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Show KROPP UNION TO BUY STOCK Labor SusjDects Offer of Partial Control Is Capitalistic Plot ESSEN. Germany, Feb. 25 (B the Associated Press.) Union labor has rejected the plan proposed by' the Krupp works, under which work-in work-in n were to have purchased a special spe-cial issue of stock with their saving), and were to receive a certain administrative admin-istrative privilege. looking toward cooperative management of tha plants, according to the Krupp announcement. an-nouncement. Tho resolution in which the plan was rejected by the Krupp shop soviet so-viet declares that the Krupp management man-agement Intended to "unload" stock on the workmen, and by creating "capitalists" among the laborers destroy de-stroy the solidarity of the working classes. The labor leaders believed particl- patlon in the management of the plants, as stock owners, could in no manner lead to better economic re- i Intlons with employers. and would I endanger the status of the manuil laborer in relation to the 'brain worker." I Radical, Socialist and labor news- ! papers give tho Krupp firm credit for : an attempt to alleviate the "social j problem" by promotion of a bl fain I Uy of employes and employers, bur, i nevertheless, enerally approve the ac- ! tion of the Essen labor unions und express the hope that German labor will stand together against any "schemes to capitalize the working men and women or destroy their class solidarity." |