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Show Mechanical Engineers Favor Fa-vor "Real" Collective Bargaining Plan. NEW YOliK, Dec. 4. Creation of a buroau of research by employers and employees to bring about a condition of "real" collect ivo bargaining was advocated ad-vocated ;it today's session of the annual an-nual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which was devoted to discussion of industrial unrest. un-rest. Tlic suggestion was made by A. E. Do Lceuw of New York, a consulting engineer, who confined his paper to consideration of wage payment. "Collective bargaining, ' 1 according to Mr. De Lceuw, is a misleading term. He assorted that under tho present conditions there can be no bargaining "for the issue has been brought to a conclusion by strikes or threats of strikes." This, continued the speaker, "is no more' a method of bargaining Uian when n man points a gun at his debtor to collect a bill." Assorting that the 'difficulty in paying pay-ing labor is to find a unit of measurement, measure-ment, Mr. Do Lceuw added, that "wo must drop lo a large extent tho idea that wage is the eompensat ion for time," and declared "it should be made a compensation for product delivered. de-livered. ' 7 Ho closed by urging "a concerted effort by employers and employees to bring about a classification of labor so that wages can bo set lo such a degree of scientific accuracy that variations caused by disturbing facts will not l.j so largo but that they will lend themselves them-selves to compromise." |