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Show To begin with its plan is based on the assumption that our representative represen-tative form of government with its constitutional limitations is the best form of government so far devised and that our United States constitution constitu-tion is the most nearly perfect instrument in-strument ever conceived for the government gov-ernment of a civilized people. The company declares for the following fol-lowing principles which intelligent employers and employees alike must recognize as essential to the future successful operation of any line of industry: 1. Every citizen has the inherent right either as employer or employee to engage in any lawful business or occupation; to produce as much as the demand for his product will justify jus-tify or to earn as much as his individual indi-vidual productive effort will command, com-mand, to discharge any employee or to quit his occupation; subject only to valid exercise of public authority or to the obligations of a lawful contract con-tract of employment. 2. Production of the maximum required re-quired output of industry is the common social obligation of all persons per-sons engaged therein, with one con- sideration for the health, safety and well-being of the individual. 3. The employee's wage originates solely in the product of industry, hence must be earned and measured by the employee's individual contribution con-tribution thereto. 4. The number of working hours of the clay or week should be determined, de-termined, in any industry by the maximum economical output, providing pro-viding one day of rest in seven, or its equivalent, and duly considerng the health and well-being of the employee. em-ployee. 5. The right of the employer or employee to engage in any lawful business or occupation may be exercised ex-ercised either individually or collectively collec-tively by voluntary association. However, collective action confers no authority over and does not restrict the rights of any individual who declines de-clines to act with them. SOUND INDUSTRIAL CURED. ' I The United States Portland Cement Cem-ent company of Denver has been working on a plan of industrial relations re-lations between employer and employee. |
