Improvements respecting social and industrial betterment shall, after approval by the president, be carried out through the regular company organization.
9. Hospitals and doctors.
In camps where arrangements for doctors and hospitals have already been made and are satisfactory, such arrangements shall continue.
In making any new arrangement for a doctor, the employees’ representatives in the camps concerned, the president’s executive assistant, and the chief medical officer shall select a doctor, and enter into an agreement with him which shall be signed by all four parties.
10. Company periodical.
The company shall publish, under the direction of the president’s executive assistant, a periodical which shall be a means of communication between the management, the employees and the public, concerning the policies and activities of the company. This periodical shall be used as a means of coördinating, harmonizing, and furthering the social and industrial betterment work, and of informing employees of the personnel and proceedings of conferences, boards and committees in which they are interested. It shall record events pertaining to social and industrial activities, and be a medium for making announcements with reference to the same, and for diffusing information of mutual interest to the company and its employees.
11. Cost of administering plan of representation and of furthering social and industrial betterment policies.
The promotion of harmony and good-will between the company and its employees and the furtherance of the well-being of employees and their families and the communities in which they reside being essential to the successful operation of the company’s industries in an enlightened and profitable manner, the expenses necessarily incident to the carrying out of the social and industrial betterment policies herein described, and the plan of representation, joint conferences and joint meetings, herein set forth, including the payment of traveling expenses of employees’ representatives when attending joint conferences and annual joint meetings, and their reimbursement for the working time necessarily lost in so doing, shall be borne by the company. But nothing herein shall preclude employees of the company from making such payment to their representatives in consideration of services rendered on their behalf as they themselves may voluntarily desire and agree to make.