: EMPLOYEE REPRESENTATION 
this “training” is merely a device by which the management seeks 
to control the future actions of the elected representatives. The 
experienced employee representative not’ only sits in the meetings 
but takes a very active part in the discussions. 
At these meetings in addition to the booklets mentioned, the repre- 
sentation plan is studied thoroughly in detail both through the use 
of the printed plan itself and through a simpler “questions and 
answers’’ pamphlet which is designed to bring out all essential details 
of procedure which the employee representative needs to know in 
order to perform his functions properly. Copious use is made of 
illustrative material in the form of cases which have been handled 
in the past, thereby giving the new representatives definite precedents 
covering their duties under various circumstances. 
In the Dennison Manufacturing Company in 1923 a joint com- 
mittee prepared a booklet entitled, “Works Committee Maxims.” 
This was a handbook for members of the management and the 
general works committee, intended to describe in concrete fashion 
the relation of the works committee to the plant management and 
operation and the duties of management and employee representa- 
tives on the various conference committees. A further step was 
taken in this plant in June, 1925, when the general works committee 
adopted the report of a special sub-committee recommending definite 
procedure for training new employee representatives. The program 
recommended was as follows: 
As soon as possible after the works committee election have the divisional repre- 
sentative call a division meeting of the representatives elected for the coming 
year, both new and old. At this meeting he should go over the important points 
in the works committee constitution, ‘Works Committee Maxims” and the Em- 
ployees’ Industrial Partnership Plan covering particularly the following: 
1. The general purpose of the works committee. 
2. The type of matters which should be brought up in the works committee, 
and those which should be brought up to the division. 
3. The attitude which representatives should have in conference committees 
for working out jointly with the management the right solution of a 
problem. 
4. The relationship of the E. I. P. plan to the works committee and to the 
employee. 
5. The relationship of the works committee representative to the employee 
in the department. 
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