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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS ROYAL MEEKER, Commissioner BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES ) BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS f No. 2 4 7 EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT PROCEEDINGS OF THE EMPLOYMENT MANAGERS’ CONFERENCE, ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY 9, 10, AND 11, 1918 JANUARY, 1919 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT' PRINTING OFFICE 1919 Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis CONTENTS. THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1918—MORNING SESSION. TRAINING LABOR EXECUTIVES. Pago. Opening remarks by the chairman, Ralph G. Wells, assistant chief employment manager, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del...................... 7 Remarks: Roland B. Woodward, secretary, Rochester Chamber of Commerce, Roches ter, N. Y .................................................................................................. 7, 8 Capt. Boyd Fisher, Ord. R. C., supervisor, Government courses, Wash ington, D. C............................................................................................. 8-10 W. H. Winans, employment manager, National Carbon Co., Cleveland, Ohio...................................................................................... %................ 10 Training of factory health officers, by Dr. Kristine Mann, health supervisor, Industrial Service Section, Women’s Branch, Ordnance Department, Washington, D.C........................................................................................... 11-15 Discussion: Dale G. Steely, general superintendent, W. F. Schrafft & Sons (Inc.), Boston, Mass..................................................................................... 15 Robert L. Wilson, assistant general superintendent, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pittsburgh, Pa.......................... 15,16 G. L. Sullivan, employment manager, Worthington Pump & Machinery Corporation, East Cambridge, Mass.................................................. 17 Mr. Lang, of the Crown Motor Co., Muskegon, Mich............................. 18 Government course for training employment managers, by Prof. Meyer Jacob- stein, of the University of Rochester.............................................................. 19-24 Presentation of diplomas to graduates of War Emergency Course in Employment Management, University of Rochester.....................................................« ... 25-27 THURSDAY, M AY 9, 1918—AFTERNOON SESSION. LABOR RECRUITING AND KINDRED PROBLEMS. Absenteeism, by S. R. Rectanus, director of employment, The American Rolling Mill Co., Middletown, Ohio................................................................ 28-35 Standardization of occupations and rates of pay, by Walter D. Steams, secre tary, occupation and rate committee, Westinghouse Electric &, Manufacturing Co., East Pittsburgh, Pa................................................................... ............ 36-42 Cof-t of living studies as a basis for making wage rates, by Royal Meeker, United Plates Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Washington, D. C......................... 43-50 I estructive labor recruiting, by William Blackman, director of labor, Shipping Board, Washington, D. C................................................................................ 51-54 L'estructive labor recruiting, by Charles T. Clayton, assistant director general, United States Employment Service, Washington, D. 0................................. 55-62 The ].resent labor situation, by Morris L. Cooke, of the Emergency Fleet Cor poration, Washington, D. 0 ........................................................................... 63-65 3 Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 4 CONTENTS. THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1918—EVENING SESSION. DESTRUCTIVE LABOR RECRUITING. General discussion: Page. Dr. Royal Meeker, United States Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Wash ington, D. C........................................................................ 66-71, 74, 79, 82, 83 Capt. Boyd Fisher, Ord. R. C., supervisor, Government courses, Wash ington, D. C.............................................................................................71, 72 Ethelbert Stewart, chief statistician, United States Bureau of Labor Sta tistics, Washington, D. C......................................................................... 72,73 Henry T. Noyes, treasurer, Art in Buttons (Inc.), Rochester, N. Y ............ 73 Mr. Elliott, of Boston, Mass........................................................................ 74T, 75 Peter J. Van Geyt, employment manager, Rochester, N. Y ...................... 75 F. W. Burrows, editor, National Industrial Conference Board, Boston, Mass......................................................................................................... 75, 76 H. E. Parker, employment manager, Fore River Plant, Bethlehem Ship building Corporation, Quincy, Mass........................................................ 76 Dudley R. Kennedy, industrial manager, American International Ship building Corporation, Hog Island, Philadelphia, Pa.............................. 76,77 Charles T. Clayton, assistant director general, United States Employment Service, Washington, D. C............................................. 77, 79, 80, 81, 84, 85, 88 Charles B. Barnes, director, Bureau of Employment, New York City........ 78 Robert L. Wilson, assistant general superintendent, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pittsburgh, Pa..............................................78, 79 Mark M. Jones, supervisor of personnel, Thos. A. Edison Industries, Grange, N. J............................................................................................ 80 W. H. Winans, employment manager, National Carbon Co., Cleveland, Ohio.......... .*............................................................................................ 80,81 L. Palmer, of Buffalo, N. Y ........................................................................ 82 L. S. Tyler, vice president, Acme Wire Co., New Haven, Conn............... 83 P. W. Kinney, employment manager, Gleason Works, Rochester, N. Y ... 83,84 S. P. Hall, employment manager, Morgan Engineering Co., Alliance, Ohio......................................................................................................... 85 Jacob Lightner, director, employment bureau, Pennsylvania Department oi Labor and Industry, Harrisburg, Pa................................................... 85, 86 Alfred Thompson, employment manager, American Brake-Shoe & Foundry Co., Erie, Pa............................................................................................ 87, 88 F R ID A Y, MA Y 10, 1918—MORNING SESSION. DILUTION AND SPECIAL TRAINING. Management of foreign-born workmen, by Helen Baron, director, Mayor’s Americanization Committee of Cleveland, Ohio............................................ 89-95 Discussion: Dr. Winthrop Talbot, adviser in alien education, New York State Bureau of Industries and Immigration............................................. 97-99 Ralph G. Wells, assistant chief employment manager, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del.................................... ................ 99 Capt. Boyd Fisher, Ord. R. C., supervisor, Government courses, Washington, D. C............................................................................. 100 Psychology of tlie Negro workingman, extemporaneous statement by Eugene Kinckle Jones, executive secretary, National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, New York City.................................................................. 101-105 Standards for woman employees, by Hugh Fullerton, service director, H. Black & Co., Cleveland, Ohio............................................................................... 106-111 Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis CONTENTS. 5 FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1918—AFTERNOON SESSION. SELECTING WORKMEN. Page. Classification of personnel in the Army, by Mark M. Jones, supervisor of per sonnel, Thos. A. Edison Industries, Orange, N. J ..................................... 112 -118 Women in industry, by H. E. Miles, chairman Section on Industrial Training for the War Emergency, Council of National Defense, Washington, D. C- - 119-129 Job analysis, by H. G. Kobick, superintendent of employment, Common wealth Edison Co., Chicago, 111.................................................................. 130,131 Job analysis, by P. J. Nilsen, of Arthur Young & Co., Chicago, 111............... 132-134 The Rochester plan, by James T. Hutchings, of Rochester, N. Y ................. 135-137 Discussion: Mr. Hutchings...................................................................................... 138 W. H. Winans, employment manager, National Carbon Co., Cleveland, Ohio..................................,........................................................... 138,139 Charles B. Barnes, director, Bureau of Employment, New York City........................................................................................ 139,140,141 A. A. Doucet, employment manager, Laclede-Christy Clay Products Co., St. Louis, Mo............................................................................. 140 Ralph G. Wells, assistant chief employment manager, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del................................................ 141 Herbert E. Herrod, president, Mahoning Valley Employers’ Associa