ABSTRACT
PLANT PUBLICATIONS, or employe publications, are a logical outgrowth of modern economic and personnel conditions. Time was when almost every industrial organization was small; back in those days the head of the concern was an individual whose time was more or less equally divided between his office and the plant. These “shirt-sleeve” days had a tendency to breed a healthy intimacy between the head of the business and individual workmen. It was a two-track comradeship which made it possible for the “boss” to come out to the bench and talk things over with the workman; or it made it possible for the workman to come to the office of the boss and talk over matters of mutual or individual interest. Such a condition was more or less ideal, but as each business grows, such intimacy is broken up by a force of circumstances which demands that the head of the business spend more time in his isolated office and traveling. It is a regrettable but incontrovertible fact that the end of this intimacy usually marks the beginning of labor trouble.
