The Lynn Plan of Representation (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Lynn Plan of Representation Our industrial machinery is facing, as the result of the war, a threat of almost complete paralysis. While this threat is largely due to fundamental economic conditions, America is confronted with a tense situation in the century old tug-of-war between the Trade Union and Capitalist. The latter, after three years of helplessness in the face of the demands of Organized Labor, supported by a liberal administration, has at last rallied his forces and, with the assistance of a period of depression, is rapidly recovering lost ground. The situation, however, presents nothing more than a reaction to a reaction, and It will be only a matter of time until the pendulum swings once more In the other direction. Manifestly, the present drive for the Open Shop is but additional proof of the fact that present methods of maintaining industrial relations between Employer and Employee fall short of producing permanent good results. The "Employee Representation" system is the outgrowth of the existing unsatisfactory situation in the industrial world. It is designed to afford a means of co-partnership between Employee and Employer that will have as its fundamental "mutual dealing" on a basis of fact rather than "collective bargaining" on a basis of "get as much and give as little as possible." Many prominent business men, therefore, consider that the Representation Plan offers the hope of solution of the wasteful impasse that has been reached in the struggle between Capital and Labor. Innumerable plans of various kinds have been established by different companies throughout the United States. The War Labor Board adopted the idea and made the formation of an Employee Representation Plan a part of many of its awards.* The Lynn Plan of Representation was one of those established by the War Labor Board. The success that has attended the experiment at the Lynn Works of the General Electric Company justifies a careful analysis of the operation and results of the Plan used in that plant. I have endeavored to perform this task, but limitations of time have prevented me from making the investigation as thorough as the importance of the subject would warrant. None the less, I hope to be able to present fully those phases of the Plan that, in view of the early developmental stage of the movement, will be of greatest value. I felt that my work would have been incomplete had the point of view of the Management only been obtained. Hence, the conclusions arrived at embody the results of an investigation that has included Employer, Employee and Union Officials. In consequence I am indebted to the courtesy of many people, several of whom I did not even know by name, but whose kindness I wish here to The Shop Committee by William Leavitt Stoddard, Administrator for the National War Labor Board. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.