The personal relation by jd rockefeller

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The

Personal Relation
in Industry

BY

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

NEW YORK
1917

MAR 15 1917

ADDRESS

DELIVERED AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY
ON THE OCCASION OF

FOUNDER'SDAY
JANUARY ELEVENTH

I917

i

The

Personal Relation
in Industry

I AM glad to have this opportunity
of speaking to you men, numbers
of whom will be the future leaders
in industry.

Heretofore the Chief Executives
of important industrial corporations
have been selected largely because
of their capacity as organizers or
financiers.

The time is rapidly coming however
whenthe important qualification for such
positions will be a man's ability to deal
successfully cind amicably with labor.

The PERSONAL RELATION

Yet how to do this is a subject which, I
fancy, is never taught or referred to in
the classroom.

Like knowledge of the problems of sex,
than which no department of life is more
sacred, vital or deserving of full and
ennobling instruction, an...