WORKMEN AND INITIATIVE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9639, 14 January 1903, Page 4

WORKMEN AND INITIATIVE.

THE VALUE OF SUGGESTION TO EMPLOYERS. NEW YORK, Nov. 24. The Moseley commission of British labor delegates has been favorably impressed by the co-operation existing between employers and men m America. At Dayton Cash Register Works, which they recently visited, there is a suggestion box for Line workers, *uid rewards are regularly paid for the best ideas. Four thousand ideas were received m one year, a«d 2600 adopted, to the great beneiit of the concern. Men are promoted according to merit, the leading employee haying started as office-boy and reached his present post before he was thirty. At a large nickel works men making valuable suggestions are rewarded with gifts of stock m the company, £1000 being often given. One large Chicago store pays its workers 4s apiece for e-very suggestion of definite use m improving the business. Employers agreed m assuring the commission that they have found the most useful improvements to come from tiheir own mechanics and workshop hands. By everyday experience these see better than outside theorists weak points and possible improvements. The British delegates say that if workmen m English shops made suggestions m similar fashion they would usually be snubbed for impertinence, or would have the credit of tlieir suggestions taken by foremen.