hair on end and his eyes getting > warlike "woof woofs” came nd in such close re- | insulted in being comp for Miss Gates agrees with W. | Hudson, the naturalist, that the pig ts it of animals of bis own kind, of the United States in our political] all departments, This law was un-| eines oratens meen shave ‘bean neal ee naturally clean. “I used to herd | rumbi ms up out of throat, : Reputtic aa to the power of veto. He | hesitatingly signed by Manager Litch- | between committees appointed by the| them tn Dakota when I was a little)” 'And the next minute are ee Sep. Say Serer tp. hua by, the | pela arena ne | dwsembly and’ representatives of the| girl,” she explained, “so T learned a lot | Hitmage, iting forward to find the Assembly of the Goodyear Industria At the time of the formation ¢ p | management. ain of the offic about them, ‘They make wonderful raced. ‘Get out of my tertitory, | Republic, but these bodies can over- assembly there w as in force a fac- | |and.gommittees of-the assembly hold | ore es-gur, Hudson saya, and, quite| won't have other plow renter Lares ride hig 'vato by a two-thirds ‘vote, tory rule by. which workmen who | weekly conferences with the factory | P° Where are you? Put up a fight!* The plans of the Industrial Repub-| were late in reporting in the morn- |mandger’ and’ executive heads, al-| apart from the satire, T wrote ‘Piguie’| “wpira te tine ruttleenake. lellers lic provide that not until Bs t as ling were “docked” pay for, un hour | |though the house and- senate hold | to correct some'of the popular inipres-| And mother pigy teach their dittie been overturned by*a two-thirds vote | and a half ff time ork stings only on. the first’ signs about his species. ones that they cannot fight snakes of the Assembly shall the directors of | brought to the attention of the os- | Monday of each month. These con- heré ever been a time in} UNless they hate tem—just as we the corporation be called: in. Thus) genvbly unusual tr mn conditions ferences are authorised by: the plat. ‘But has ther eve De : 2 ime Taught cut soldier wore a, cant> To far the relations between tho Asvem- | which make it impossible for all em- It is specifically provided in the|the history of the world when every. hate the dummy Germans ~ againat by and the representative of the] ployees to At work on time som ustrial. republic that no | body overywhere was so thorougtly whom they trained thelr. bayoneta,” ete at Pek, Betherting, mornings After thoroukh consid- odyear employee shall be dis. | perineated with the pig's philosophy But women too may have the pig's eee EARS) UA Bement reration. the rule was so modified | criminated against on account of |} have summed that up in a speech | viewpoint, as Miss Gates pointed out, povsefpensl Ta ristine t0 the cone lose pay for only eli to every any labor organization, sKalll to occupy. He continues his pay- she rem nded mes tho woman who Ungency provided for in the plan of | eee eee nt or the. efficiency = =< there be discrimination against any| ments in the form of monthly instal- orn g and worrying’ People law being passed by the Assembly | Sethe industrial assembly. ‘The per-| ABRONG> SPEAKER OF HOUSE member ofthe assembly for action ments, the size of whic ned i . stup! and wait on her by inches, M other Pig gives her secret by his wages or salury, and at the end : by negotiation duties a& outlined in the plan.) of give years the company makes | - ‘ nsychologically, having y, a Y of five years y away, ‘We pigs are called stupid be. Fecommendgtions of the Industrial | Pechumle | Deveioleiah employees | With the Northern Ohio Traction Com-| Provision is made that the assem-| 4 present per cent, of the cost| couse were sc clever, and don't ao Assembly will’be denied by the Board | | ete be On tine |pany, obtained improved str ‘bly shall have the right to make| of the prope ‘ slanything. that aaybeay, waste ta to : | o¢ Directors.” Nembly has enacted a law | service for the workers in t changes in factory ‘rules or regula-| Now to=the recreational of theldo. Catch us being harnessed and By. * The ‘Industrial’ Assembly of the) axing all shifts in the plant per- |The assembly , after considera-| tions adopted by the management. | art worked and ‘bossed!’" i om a on op Goodyear plant makes a pretty siz-| MOOT “Loxcistative action has also tlon, uygnimously approved certain! Under the industrial republic plan| The plished in the Goodyear e human snob, according to the able industrial legislature, onsintines |) ben taken to adjust differ es bond | which were voted on in| any industrian n bring before the, plant ekly newspaper and & author of ‘Piggie.’ Is simply the euper- = of twenty’ Senators and forty Repre-| 0S") threatened to result in strikes. | the November elections in Akron, | assembly for view a complaint|monthiy m zine with a combined bred, nose-ringed pig, content to lve sentatives. For the purpose of 01 ba ag e yarticipated in) which provided for a tuberculosis} against the conduct of a foreman,| circulation of 100,000, On the sub-'on hia pedigree, kindly posing in all * uy T 4 mb! has par pa a ™ pe = in al |imtion of the Assembly the ee for civic betterments out-| sanitarium,a new viaduct and the ex-|One result of the plan has been the| scription lists are thousands of his brass-ringed glory for the humble was divided into ten tort id nodyear works. Committees! penditure of $6,000, for the imm-| speeding up of production by the con-| who are not employed by th Ititude to gaze on and admire, triets and’ forty Repro § idcdadibals icecackeaameiaceate — — fidence of employees that initiative! year concern. {| “We can this product of pig cincts. ‘Egch precino y epee and good work will bring reward, |. Goodyear Hall, a million dollar clu! philosophy in the opera boxes any cret ballot one member to the House | pam The reader may rest assured that| house, is approaching completion. It | night," T remarked, “except that the to serve one year. and each district 7 in a plant where 17,101 employees ge contains. » theatre which. will seat | ringw are not worn in the nose. Fur- elected two Senators to serve two TWO MIN stockholders very few matters con. | 3,000, a gymnasium with space for | thermore, T know y bY bags an eet ate re panies J Ss RF | |] | nected with promotion of profitable | ft 00 mpectasors ha, leans ap ee that the pid wept ac ie See \ be hot le venty-one yea Joperation , are overlooked. Every| bers of the industrial assembly and feminists, and the people opt 0 | of age and to have a continuous ser- By H erma n . 1c 1 ; : shatoholding employes has a er convenience of @ high class the League of Nations—all the dear vice record of oné year in the fac Copyright, 1019, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Wortd. dend. interest: us well as @ wuge ine ; : : 4, old Bourbons who never learn eny~ One of. | eee not lous than | terest in the business, KA Belberling the if re ident of the thing and ne forget anything — | twe! ye yéars’old and must have i : ‘The su f r company, bas given to the employees | simply thin a pig thinks. In the bean continuously employed in the} * The Pride of the Universe lane Success of tho effort to intorast| seiperiing Field, a park and recrc immortal words of your Mother Pig, fuectory for tive years or more, ftee, her] women; they who are raster of! y a sags ro i arses ; aS 4 No-| cround ¢ ing twenty-eight ac If you want to do # thing, why, then, Voters must be American citizens WE we s" on coffee, he galvann Was hig AR gn tee relma, Of preferred stock was! ne athletic and recreation elds xre| you should, because it's sure te be the Late | and able to show at least six months S husbuhd on CONC Mey ee eee ne othe pride of wee brimurily to the confidence of the | me finest in. the count ing | something that pigs have been domg of continuoys service records in the to. be Ree are i workers in the plant and its product (!" s provided for 10,000 spee- | always.’ That is, if you want to ken tactory. Qualified voters are called decided not to | ne inte} oumverse: they who will wrong|and its future, ‘but the 66 per cent, | CapACItY, Js and sports. ‘The field | women from voting or the world from industrians, and any industrian is nt] @he picked up one of the little} neither others nor the maelvos: tey |response was achieved by skilful and | } pen to the citizens of Akron future w be a stubborn pig and di D liberty to propose at any time to hix| brown pebbles and looked at it sin- | who wil ubduc thelr Paasior t! PR, [unremitting efforts to make the oim-| \* 0Pen to wdyear employe it—pigs have always don as much t ata 0 prown pebbl eens the TP aaen ie | oe ‘ B00. a : ell as Goodyear ¢ ave always done espatches | Representative or, Senator plans oF inane commands only of right and nature; | Ployees understand the selling plan! Xrves to form a closer link between| “And the wholo ph.onevhy at che suagestions for the betterment of the | wyoy,"" she muttered, a bean: | they who fight free of all dictate fo Be acre F hale Sees res the municipality’ and its greatest | tired business man about women {s workers or of the plant or both. ‘The " OT ha sho around KK laare tho dic tie ct sonmanen [Ing of the sale workers were called | industry. summed up by iny. ‘Piggie's’ father, Industral ‘republic plan was not|I am a woman.” And she & _ 2 pe ene 308 78 Tarions Gepart | Employees have formed twenty-|the prize Berkshire,” Miss G ec, adopted until it had proved | under her ‘heel jments and given talks lasting an} joven separate clubs or organizations, | pointed out. " ‘Ladic¢ y boy, member of the Assembly on tak 1 poised between his|[} COMDARY time, reational branch, The Arta|necessary—and rather — comfortable oMce subscribed to the followiny| the tiny parcel py GOING DO H} | 12 the first three hours after the] Cit": sesents musical comedies and| creatures to have about. But! Wh, loath: Nawete a *|] opening of the sale employees sub-|Club pansenis muse presents min-|do they know? What do they knows London | solemnly swear that 1 will sup “You,” he sald, “are a weed; Tam a 7 tin : Nee Tice anaine wana : jacribed for 1,000 shares. The sub- He shows nd the ¢ n Room Clib| Wu! Wu!’ pata fort the Constitution and laws of the | man.” He crushed it in his palm DBAR FRIENDS: Are you |] |criptions poured in up to the mo- | hit. on straight comedies and dramas.| ‘*God bless the ladies—what should United Statex and the State of Ohio | : arefully washed and rd NK BOTTOM? Ape TU ent Of close of the offering, the late | tro” baxoball, football, basketbull| we do without ‘ says the t. b. m. and the industrial representation ‘plan /@Mt | then earety down to ROCK BOTTOM? Are |} comers having been absc nt or Hl dur-| ang” athletic clubs for boys, girls, | Vika pode Belles of the Goodyear factory and that 1{ scrubbed his ha ; ou with friends—money— |} |1ng the preliminary campalgn, women and men give all empl elles Are | wilt to the best of my ability, faith A good many men and wome naaiincavarctiines: In: paying fo the stock on th clan opportunity to play. Boxing showy You point ut least one’other muttte [fully and conscientiously discharge | permit a bean, a weed, a hop, a a ee ne | stalment plan, employees are charged | .n4 wrestling matches draw enormous! shaft at the human male,’ I rema | member of the Assembly. poppy, a fad or 4 ene NOW you can go up. NOW, ||| due, but subscribers are credited with | 559 mutes and special efforts are made | that ho'd rather bo toused ‘than lone. Copyin, The ath is w feature T have not| warp and cripple their sivensti ©0111 you have something to live f |dividends as they accrue at the rate! ?)° Duvnit of ‘their participation. It ‘ Pying panauntonse in any other plan of co-| mutilate, stunt and paralyse Ui because you ha¥e lost your Hte |f|Of 7 ber cent, per annum. Ort sports and Kamer course—so had any man!” peer bop eg | ot anions Hpi | faculties. and a mw ready to find itt |] | stated ve 100 Seanores 8 He ribers |" "About 6,000 employees attend the| laughed Mise Gates “Don't you re | se) on by election of spokesmen abil ) say “NO,” even thoug Re ure paid a cash bon 8 Der si actory school, which co-operates with | Member the old story of the one wh for the workinen, Other features aro| nability to say ie unbal- || Always remember that no one |]4 per annum if they remain in the ser. {factory wehool, whieh caconersen wilh) ved the Lord for a wife?’ Sho tor. the ununui Jal the w eaye a curses||| CYer made a success in gthis |]| vice of the company. Of course, after) Vrector of physical education, ‘The! mented him. so much that. he berwed 7 nate and (he house have sep- | ances many 4 strong man and hich| {| World who did not first strike |} } the insta meat payments have bee? | school faculty is composed of selected | to have her takeh away. But then he arate chambers for their delibera-|him with @ weakness which | }| World who did hot Wirt alrite 1) conciuded and the employee is the | school faculty, ts cour ciulty of | Was so lonesome that he appealed ones . jtions, and after Jan. 1 will be in-| 9» ke his powers and makes his; [| '°* Jowner of the stock he receives hia] NWT their pupils. ‘The educa-| more to Deity for her return, saying: Chinese | *t8¥ed tn quarters in the new $1,000,- | "4 hen ia eantacaay | thoroughly disgusted that ¢he |} | dividends in cash tion of persons who have grown into| ‘Oh, Lord, what is this creature whom e 000 club house connected with) the| hours a dilahted yesterday, 1% | was ready to end it all The Goodyear Company maintains] Minhood or womanhood in utter ig-|T oan neither get along with nor get |Goodyear plant. Hach — legislatlve A man who cannot command him TW vaiitenl ‘hak wav, nowte in Akron, in and about the plant, wel- | Torince is recognized by he Goody along withou |ehamber will be eq d with a ros-|yel¢ is a mannikin or g pygmy; he Now I8 THI fare and recreation activities which| management as a problem requiring| Verily, it's a pig's world, my mesy Ya gh* |trum—on which will rest. gavel and} witl never command othe Bea wa | Ue Pe . ure not approached In any other in-| mings trained along lines apart from | ters! Fashions | the conventional pitcher of icewater Deen cae Hil tha aio) OST! Many like you have {| dustrial institution in the world, | minds framed Mote ‘eucher of eager! | dosks for clerks and members, and a] Not rile clroumstangs | given in to the blue devils of ||| Space limitations prevent more than ee OTS Oy the college profedson, So ea gallery for spectators, The desks will | being 4 skive tae | ‘discouragement and have been |I {4 sketchy outline hens, far. ra uC me eRities of the plant are dic ADVERTISEMENT. | be arranged in the gemi-cireular form] A man is a mockery, he can attain ing efforts on the part o} a ated toward the continuance of what | wee |]| swallowed up in oblivion 1 workers for enjoyment, | rected towary coer Why H Red peculiar to State legislative chambers. | only to sapling streneth/ he will be! |! jiment a Py 4 roing |i8 known as “Goodyear Spirit rhis y Have Hands Btrict parliamentary fules govern th laickly inatead of healthy, leaning in unre leid 9 ANAL S498: hear Bn CAUCAHOR bare Peto is a feeling of trust in the employee They ure a constant j deliberations, J. B, Long is aker | ptlng, foraver depend mn ROCK BOTTOM and |}|into them Tw Sate actly tte TH IFN part of the management and) ie enceraph ; annoyance to Jaf the house und E, J. Hard tx prewi- | stead of supporting, built fame and fortune. *T]Lereph to tae. meres t tola feeling of trust in the man nt frapuer or clerk who has te ; ! ent and never independent if he stays inducements which 4 a aa OE er hy many times a day 3 mt of the senate, Both are popu , i Jent if he st WAKE UP—Get up—do wot [1] poucemonte which are held out tole the ‘part of emplo he mu. | Wash her yt day, It veteran employees of the Goodyear! nound to a habit, indulgence or de ‘ . | GOORNSRS WOERer eo. may select | tual. trust desc in the | is ewsy to avoid the teduess by rubbing concern, | rect which undermines his robustness Yours for success, |, Any Goodyear employ ay ne i sant cwhere gaccutives und the hands with VELOGEN ming |. As to how the plan is working, gon | saps his manhood and atrophic ALFALPA SMITH 13, lot, maxe & oa a nd haye|industrians alike ud the skin smooth und soft: 25 cent tubes | St ee semitts may be cited. One of ability to du. 4 : ‘Grected the kind of @ house he Wants members of "the Vamily.” at the druggist the passe the assembly es world wants true men a e ind nous ' laws 0 by ‘ ‘ N a a