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Show I I Reconstruction Period ; of After War Discussed ; by Manufacturers. ROCKEFELAR TALKS Son of Magnate Declares Capita! and Labor Are Partners. ATLANTIC-CITY. J.,Dcc.- 5. An industrial creed foV "the four parities par-ities of industry' capital, management, manage-ment, labor and the community was outlined by John D. Rockefelfer, Jr., in an address today before the war j emergency and reconstruction confer-; confer-; ence, in session here . Asserting that capital and labor are I partners with common interests and I not enemies. Mr. Rockefeller slated iten tonets of his industrial creed. These Included advancement by indus- try, of social as well as material well being of employes; opportunity by employes em-ployes to earn a living tinder condl-j condl-j Hons of fair wages, reasonable hours i and proper industrial environments: reward for Initiative and efficiency; machinery for uncovering and promptly prompt-ly adjusting grievances; adequate representation rep-resentation of all the Industrial parties with annual conferences to assure industrial in-dustrial harmony and prosperity, in each plant, with this system extended "to include all plants in the same industry, in-dustry, all industries in a community, in a nation and in the various nations!" Mr. Rockefeller added: "As the leaders of industry face this period of reconstruction, what will their attitude be? Will it be that of the standpatters who lake no account of the extraordinary changes which have come over tho face of the civilized civil-ized world; who say 'what has been and is must continue to be with our backs to the wall we will fight it out along the old lines or go down with the ship;' who attempts stubbornly to resist tho inovltablo and arming themselves them-selves to the teeth invite open warfaro with tho other parties in industry, the certain outcome of which will be fi- nanri.nl ln5R rmrl anfrnrlnir in nil v. - ..v UUllM J(, IU till, (.U U development of bitterness and hatred and in the end tho bringing out through legislation if not by force of conditions far moro drastic and ladical than could amicably bo arrived at through mutual concession in friendly conference? "Or you will bear an attitude in which I myself profoundly believe, which takes cognizance of the Inhorl-tent Inhorl-tent rights and Justico of tho principles princi-ples underlying tho nor order; which recognizes that mighty changes are In ovltable, many of them desirable; which, not waiting until forced to adopt new methods, lakes tho lead in Calling togethor tho parties In interest for a round table conference to be held in a spirit of Justico and brotherhood, brother-hood, with a view to working out some plan of co-operation which will Insure to all those conceded adequate representation, repre-sentation, and an opportunity to earn a fair wago under proper working and living conditions, with such restrictions restric-tions as to hours as shall leave time not alono for rocroatlon, but also for tho development of the higher things of life." |