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week the entire factory force meets with these representatives in order to bring all in touch with each other, and also that the factory laborers may appreciate more intelligently the needs of the agents and of the public.

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Scattered through the factory are placed a number of autographic registers which are placarded "suggestions and complaints." For a manufacturing company to thus invite complaints from its men is a novel industrial feature. Complaints cannot be prevented by foremen, and that petty tyranny once so prevalent finds no survival here. Hen any employe, be he janitor or foreman of a department, office boy or general agent, may make- suggestion or enter a complaint. These in time receive attention from committees having charge of the department of work to which it pertains, horn the Advance Club, or from the factory committee, or from the proprietors. Prizes amounting to $1,000 annually are declared for the best suggestions made during each period of six months. Some of the best and most valuable of the enterprise, both mechanical and admin-

istrative, have been adopted from suggestions 34. d. or in