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Show CHICAGO TO : HAVE BOUT I M LABOR i PROBLEMS Profit-Sharing Scheme j' of International Har- vester Company Now I Attracting Attention. i ' : Business Conditions Are L" Fairly Good Despite Existing Uncertainty , Over Foreign Trade. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. .C:::-Tia:. 1?!?. bv New York Ever.ir.g I ' Post, Ir.c. ) i Sr:iai to The Tribune. -j ; "KICAGO. April 13. Sever, years a0 . . i as very city, with its emror.ir.er.t of ; "izdcsiry, a group of rr.e:i R::d Tven-.er. :L-i5:?r.ed themselves Progressives and rr.e the Bull Moose platform of social . ::ice. The Bui! Moose party Qiech but , :ts doctrines live, ar.d today there is r.o t :re strikir.g phase ot ths period of . nrsitioa 'twixt war ar.i pe.ce than ihe love.er.t among: employers, at .east, to . "is.-stard ar.d to analyze, ar.d. if r.)t : iiy3 hr.x?ciaceiy. to apply principles day br.i.g about a democrat Izati.-n ::' ird'jstry. it is too early to say vhether the et-I et-I to anticipate trouole arises out o; - ' i te2r of smethir.s considered remote " intangible. like the Bolshevism of :cre:jnlind5. or whether it is a reoogni- - '..or simply of the partnership oi" labor. ; . lvay. employers are asking questions - lryir. experiments. Mary who - : titr heard of the platform of the lr:t-. lr:t-. iator party are asking those who do : itqt about it to come and lecture to Profit-sharing Tried. . h"-c:Lr:es Chicago business concerns . .l ih?:r systems of profit sharing - ; welfare work are multiplying. The 1 srT-at;or.al Harvester company has a : --haring schen.e that is attracting . '-"-w:ae attention and an organiza--- p.an which is designed to give the "orders ail the advantages of trade t-.::ns without the so-called disadvan-. disadvan-. J-'s - interference Ly outside orcan-. orcan-. or.s between employers and their Some of this the labor leaders are :T-r.'.erirg about. For, if the manufac-oace manufac-oace 'ea the employees a share tie concern's profits and an opportu-. opportu-. - -7 to discuss wages ar.d hours directly roush a regularly chosen spokesman. '. of 'h talking points of the union . ?:'.t disappear. - -t is this plan which Samuel Gompers - supposed to have characterized as a . - Wip imitation of trade unionism." The . "i-vester company plan may or may not : - a good one. but there is an element ' -' auraor in the competition between em-. em-. Payers ar.d union leau-rs. each seeking prove his system is more beneficial ,'' &- worklngman. jbor Problem Studied. ,JrrK b's fact is Hie welfare of the e'YLixn l no lonc-er a thing being . .i-V;1 , b-v settlement workers! lur. academicians. Boards of directors .r aor.ut it nrj appoint committees to' ''-r's lo suggest practical plans, j a... s 0( bolh capita! and labor are " silly, not U of them, to be sure, for ! ..ooniness and selfishness have not LiV . i om human nature as vet. j Inni, c'-'nscitis of itself. " Mavbe '. as encouraged it. Anvhow. the i i-vtv ' :s far frc'in clear. It is full of' rwtrf'nc,,?- Those who beloved the ! '. l::va on o' 1-abor was optosed to po- i ,?an'zat'on a such find the i '. ri? ,u,rf engaged in forming the ! I'aj'- v,-, Party. Chicago has at i v-im",'.- , laboring men. vet onlv 57. (. ' :--iin Labor party ticket in the cltv j ' oiVm Krec'?ntl-V- The Socialists are ac-t",,', ac-t",,', 7 some of the labor leaders of! ' "'6 lo support the Labor ticket. j Thompson Drew Dissatisfied. j Sliliif, Hr"? Thompson was elected bv ! Si I-. " 'y.' !" WO. Son,elodv has fig- I 'cn . that at least H".W0 negroes i "..iir, rh'caso- enough to swing "r0n. 1,k that. It sems prettv --r.-itV. r lhat Mayor Thompson rul-i " rfa. JlS5at:sried. the pro-German of t'.JJi?' an,i drew strength from the; '-. -3. as as. from the Kepubli-; ri'wh0 s"enls as illogical as .New j c 'v ,J." con'es t.j choosing mavors. I ' in lt'1, Rh more than tJih),C;.0 Germans: " rran . 1 as u"'y as not to re-elect! lotfr. tefused to receive Marshal j ' ls?.t,,n of surprises, though not I ' !"t.c. Just a few .lavs ago, i "' Ism,".""?' .'he l:iinr.i ManufactU'.-rs' , i" jl'v'" ,h0d a banrjuet. At that tcm- " 'h.'in " akr. former vice j.r-sid.-nt ti-t' ' ate l-'ederatlon of Labor, was a i '-JJ'ak'T. N'nw tltr is no man ' " ; (Cocted on Page 13, Column 1.) I : CHICAGO TO FIGHT ; . LABOR PROBLEMS (Cou::m:ed frora Fage One.) vho roust :!. in. aaaa.a .-.A-as -are Vat.rv th.a Xvalx-r ,t !a ...s jst-.v:-.. St.. a a '..as '....'. !'..... 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