The Daily Worker

"PLEASE, MISTER ROCKEFELLER!" IS TIMID PLEA OF HIS COMPANY UNION REPRESENTATIVES IN N. J.

(By The Federated Press)

NEWARK, N. J., May 14.—Three speakers chosen by employes' representatives from Bayonne, Eagle Works and Bayway refineries of the Standard Oil of New Jersey dared to criticize—politely—the management-employe conference plan of the company. All three asked for an extra week's vacation for ten-year service employes of the refineries. Such workers have been getting one week off per year.

Wants a Regular Boss.

Thomas O'Brien, employe representative from Bayway, agreed that the company's original plan was not so bad, but that the management has been drifting away from it to the disadvantage of the workers. He mentioned the disturbance caused by the turnover in the personnel manager's office: that official position has been held by four different people in five years.

Frank Spears of Bayonne cautiously urged the longer vacation but took pains to add that everyone should "understand that our deliberations are based upon mutual consideration of the rights of all concerned" and that the management-employe conferences were "not to be regarded as a signal for calling out opposing forces in battle array." Robert Haggas of Eagle Works questioned the efficiency of a 65-year old boilermaker who had spent 40 years at his trade and suggested that the age limit for pensions was a little too high!

Dinner With the Manager, Ah, Boy!

The occasion of the employes' remarks was the eighth annual dinner preceding the joint conference of representatives of the three New Jersey refineries. Company officials bragged about the conference plan, the amount of money spent in sick, accident and death benefits, etc. C. J. Hicks reported for the company that the 1924 labor turnover was less than 25 per cent, using that as an argument for the success of the company union plan. He stated that from 94 per cent to 98 per cent of the employes participate in elections of representatives for these conferences.