"Everyone is wondering who the person is who put chocolate peppermints
in some of the girls' pockets while they were hanging in the Girls' Rest
Room Thursday afternoon, it being so hot that they melted and
practically ruined some of their clothing. Some folks have a funny sense
of humor."
* * * * *
Then there are excerpts from speeches made by the Rev. Charles Aubrey
Eaton and young Mr. Rockefeller or by the President and Treasurer of the
Diamond Motor Sales Corporation, saying, in part:
"The man who makes good in any line of work is the man who gives the
best there is in him. He doesn't watch the clock. He doesn't kick when
he fails to get that raise that he may have expected. He just digs into
the job harder and makes the dust fly. And when some one comes along
waving a red flag and tries to make him stop work and strike for more
money, he turns on the agitator and says: 'You get the h---- out of
here. I know my job better than you do. I know my boss better than you
do, and I know that he is going to give me the square deal just as soon
as he can see his way clear to do it. And in the mean time I am going to
WORK!'
"That is the kind of man who makes good."
* * * * *
And then there are efficiency contests, with the force divided into
teams trying to see which one can wrap the most containers or stamp the
largest number of covers in the week. The winning team gets a felt
banner and their names are printed in full in that week's issue of "Pep"
or "Nosey News."
And biographies of employees who have been with the company for more
than fifty years, with photographs, and a little notice written by the
Superintendent saying that this will show the company's appreciation of
Mr. Gomble's loyal and unswerving allegiance to his duty, implying that
any one else who does his duty for fifty years will also get his
picture in the paper and a notice by the Superintendent.
It will easily be seen how this sort of house organ can be made to
promote good feeling and esprit de corps among the help. If only more
concerns could be prevailed upon to bring this message of weekly or
monthly good cheer to their employees, who knows but what the whole
caldron of industrial unrest might not suddenly simmer down to mere
nothingness? It has been said that all that is necessary is for capital
and labor to understand each other. Certainly such a house organ helps
the employees to understand their employers.
Perhaps some one will start a house organ edited by the employees for
circulation among the bosses, containing newsy notes about the owners'
families, quotations from Karl Marx and the results of the
profit-sharing contest between the various mills of the district.
This would complete the circle of understanding.
LVII
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