"The American Employer" Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Dear Sir: The first four copies of "The American Employer" have been received and carefully read. I was more than pleased indeed with the contents. I have devoted the past ten years almost exclusively to organization work among both employers and employees and am acquainted with most magazines, local, state and national, published for the purpose of bringing about a closer relation and better understanding between all parties concerned. I feel however, that your magazine fills a long felt want. To be sure, if we want to educate employees we must reach the employers first. In fact, if you can get the employers as a class interested in organization work not only for defense but for positive constructive work, most if not everything, is won, for if the employers are not willing to show the workmen the right way, then they are to blame if others show them the wrong way. Leading men of public affairs here and in Europe have admitted to me that they stand aghast at the great modern disease, that is, &pathy and inexcusable indifference. Whereas condemnation does not cure anything and whereas you cannot saw wood with a hammer, you choose the right and only way, that is, to create sentiment through a systematic, consistent and insistent campaign of education among the employers of the country. If there is anything I can do to help you to introduce your magazine among the employers of this city, your wishes shall be command. Hoping that you will succeed beyond expectation in your laudable and patriotic undertaking I remain, JHB/.J. Véry sincerely yours, Wm. JH. Boekker. Secretary. |