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Excerpt from Collective Agreements Between Employers and Labor Organizations in Massachusetts, 1916 This report, which is similar in general plan to a report1 issued in 1912, has been prepared for the two-fold purpose of bringing up to date the subject matter of the earlier report and Of indicating, in so far as this can be done by statistical comparisons, the extent of the growth, during the past five years, of the practice Of adjusting industrial relations between employers and employees through the instrumentality of joint agreements. It is an established fact that this practice of settling industrial contro versies which inevitably arise has proved mutually advantageous to both parties concerned, and that by promoting, in a very large number of cases, the principles of conciliation and arbitration has contributed greatly toward industrial harmony. While the establishment in all trades of a system Of collective agreements between employers and employees would not wholly solve the labor problems of the present day, many of which are due rather to a general spirit Of industrial unrest than to any specific cause, nevertheless the general adoption Of such system would undoubtedly result in greatly minimizing friction and in rendering more stable and calculable the conditions under which industry is carried on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.