Chester Murphy Culver served as the general manager of the Employers’ Association of Detroit (EAD) from 1916 to 1952.  Long before he took that position, however, he was intimately connected to the people who created the EAD in 1902. 

When a small group of employers gathered in December, 1902, to form the Employers’ Association of Detroit (EAD), one of their top priorities was to create and staff an employment (or labor) bureau that would provide them with reliable information about the workers passing through their shops.  “If a man is an agitator and trouble breeder you will know it when you hire him (and that is a good time to find out,” noted Henry Leland.  “If he is lazy, if he is a...