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 being operated under the American Plan manned by clean-cut and loyal Americans of a high order of intelligence." Other company superintendents have in public and private described the company union "as an excellent buffer against organized labor."

Mr. B. H. Sinclair, an officer of the Midwest Refining Company, told a conference of employers in 1924 why he thought their representation plan, installed in 1919, had been such a "wonderful success." The anti-union role of the company committees is illustrated in his remarks:

The Chief Engineer of a large machine manufacturing company also expresses this common object of the company union:

The same engineer goes on with brutal frankness to show just how the committee can be used to suit the employer's purposes:

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