Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-03-06 | Page 4 | Capital - Labor Fight Idleness

CAPITAL-LABOR FIGHTJLENESSj Joint National Survey of Unemployment Un-employment Will Be Undertaken BY F,. M CUM TCRY NKW YORK. Mar. 5. Two widel separated Rioups the country's le.id-Ine le.id-Ine engineers and an informal orcaitl-gation orcaitl-gation of labor leaders have simultaneously simul-taneously reached a hnsis for w-orUlnc out the problem of unemployment. It's an. engineering problem, both groups de. ided. Neither was aware of thp other n activities. Now they are ffolnc to get together to end the Industrial plump, reduce uncttiploirTilent and ohiatr I further wage rutting. a committee of lfi appointed i Herbert Hoover decided to speni 800,000 raised by the Federated American KnKineerinfr Societies to survey economic evils In American Industry In-dustry and find a nlnn to eliminate the waste and inefficiency held responsible re-sponsible for unemployment Twenty-SlX labor bodies, includlnc the American Federation of Labor, have lolned In the working out of a j practical plan to end unemployment I With the aid of engineers and lndus- trial experts. The engineers committee of 1 6 has df, id. d to work with tho l;.t.or lodles, i hoping to parallel the survey with a co-operative working plan evolved by the unprecedented association of Industrial In-dustrial leaders and workers. Hoover, as president of the Fed-1 crated Amerl n Engineering Societies, Is honorary chairman of the committee commit-tee of lb .r I'arke Channing. mining engineer, is chairman and 1- V Wal-laci Wal-laci vice chalrmani The federation comprise! 100 ties with a mem bership of 160.000 engineers si'l!T VI M I The engineers' survey has the en-doix.-mi-nt of the American Federation of Labor and the L'nlted States Cham- ber of Commerce. Several hundred field workers st;ni Immediately on the survev.. They I will report early in April, when th- ; Knglneerlng Societies will Met in ai rem' fl i.i I u :i Initial investigation is to be into. ' the textile Industry and the shoe Industry In-dustry i;nd manufacturing generally in N( w ESngland. New York and l'enn-s l'enn-s I van la. "The human side of industry Is a big ngineerlng problem that has been neglected," said Vice Chairman Wal- lace. This Is to lie a social, economic and business Survey. We want to prove evils in industry, eradicate them and prevent them growing up again." Kirst :irtnn taken b labor le.dersi was the calling of an "Unemployment Conference'' here March f. I tBOK 'SI l MPED" ! Imitations to engineers to tackle I In problem were sent oul nfter a pre-I Imunarv meeting of 26 labor leaders reached this point of view. 'i can't start up Industry until un-til we discover how industry Is run. Lei us get the facts Let u arrange i plan by which idle man-power can he applied to Idle equipment and lb-j ' unemployed set to work to produce the things they want." The germ of the idea evolved by ' the engineers Is credited to Charles K. I Knoepel of New York His original yrheme called ror a systematic lo--taklng, the creation of new standards! of production approximating normal, I nnd the establishment of a reservoir for products for which there may not be a lively demand now. Knoeppel's plan recommended thai employers take workers wholly lntov their confidence and that a definltcl coop ratlve arrangement be mde with! the A K. of L. Members of the engineers commit-! tee of 1 6 Include : Honorary Chairman lloeiver, Chair- man Channing Vice Chairman W'al- lace, Harrington Emerson, Robert Linton Robert B. Wolf. John H. Will-1 Will-1 lams. Charles K. Knoepple and L. 1' Alford, all of New York, I'reil J. Miller, bucks county, l'a., Morris L. i Cooke, Philadelphia ; Ira N. Mollis. Worcester, Mas.s., George l BabCOCk, Peoria, ill.; B. R. Hunt. Riverside. Conn,; H. R. V. Schnl. PSSSaJC, N.I 1 J.. and P. G. Coburn. Bethlehem, Pa.