188 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES

in Buffalo. In the early part of 1928, however, an agreement
 was negotiated with the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employees of America. This
arrangement was to apply at first to new properties taken
over by Mitten Management, but after sufficient experience
 had been had to demonstrate the cooperative efficiency
 of the Amalgamated, the Philadelphia and Buffalo
properties might be unionized. The real test was to be
the productive efficiency of the union. Moreover, the
union was to participate equally with management in the
productive gains arising from cooperation. The salient
features of this very significant undertaking are given
below, as taken from the agreement itself :

Mitten Management reiterates its desire to deal with
organized labor whenever and wherever any union organization
 will undertake to cooperate for increased economic
efficiency. . . .
Mahon and associates, speaking for the Amalgamated
Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of
America, being also desirous of cooperating in economic
accomplishment and of aiding their membership to a 50-50
participation in the rewards rightfully paid to men and management,
 in addition to the present wages paid, have now
come to an understanding with Mitten Management, Inc. . . .
So far as Philadelphia and Buffalo are concerned, conditions
 there are to remain as at present in so far as organization
 activities are concerned, it being desirable that the
situation on these properties shall remain as at present in
order that the standard of economic excellence of these companies
 now being operated by Mitten Management be the
standard by which union performance in cooperating with
Mitten Management on other properties shall be measured.
When cooperation between the Amalgamated and Mitten
Management has developed to a point where the results are
equal to those obtained on these properties, the matter of