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can gain his confidence and move liini through passion and 

 prejudice. 



So far as the librar_v is concerned, a large proportion of the 

 laborers would have been better contented and received as much 

 benefit by having a reading room adjoining a billiard room, card 

 room, and smoking room, than in the well equipped library with its 

 fine furniture and stately volumes. In this respect the ideal plan 

 overreached the condition of the laborer, and conseqnently had its 

 effect upon but few. And finally it may be said, that had the company 

 taken the laborers into partnership not only in the plan of improve- 

 ment but in the actual building of the town, asketl them to 

 assist in its control and management, and given them an 

 opportunity to obtain stock in the business and to become sharers 

 in the great enterprise, doubtless the plan might have realized the 

 hopes of the founders. Not that things would have been done 

 any more nearly right, or in better form than when accomplished 

 by the company itself, but they would have been done to some 

 purpose. But as it is, the model plan of Pullman for the harmon- 

 izing of the interests of labor and capital, of employer and em- 

 ploye, and the elevation of the laboring population to a higher 

 standard of life, cannot b(^ said to have been productive of much 

 permanent good. Whether, in the future, plans will be so modi- 

 fied as to overcome the defects of the system remains to be 

 determined. 



A more successful plan of harmonizing the interests of labor and 

 capital has been instituted In' the firm of Proctor & Gamble whose 

 manufactory is located at Ivorydale, a small town in the suburbs of 

 Cincinnati. The company employs about 500 laborers at the 

 factory besides another hundred in the Cincinnati office and on the 

 road. The average wages of men is $10 per week; of women, 

 $4.75: of boys, $3.50 to $7. The wages are considered only fair, 

 yet the method the company has adopted of dealing with its 

 employees has been such as to prevent any discontent, strike, or 

 revolution. The firm was established in 1H37, but the plan of 

 profit sharing was adopted in 1887. It provided for the distribu- 

 tion of the profits among the employees after allowing a reasonable 

 salary of $4000 to each member of the firm who was actually 

 engaged in conducting the business. The laborers were to receive 

 the same proportion of the profits as the total wages paid bore to 

 the total cost of manufacturing and marketing the product. I'or 

 example, if the total amount of business done was $100,000, the 

 amount of wages paid $20,000, the amount of profit made $10,000; 



