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Show TO REVIVE INDUSTRY BY HOOVERIZING ISPLANNEO Elngineera and Labor Committees Com-mittees Get Their Heads Together for Purpose NEW YORK, March 11. A plan in on foot to "Hoovorlz." Industry. It'H culled tiy It. .ponnor. tho only cure for InduMtiial d.preH8ion and unemployment. un-employment. It ta the goal aimed at by the committee com-mittee of nlxteen of the Federated American Knttlneerine; Societies, appointed ap-pointed by Herbert Hoover, to make a survey of Industry and find a plan to! eliminate wajtte and Inefficiency. j It's tha same Koal akaad of a paral.j le committee of sixteen representa-' tlve of Inhor unions tiiklny a first assasaiasmaaeBasas" step at the unemployment conference In New York, held March 6. "Knirineers are loejlcal mediators between be-tween capital and labor," said J. Parke ChsnnlnK. chairman of the Hoover committee. "80 the engineers' com. mlttee wants .to work with tha labor men." I niluslrlnl leaders and lahorchlef agree that Hoover's Identification with the unemployment survey and the attempt at-tempt to find a cure for Industrial Ills will have an added value ae the result of his appointment ae secretary of commerce. "If we can 'HooverlaV Industry the aame as we did food we can atablllae industry and cure and prevent unemployment," unem-ployment," an Id Channlng. - Chairman Channlng la vice president I of the Federated Kiiglneerjng Wocletiea. of which Hoover la president, and also a member of the American Institute of Mining end Metallurgical Engineers "The Engineers are driving at the aame thing labor Is," said Jack Bradon, chairman of the preliminary labor conference con-ference that formed the labor committee commit-tee of aixteen to call the unemployment unemploy-ment conference. Bradon la also secretary of district No. 1, Amalgamated Metal Workers of America. IDLENESS WASTE. 'Every man out of work la a waete in Industry." aald Channlng. "We munt eliminate that waste atahlllce Industry Indus-try by preventing the peaks and valleys val-leys of booms and depressions just as the federal reserve bank ayatem has , stabilized banking. "Capital la aa much to blame aa labor la-bor for waste In Industry. Our survey will ahow where the waate is how capital la to blame for mismanagement mismanage-ment and Inefficiency and how labor le to blame by reaaon of working restriction. re-striction. Channlng cited a specific waate due to labor restriction. And later In a talk with Bradon the labor leader emphasised em-phasised the aame point. .Said Channlng: "If union rules say a bricklayer can only lay ao many bricks a day when he actually la capable capa-ble of laying twice as many, it Is waate that ought to be eliminated for thai : benefit of employer and emplove.-I emplove.-I BONUS SYSTEM. Held Bradon: "1'nfalr distribution : of wsges and profits Is waate. The j man who does the most work should : get the moat money. That can be I done by a bonus system. H will pre-: pre-: vent waste that hurts both labor and : capital." rhaonlng says the engineers committee com-mittee of sixteen hopes to give the facta to the public and let the public ; Judge wherein each aide la to blame, : and how the problem can be aotved. "Unemployment and Induatrlsl de. pression will never he ended until there Is ooo Deration between capital and labor," aald Channlng. "IXint get the ldep from my re. marks about a bonus stem. that we favor taking over the factories." said ttradon. "What we want is coopers itlon- I t'hanning ssid the engineers' snrvey ! would show the unstabilized condition of many Industries. He pointed to I iron mining as most stable of ill, and j the garment industry aa the moat unstable, un-stable, because of the seasonal char- acter of the work, j SURVEY INDUSTRY. The labor group already has -made a I survey i,t the garment industry in New York, which will be the first Industry In-dustry eurveyed by the engineers. Professor James T. Grady f Columbia Colum-bia university. socisted with L. W. Wallace, vice chairmen of rhe committee com-mittee of sixteen, said the garment Industry In-dustry survey would be directed particularly par-ticularly toward sweat shops. "If a practical plan can be worked out by the cooperation between labor and capital, with n)ie engineers a mediators, a treat step will be taken." aald Bradon. "Committees such as our original council In New York win establish headquarters in Chicago, Cincinnati, Han Francisco nad prob ably other big cities." |