WILL LECTURE ON SECRET STUDIES AMONG WORKERS

Whiting Williams, who is probably the foremost authority on employee relations in the United States, will deliver an address on the subject, "What is on the Workers Mind in 1931", to the members of the Business School Club on Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock in Room 100.

The meeting is one of a series which is held annually to provide talks by prominent economists and industrialists. Williams was formerly vice-president of the Hydraulic Press and Steel Company of Cleveland, which position he abandoned to become a specialist in the field of employee relations.

While he was still with the Cleveland company he disguised himself as a laborer and worked in his own shops to find out more about his employees. His discoveries were so interesting he continued the research with the same methods in other factories. As a result of his work, he published several years ago a book entitled "What's on the Workers Mind". Soon afterwards he abandoned his position with the steel company in order to devote his whole time to the field of personnel. At present he is working especially with the United Fruit Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He has recently applied his unique methods to investigating the relation of prohibition to the laboring man. He has come to the conclusion that the Eighteenth Amendment has for the most part been beneficial to the employee.