This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...striving to get such arrangement as this for other purposes for a long time. At present, it would seem from their attitude that they consider it the best policy to push the formation of arbitration boards and to strive to make them permanent after the war. It would seem likely that their campaign to be represented on local care committees may be in part a political move toward this end. The arbitration board idea has been very successful in Berlin, where there are boards in the following industries: Woodworking, breweries, stone masonry, building trades, saddlery and leather work, transporting, coal dealing, express companies, textile work.76 The woodworkers and printers" have organized arbitration boards on a national scale.78 Also the war office has constituted such boards in war industries such as metal work. This is a trade where there was formerly no cooperation at all between employers and employees. The arbitration board idea has a certain amount of public approval. In a few towns, public contracts are not given to firms which do not abide by their decisions. TM Verhandiungsbericht fiber die Tagung fiir Kriegsbeschiidigtenftirsorge in KHin, Berlin, 1917, p. 129. (ReichsausSchuss der Kriegsbeschadigtenfiirsorge. Sonderschrlften. Heftl.i "Zeltschrift flir Krflppelfiirsorge, Leipzig, 1915, vii, 289; 1916, ix, 244. "Lflbecker Lazarett-Zeltung, 1916, ii, 5. "Korrespondenz fur Kriegswohlfahrtspflege, Berlin, 1916, ii, 111. Attitude of Cripples to Employment. There are no statistics to show to what extent the ideal of the volunteer workers is realized and the cripple is reabsorbed into the mass of the people. Dr. Biesalski states that from 90 to 95 per cent are thus reabsorbed. The general statement is made by most writers that the diffi...
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