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Show ----~ .l,)\ :: ,§ ®I z ),' § , ( ..., I l&-~\J , . ... ... ?....( ........ ~-·-~. -~· -~· ..~f w.. -~ w)_ ~-.~: . VOL. II ·No. :X:XIY •••••••• e ••••••• e. k I::::: / e. e. c, ND - 1 CO. 726, CCC, GREENVILLE, MO. e •• 9 e. 0 • • • .• . ~. RELATIONS OF EMPLOYER & El\IPL OY.,:m O ••• 0. • • f e. e e. e , · /0 t '0/ JULY 27, 1935 e I e. t t t. t RALEIGH HAYES VISITS PO.PL.AR BLUFF POWER & LIGHT PL.ANT •• The problem of promoting the cooperation of labor and capital may I was down at Poplar Bluff sunwell be regarded as the most vital day and visited the Power and Light problem of modern civilization . Plant. I visited the Water Works We read a great deal about conflict first, as it was more handy. between capital and labor. As a In this building, there were matter of fact, either capital or three pumps which operute by means labor would be of little value with-of electric motors. They are · out the .other, so that instead of pumped with a pressure of about thinking of ihem as enemies we seventy-five pounds. There are, ought to think of them as frietidly also, .several reservoirs through cooperators in production. Labor which the ·water is pumped for fili~ least productive and most poorly t e ring. In one end of the buildpaid in countries with little cap- i ng was the chlorineator which had ital, and capital brings the small- a lnrge dial, showing just how est return · in places where there is mu ch chlorine was going into the not sufficient labor to use it water. profitably. Conflicts do come and From the basement of this buildabuses arise which are harmful to ing I went through a large tunnel, capital, or to labor, or to both, leading to the Power Plant. There bu t th e s e rvi ce thsy rende~ o~ch are ttr00 la r1e ~t e~~-1r ~~e n r'~c ~~~c other is r1mch grenter than the harm.generat ors i n. this building . :Gac n The same is true of the relaone is driven by a steam turbine that tions between employers and employ- operates under two hundred pounds of ees. There are, however, some very steam and runs at a rate of thirtyserious causes of conflict between six hundred revolutions per minute. the owners in industry and those They run only one mf them at a time who work for them. While some con- a nd hold the others on reserve. The flicts are inevitable, mn~y harmh ailers that furnish steam for the ful features of those which contin- t urbines are fired by an automatic ue to occur are unnecesso.ry. stOlker that handles coal in lumps, Why is there conflict between the lumps rang ing in size from threeemployers and employees? The most quarters of an inch down to nearly fundamental cause of contention be- dust. The fire boxes are furnished tween employer and employee is the with forse drafts which aid in the fact that the employer's desire for heating. profits conflicts with many of th e This plant has been operating desires of the employee. The emsteadily f or some time, only being yloyer knows that the loweF the shut down t h re o time s in the past (cont. on page 2, col. 1) (cc~t~ on p a ge 3, colc 1) I |
