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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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thisresult is very largely due to the men themselves, and its not less extraordinary than the success of the corporationitself, since it has, during the five years of its existence,collected from its members $92,799.84, paid out $14,699 indeath benefits, and $44,392 in sick benefits, furnished itselfwith $14,748 worth of entertainment, in the way of recep-tions and balls, and accumulated $18,443.34, which themembers of the association, of their own motion, have in-vested in the securities of the company that employs them. I linger on the consideration of this particular aspect ofthe organization of the Metropolitan with satisfaction, forthe reason that I think it peculiar to this corporation alone.It is unique in the idea underlying it, and is based on theindividual employee instead of on the corporation. It is anevidence to me that, notwithstanding the inevitable irrita-tion that must necessarily arise at times between employersand employees, an appeal to manhood and to the individ-
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400 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVin. No. 14. uals better side will, in the long run, be successful. I haveseen very small results from efforts at combining men in asingle employment under the patronage of their employers,and this has been due, in my opinion, based on my experi-ence, to the fact that there is in workingmen a spirit ofresistance to patronage of any kind. There is no com-pulsion exercised on any of the men employed on theMetropolitan property to join the association, and mem-bership in it secures no kind of inununity. It in no wayafifects the relationship between the company and its em-ployees, which is based upon the contribution of efficient

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