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Labor’s Codperative Policy 165
Rival unions defeated the attempt to secure unionnagement
 codperation when this plan was first
ached for Philadelphia in 1911. Without disninating
 against union men, however, the plan
.tked in that city for sixteen years prior to the
ent two-thirds vote by the union that made it a
n for organized labor.
Like the somewhat different sort of management
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in the case of its
'pmen, the so-called “Mitten Management” plan
tifies its cooperative agreement with organized
or on two grounds: first, organization is needed to
tect the rights of labor; and second, labor organd
 for economic efficiency has the greatest power
public and private good.
oth systems freely provide union representation
management, and agreement to share fairly any
sequent benefits.

European Labor Dogma Reversed
Bettered industrial relations are mentioned by the
ting European delegations investigating Ameriindustries
 as one explanation of the growth in
* prosperity. Here the workmen have awakened
the fact that improved methods of production are
benefit to themselves as well as to the owner and
public. In the new labor compacts and in the
on banks, laborers have become capitalists. This
ontrary to the European industrial dogma, but it
ms to be winning, because it is based on sound
nan psychology and philosophy.

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