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Page 3 - The purpose of the Department of Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 12 - It is important that such fears should be guarded against in the initiation of any scheme. We look upon successful Works Committees as the broad base of the Industrial Structure which we have recommended, and as the means of enlisting the interest of the workers in the success both of the industry to which they are attached and of the workshop or factory where so much of their life is spent. These Committees should not in constitution or methods of working discourage Trade organization.
Page 11 - Council believes that in all large permanent shops a regular arrangement should be provided whereby, first, a committee of the workers would regularly meet with the shop management to confer over matters of production...
Page 11 - We are of opinion that the complete success of Works Committees necessarily depends largely upon the degree and efficiency of organization in the trade, and upon the extent to which the Committees can be linked up, through organizations that we have in mind, with the remainder of the scheme...
Page 4 - The matters with which these committees are concerned are primarily safety and welfare work with a small number trying to extend their activities to include grievances. Although these committees are constantly hailed as examples of industrial democracy, they involve no element of collective bargaining or joint control over terms and conditions of employment.
Page 11 - As the right of workers to bargain collectively through committees has been recognized by the Board, the company shall recognize and deal with such committees after they have been constituted by the employees.
Page 9 - ... may be misled into thinking they are going to have a real voice in the management and become resentful and rebellious when they find out the truth. If these advisory shop committees are used in personnel management work it is very important that most careful explanations be made to the employees so that they will not misunderstand.
Page 11 - We think it important to state that the success of the Works Committees would be very seriously interfered with if the idea existed that such Committees were used, or likely to be used, by employers in opposition to Trade Unionism. It is strongly felt that the setting up of Works Committees without the co-operation of the Trade Unions and the Employers...
Page 10 - ... circumstances of the trade; and, in accordance with this principle, we refrain from indicating any definite form of constitution for the Works Committees. Our proposals as a whole assume the existence of organizations of both employers and employed and a frank and full recognition of such organizations. Works Committees established otherwise than in accordance with these principles...
Page 6 - Personal relations. — What I have called the personal relations presents the problem of managing human beings in industry. It • means handling the human element that goes into production with . the same understanding of the feelings, instincts, prejudices/ and ' characteristics of the workers as the management has of the materials and mechanical forces which it uses. The personal relations in...