June 28, There opens to-day at Girton College, Cambridge, the first three-yearly congress of the International Association for the Study and Improvement of Human Relations and Conditions in Industry. The title strikes lone as rather appalling, So too, it must be said, do the names of the subjects' listed for dia cussion. But for convenience the title has been shortened to 1. R. L, and careful study of the literature sent out abend of the congress shows that the Associa. tion has a very interesting and, one, hopes, useful purpose. seeks to bring together, voluntarily, on a common meeting. ground, members of all the industrial world, to examine and improve their relationships with one another. - Twenty-seven countries are represented in its and the speakers at Cambridge during the next six days will fnelude men and women well: known for their work on various phases of modern industry, from jAmeriea, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and, of course, the British Isles. Psychology, "the human equation" so called, counts for much in industry nowadays. One would partie jeularly like to hear the paper on: "Ta the Worker's Job the Centre lof His Life as a Human Being?" For that really goes to the root of the whole issue between master and man, Only ninety years ago women. worked like draught animals in coal-pits, tiny children sat for endless ' hours in the mine galleries just to open and shut doors as the trolleys passed through, wages were largely, paid in kind at extortionate valuations, and workers lived in hovels in which no one then or now would keep swine. Such were the first-fruits of the great industrial era. These horrors fare still a vivid memory among.
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