Royce Howes

Name: An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly
Author: Royce Howes

An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly (1954)

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“An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly”, published in 1954, is a work by Royce Howes. It explores elements such as strike, garnish molding and management.

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Royce Howes, An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly (1954)

“ We are not thinking of just the pay which the strike cost Chrysler workers who participated or whose jobs stopped temporarily because of the strike. Nor are we considering primarily the cost to the corporation in production and dislocation. And while we are not forgetting all the merchants of goods and services whose cash registers rang up less money because so many were out of work, that isn't the cause of our primary concern, either.
What troubles us most gravely is the long-term damage to Detroit as a place to prosper, whether you are a production worker, management man or merchant. ”

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Royce Howes, An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly (1954)

“ Names need not be named, but anyone casually acquainted with Detroit's latter day industrial picture knows that just such relinquishments of management function have had a prominent part in the departure from this region of certain industries, and the abolishment of thousands of jobs forever.
It is the condition which drives industry from a place. It is prominent among the reasons why some industries have not been able to meet the challenge of competition. ”

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Royce Howes, An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly (1954)

“ Accumulatively, affairs such as last week's strike hurt Detroit's reputation. And when its reputation goes, hope of an ever-building prosperity goes with it.
Industries do not like to locate, or even continue, in a place where the trivial can cost so much. Workmen don't like to establish where instability is so great that a triviality can cost them a week's pay—or more. ”

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Royce Howes, An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly (1954)

“ Our purpose in discussing the incident of the Dodge strike is not to castigate any individuals or groups as such. But we do believe it represents something which Detroit can ill afford. And our interest in this city's welfare requires that we cite to Free Press readers the implications and the portents involved.
What they point to is something neither Detroit nor any other community can afford if its people and its institutions want to maintain a competitive position—and we are thinking of men and women who must compete for jobs just as much as we are of industries which compete for markets. ”

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Royce Howes, An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly (1954)

“ There is every reason to believe that unless unnecessary discouragements to industrial growth are presented it will attract more industrial wealth, offer more jobs and increased security.
But what is reflected in the strike and compelled shutdown which put almost 45,000 men and women on the street is a definite and emphatic discouragement. Such exhibitions can turn enterprise from Detroit despite a great many factors here which normally would attract it—as they have attracted it in the past. ”

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Royce Howes, An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly (1954)

“ No such blow to the whole economy of Detroit should be struck over such a microscopic issue.
The weakness and danger in the union position, as we see it, is that it endeavors to assume management prerogatives in trying to say how a plant shall run; what production methods shall be employed; how much patience must be shown employes who cannot or will not do the same job which has been demonstrated as reasonable elsewhere. ”

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Royce Howes, An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly (1954)

“ It can only lead to fewer jobs.
Firm retention by management of the right to manage, on the other hand, makes more jobs. The plants where work is steady and employment high are those where management—even at the cost of riding out strikes—has kept a firm grip on its right to say how things shall be done and what standards those who ask employment will be expected to meet.
We believe that realization of this fact of life is extremely essential to Detroit. ”

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Royce Howes, An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly (1954)

“ What labor shall receive in wages, what hours it will work, what benefits it will receive are properly matters for the union in collective bargaining. So are working conditions free from avoidable hazard to safety. ”

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Royce Howes, An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly (1954)

“ In auto shops the strip which frames the insides of your car's windows is called garnish molding. Screws hold it in place, and of course there must be holes for the screws. How many of those holes can reasonably be drilled in eight hours by Dodge assembly line men was the seed of the disagreement which last week made almost 45,000 Chrysler Corp. workers idle and payless. ”

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