pleased to give you the following information as to distribution of certain other specific documents, releases, etc. Reprint from Chicago Tribune: Reprinted about April, 1937-Distribution about 135,000. What's Going On in America: Date: July 1937. Manner of Circulation: Sent to members, council and special list of ministers, educators, chief editorial writers of daily papers. Amount of Distribution: 100,000. Re-Employment is News: Date: May 20, 1937. Manner of Circulation: Sent to members and council. Amount of Distribution: Approximately 10,000. Editorial with Drawing of Constitution: Date: August 1937. Manner of Circulation: Sent to our list of plant publications and foreign language newspapers. Amount of Distribution: About 2,500 proofs and 700 mats. Community Program Outline & Chart:" Date: About July 1937. Manner of Circulation: To members and council and upon request from individuals. Amount of Distribution: About 30,000 outlines and 10,000 charts. Memorandum on Community Public Information Program:3 Date: Memorandum not dated and do not recall when it was prepared. Distributed to membership. Law Department Bulletin of July 23, 1935:* Approximately 12,000 circulated, most of them to our regular mailing list and the balance on request. Law Department Bulletin of July 5, 1935:" Approximately 16,000 copies distributed. Pamphlets of the Constitutional Education League: (3)° Approximately 10,000 copies of the first were distributed; 7,000 of the second, and 6,000 of the third. The second and third pamphlets were reprints from an address of a member of Congress. Yours very truly, (Signed) JOHN C. GALL, Counsel, National Association of Manufacturers. JCG: O'N. JUNE 7, 1937. EASTERN COMMITTEE-EMPLOYMENT ADVISORY GROUP H. B. Bergen, McKinsey, Wellington & Company, 2 Wall St., New York, N. Y. William J. Campbell, Director of Mohawk Carpet Mills, Inc. (Personnel), Amsterdam, New York. C. S. Ching, Director Industrial & Public Relations, United States Rubber Company, 1790 Broadway, New York, N. Y. C. R. Dooley, Indus. Rltns. Mgr., Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., 26 Broadway, New York, N. Y. F. C. Evans, Dir. Service Dept., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc., Wilmington, Del. George Fonda, Assistant to President, Weirton Steel Company, Weirton, West Virginia. Clarence J. Hicks, Chrm. Exec. Comm., Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, N. Y., N. Y. Col. John Jackson, Director of Personnel, Consolidated Edison Company, 4 Irving Place, New York, N. Y. G. M. Keller, Indus. Rltns. Dir., Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company, 105 Hudson St., Jersey City, N. J. A. L. Dress, National Electrical Manufacturers Assn., 155 E. 44th St., N. Y. N. Y. S. F. Larchar, Personnel Manager, Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Orange, N. J. W. G. Marshall, Vice President, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, 306-4th Ave., Pittsburgh, Penna. John P. Syme, Indus. Rltns. Mgr., Johns-Manville Corp., 22 East 40th Street, New York, N. Y. R. L. Mason, Indus. Ritns., Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, 26 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Royal Parkinson, Personnel Dir., American Optical Company, Southbridge, Mass. R. Smith Payne, Cluett, Peabody & Company, Inc., Troy, New York. T. D. Peace, Manager Industrial Relations, Shell Union Oil Corporation, 50 W. 50th St., New York, N. Y. Oscar A. Phelps, Personnel Mgr., The Fuller Brush Company, 3580 Main St., Hartford, Conn. W. B. Place, Supervisor Industrial Relations, Kiechkhefer Container Co., Delair, New Jersey. Henry D. Sayer, Manager Casualty Division, Ass'n of Casualty & Surety Executives, 1 Park Avenue, New York, N. Y. G. R. Schenck, Supt. Personnel Rltns. Div. RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, N. J. T. G. Spates, Dir. Indus. Rltns., General Foods Corporation, 250 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. J. Towsen, West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., 230 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. Wm. R. Webster, Chrm. Bdg., Bridgeport Brass Co., Bridgeport, Conn. John Williams, Director Industrial Relations, The Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company, Stamford, Connecticut. W. H. Winans, Indus. Rltns. Dept., Union Carbide Company, 30 East 42nd St., New York, N. Y. REVISED 10/6/37. WESTERN COMMITTEE-EMPLOYMENT ADVISORY GROUP G. W. Adrianson, Commonwealth Edison Company, 72 W. Adams St., Chicago, Ill. D. W. Alexander, Asst. to V. P., Stewart-Warner Corporation, Chicago, Illinois. H. W. Anderson, Indus. Rltns. Dept., General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. W. J. Barclay, Personnel Director, Campbell, Wyant & Cannon Foundry Co., Muskegon, Michigan. C. W. Gergquist, Western Electric Company, Chicago, Illinois. H. D. Beutlich, Director Personnel, Nash Motors Division, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation, Kenosha, Wisconsin. R. J. Blyth, Employment Manager, The Warner & Swasey Co., Cleveland, Ohio. G. W. Brown, Personnel Director, Wagner Electric Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri. L. B. Brown, Labor Dept. Director. International Shoe Co., St. Louis, Missouri. W. P. Brown, Vice-President, Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan. Fred W. Climer, Personnel Manager, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. James D. Cooney, V. P., Wilson & Co., Inc., Chicago, Ill. C. S. Craigmile, Vice-President, Belden Manufacturing Company, 4247 W. Van Buren St., Chicago, Ill. W. P. Edmunds, M. D., Mgr. Dept. of Industrial Relations, The Standard Oil Company, Cleveland, Ohio. Harvey G. Ellerd, Dir. of Personnel, Armour & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Ill. George M. Foster, Vice-President, John Morrell & Co., Ottumwa, Iowa. James P. Gatherum, Personnel Dir., Great Lakes Steel Corp. Division National Steel Corporation, Ecorse, Detroit, Mich. P. O. Geier, The Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Col. W. R. Grove, Vice-President., Wilson & Co., Chicago, Ill. Paul W. Herring, Director Employ. Rltns. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company, Adams St. & Michigan Ave. Chicago, Ill. A. E. Holdstedt, Mgr. Employee Rltns. Dept., Crane Co., Chicago, Ill. Maury Hopkins, Director Indus. Relations Wilson & Company., Inc., Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Ill. A. F. Hunt, V. P. in Charge Operations Swift & Co., Chicago, Illinois. Walter J. Ireland, Employment Mgr., Kohler Co., Kohler, Wisconsin. Highfield Johnson, Personnel Dir., The Hoover Co., North Canton, Ohio. George J. Kelday, Mgr. Indus. Rltns. Dept., International Harvester Company, 180 No. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. H. J. Kelley, Indus. Rltns. Mgr., American Seating Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan. W. J. McPherson, Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, 72 West Adams St.. Chicago, Illinois. Clark Marion, Vice-President, The Champion Paper and Fibre Company, Hamilton, Ohio. F. A. Hibbert, Jr., Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company, Adams St. & Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. C. H. Murray, Asst. to President, The American Rolling Mill Co., Middletown, Ohio. Harold North, Indus. Rltns. Dept., Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Ill. M. M. Olander, Personnel Director, Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Toledo, Ohio. Frank. H. Rose, Employment Manager, Wheeling Steel Corporation, Portsmouth, Ohio. Edgar K. Ruth, Personnel Manager, The American Oak Leather Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Robert W. Sanborn, Industrial Rayon Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio. S. F. Shattuck, Vice-President, Industrial Relations Department, KimberlyClark Corporation, Neenah, Wisconsin. John A. Stevens, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, 208 S. La Salle St., Chicago, Ill. J. S. Stubbs, Personnel Director, Pure Oil Company, Chicago, Illinois. Floyd O. Tanner, Vice-President, General Motors Corporation, General Motors Bldg.. Detroit, Mich. L. E. Trowbridge, Curtis Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, Mo. R. G. Waldron, Personnel Dir., Hudson Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich. Herman Wechler, Vice-President, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. R. M. Welch, Asst. to Pres., The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Youngstown, Ohio. Harry J. Williams, Vice-President, Wilson & Co., Chicago, Ill. C. C. Winegardner, Vice-President, Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. R. E. Yocum, General Supt., Cudahy Packing Co., 221 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill. Howard I. Young, President, American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company, Paul Brown Bldg., St. Louis, Missouri. L. J. Zoeller, The Procter & Gamble Company, Ivorydale, Cincinnati, Ohio. PUBLIC INFORMATION PROGRAM1 EXHIBIT 5478 MEMORANDUM ON LABOR TROUBLES AND PUBLICITY CONSIDERED BY EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMITTEE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS OF THE UNITED STATES General Offices: 11 West 42d Street, New York City Law Department: Investment Building, Washington, D. C. EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMITTEE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS BILTMORE HOTEL, November 1, 1934. PRESENT: Messrs. Webster (chairman), Colgate, Bent, Lovejoy, Drew, Lewis, Carr, Harrington, Ramage, Melville; Also Messrs. Bardo and Sargent; also Mr. Lasher, President of the American Chain Company, was present as a special guest during part of the meeting. SECTION 7A The committee recommended that Section 7A of the National Industrial Recovery Act should be amended to read as follows, and that any labor clause of similar purport in federal legislation which might be enacted should contain the language of points (1) and (2) below: SEC. 7(a) Every code of fair