PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST IN INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS
The MAGAZINE has been requested to give publicity to the following announcement:
"The National Industrial Conference Board offers a prize of one thousand dollars for the best monograph on any one of the following subjects:
"1. A practical plan for representation of workers in determining conditions of work and for prevention of industrial disputes.
"2. The major causes of unemployment and how to minimize them.
"3. How can efficiency of workers be so increased as to make high wages economically practicable?
"4. Should the State interfere in the determination of wage rates?
"5. Should rates of wages be definitely based on the cost of living?
"6. How can present systems of wage payments be so perfected and supplemented as to be most conducive to individual efficiency and to the contentment of workers?
"7. The closed union shop versus the open shop: their social and economic value compared.
"8. Should trade unions and employers' associations be made legally responsible?
"The Committee of Award is composed of: Frederick P. Fish, of Fish, Richardson & Neave, Boston, Mass., Chairman of the National Industrial Conference Board.
"Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, President Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
"Henry R. Towne, Chairman Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co., New York City.
"The contest is open without restriction to all persons except those who are members of or identified with the National Industrial Conference Board.
"Contestants are not limited to papers of any length, but they should not be unduly expanded. Especial weight will be given to English and skill in exposition.
"The copyright of the prize manuscript, with all publication rights, will be vested in the National Industrial Conference Board.
"Each competitor should sign his manuscript with an assumed name, sending his true name and address in a sealed envelope superscribed with his assumed name. No manuscript will be accepted the real authorship of which is disclosed when the manuscript is received by the Board, nor any which has been previously published in any way.
"Manuscripts, to be considered in the contest, must be mailed on or before July 1, 1919, to the National Industrial Conference Board, IS Beacon Street, Boston, Mass., marked 'for Prize Essay Contest in Industrial Economics.'
"The right to reject any and all manuscripts is reserved. The Board may, however, award honorable mention to several manuscripts and arrange for their publication in full or in part at compensation to be agreed upon between the Board and authors."
