188 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES 
in Buffalo. In the early part of 1928, however, an agree- 
ment 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 expe- 
rience had been had to demonstrate the cooperative effi- 
ciency 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 organi- 
zation 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 man- 
agement, 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, condi- 
tions there are to remain as at present in so far as organi- 
zation 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 com- 
panies 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