competition, agreement and license approved, prescribed, or issued under this title shall contain the following conditions: (1) That employees shall have the right to bargain either individually or collectively through representatives of their own choosing and shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, or of any other person or organization in the exercise of their right to bargain individually, in the designation of their representatives, or in self-organization or other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection; (2) that no employee and no one seeking employment shall be required as a condition of employment to join or to refrain from joining, organizing, or assisting any form of labor organization of his own choosing. MAJORITY RULE The committee feels that it is inadvisable to attempt to include any specific reference to this subject in the present law or any substitute for the present law. In this connection the committee also considered the following suggestion for inclusion in the present law: "Every employer upon request of per cent of employees should at least once a year permit and assist his employees in the holding of an election at which individuals should be chosen by cumulative voting as the representatives of the employees for the purpose of presenting grievances to the management and/or conducting collective bargaining, and the selection of such representatives shall be free from interference, restraint or coercion by management or any other organization or person." The committee felt that in view of the changes suggested in Section 7A above general advocacy of such provision is unnecessary and might accomplish more harm than good. It was felt also that it tended to recognize the universal applicability and desirability of collective bargaining, and that this would be undesirable. 1 See pt. 17, pp. 7458 ff.; pt. 18, pp. 7802 ff. and 7827 ff. INSURANCE COMPANIES The committee considered in part the communication of August 24 (previously sent to committee members) from leading insurance company executives to President Bardo. On account of pressure of other matters, it was necessary to defer further consideration of this communication until the next meeting of this committee. PUBLICITY STATEMENT The committee considered a suggested publicity statement presented by the Association's Public Relations Department. Several revisions to the statement were suggested by the committee, and the revised approved statement is submitted with these minutes as Appendix A. LABOR TROUBLES AND PUBLICITY The memorandum on this subject submitted with these minutes as Appendix B was presented and carefully considered. After full discussion, led by Mr. Lasher, it was decided that since this referred primarily to publicity it should be referred by the Employment Relations Committee to the Public Relations Committee. Mr. Harrington was asked to contact with the publicity committee on behalf of the Employment Relations Committee. Respectfully submitted. (B) NOEL SARGENT, Secretary. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS OF THE UNITED STATES General Offices: 11 West 42d Street, New York City Law Department: Investment Building, Washington, D. C. [Not prepared by N. A. M. officers or staff-Never Adopted] MEMORANDUM ON LABOR TROUBLES AND PUBLICITY The plan here proposed has for its immediate object the curtailment of the power of craft unions, and ultimately to destroy them; also it can delay action on employment insurance, which is all that it is possible to accomplish at this time. It is obvious that craft unions can exist only through strikes. Neither employers nor workers can endure this form of civil war and prosper. They cost too much. Even if employers win an immediate advantage, the labor unions are the victors in the long run. It has been my experience that many employers would rather spend $100,000 to fight a strike than $1,000 to prevent one. The recent textile strike is an illustration. That could have been won in a fortnight or so, breaking the union wide open, without the loss of a life or serious financial loss. It ended in a draw that will cost the textile industry millions and those who use their products even more. Two major issues now confront the manufacturers, 7a and employment insurance. The only effective weapon in dealing with these issues is publicity. This doesn't mean just press agent stuff but what might be called publicity engineering. SECTION 7A Collective bargaining is here to stay. It cannot be defeated because it is sound industrially, economically and sociologically. In the hands of the craft unions it is a vicious menace even when it is not in evil effect. In the hands of employers and their own workers it is the most effective tool for preventing strikes and labor troubles that ever has been invented. If craft unions are torn down some machinery must be set up in its place. This would be what is now called the company union but it must be developed on vastly different lines than those now existing. |