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What a leader of the cotton spinning trade unions, Mr. Alfred Roberts of Oldham, Lancashire, described as the "second indus- trial revolution of Britain's cotton trado" was initiated at a con- ference on production methods
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The problem of Britain's cotton industry
more. to produce Buyers aro clamouring for fis cotton in many parts of the world and the home market is still starved. The cutting of costs and the competitive struggle for mar- kets is still largely a matter of the
future.
Cotton Industry
By R. H. FRY
Experiment has proved that, have their work checked by union, this plan leads to a very large in- | representatives. This was per- haps the crowning achievement of crease in output per worker, n rise in inbour earnings, and a fall many months of discussions be- in labour costs. But you cannot|tween management and labour.
More Looms Per rush the worker in the North of England into a method he does not know. You have to persunde him.
Weaver
дя
the new methods of utilising labour has now become a recog- ́nised part of the plan.
hase
In the weaving section of the industry more progress has been made than in the spinning mills. Here the big short-run advance to be made by getting each wenver to agree to work more loome."
Mothods have been des vised which would make this pos- sible without extensive re-equip- ment and without increasing the strain on the workers.
Again the unions gave an 05- Con- Furance at the Harrogate That process is at dest
There is a new`aliitude among ference that they would use their showing signs of success.
employers
well as among influence with their members in For the unions it was proposed workers. Heuls of cotton firms favour of more looms per weaver Cotion production logs for beat the Harrogate Conference that described at Inrrogate how they if the managements would col- hitel started re-organisation laborate with union Inspectors nt. hind demand because the spin-
the reorganisation of work should
management Arst. They made an early store-before any nus+ ning and weaving mills have not be done by independent manage-
created among got enough workers. The tale has ment consultants, and that union sure of knowing the answers be-picion has been
fore they put the questions to the workers by stop-watch tests been often told in the last three inspectors should be allowed u
of which check the consultants' work. their workers.
or other experiments years; during the war the cotton what und Jaimed to be the 408-
They discovered also that the they have not been told. One of "POTRET?""""""WONT TOUTE TRINITION"""" factories that were set up in the Wer to winnlag the confidence of success of any deployment scheme the best-know
on the lower sultants in the cotton
tion industry To this conten- lepotted
Erently textile, areas to absorb the exist the operatives,
mill manager, said that the opposition to stop- C. Henniker-Henton, management, the
to ing labour, transport, and indus-on, Mr.
Director of the Marter Cotton the superviser and the fore walch tests was just beginning trial services.
He had been invited by Spinners' Federation, replie man. who had to understand yield.
accept the plan before die unions
meet- to address promptly that the owner were and fully prepared to employ in- could be introduced. Trainings in order to explain the
und to ing of supervisory staffs in methods of work measurement.. dependent consultants
The cotton mills were largely shut down. At the end of the war the inunition factories turned to making engineering products of all kinds and kept their work- ora. The cotich milla have try- ing to attract fresh labour anch have had some success, but pro- Eress in slow. Increased output In the short-run must come from Arenter individual effort.
Ways of raising productivity have been devlund and testert; in
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entered Tito, titular head of the Yuga-llowever, it must be recognized when the Red Anhy
Southern that it was the force of Yugoslav Yugoslavia four years ago. slav (Russler いま Slave) took the world by storm opinion that compelled him to was then that the first grievances when he openly defied Morrow follow this line. Tito, hero of wete registered, even
Red Army and the Cominform earlier this the terilla war, idol of a hard highest of levels.
decided that commanders were inclined was no storm in a Belting peasantry teacup, and now the breach has he could not now desert them for treats the
Anall town minority. to widened that it will take more4
year.
This
leaders
a number of mills they have been applied with spectacular success, But great majority of cotton mills have so far held back. To find a way round this obstacle, than the "Flow of the Vedka" to clearly remembered the grilling 7 was the purpose of the Harrogate close the gap in the Communist days of Conference, which brought to- ranks, gether nearly a thousand direc- lors, managers, and tratic union representatives of Britain's cotton Industry.
Importance of
Persuasion
At the end of the war mest
As
with
They
Yugoslav gverilla scanty respect. distinctly
remember there the Partisan struggle early days for I was serving when was the pessants, who,
British
Army Liaison Tito with
Partisans Telling the Kremin where they after all representing 80% of the oficer
In the flat fertile p'ain North of get off is something of a rare ex- catire population, took the train.
Tito reembors their privationa Belgrade when the Red Army perience. Rarer is 15 and their sufferings. I can too. rolled in from Rumania. vive. After the noise of falling
vivid, unforgettable days. brickbats behind the iron Cuitain Vividly 1 remanter a wounded were
ne subsided; one is left wonder-caravan, a mile of human misery Quite understandably the Parti- mere painfully making its way to sans expected to be placed on a ing whether Moscow
waspital vin a British air lift that high pedestal and praised for astounded than the Western World. While the quarrel is still innkes the Berlin one plemy by their post sacrifices. On their in the melting pot Tito and the comparison. In two nights over part the Red Army were glad to people in the cotton industry Yugoslaves have shown a quick 500 eritieni caves were evacuated per thought that the only way to raise recovery from the surprise attack richt under the Germans' notes, be in the first friendly country
They
are also recalls that while this since their long trek frem Sial- While gathering their productivity was to put more launched on thear.
was going on the majority of the strength for the battle for Bel- machinery Into the mills. Some sticking to their guns and even townwerkers remained at their grade the Russians were relieved re-equipment has been done an.ighting back with a tenacious a good dent is going on all the nuss that is traditional in Yugo nder their German masters. that they could momentarily relax. So although Tito has fallen from This they did so well that they But Britain's lexto ma- slavin, time.
Cominform favour, 15 million forgot to pay court to the Par chinery industry, though among Communtats and non-Commun-Yugoslavs have shown they prefer tiaans who had been looking fer- the largest in the world, cannot
ists throughout the world are
ward to this day the most_mo- re-equip the great cotton industry asking the same question. What
mentous in their history. Com- overnight. particularly when the will happen to Tito? Normally
rade Ivan's rolaxation was consi- machinery side hus itself to ex- any Communist pronounced
and dered indifference, port a large proportion of its out- failure is immediately removed, put.
He appears in a cloud of hos to dust Moderation was never a characteristic of Moscow, and Tilo has come in for more than his fair measure of arid oppost-
ence.
thanks towards
thes
a
By
ingrad.
ment EDWARD HOWE
n
con-
a
sequently bitter disappoint- At their first meeting between Meanwhile it has been found
Is and the Russians, the Red that rapid progress in produc-
Army Colonel d'splayed far more. livity can be achieved by moder-
Interest in meeting me, the first nising the flow of work through
tion. Instead of swallowing the their own mixed Southern. Slay and only Britisher he had met. the mill rather than its equip bitter pill prescribed and mixed rocktail to the Malotoy variety. Desperately trying to capture the ment. Labour utilisation has be- by the Compaform, however, Tile, As the Yugoslavs have decided not Russians sympathy and Interrat dome an important field for re using precisely the same language to climb down from their ind-the Partisans began singing one of wearch and development. This and the accepted Marxist argi-vidual and national perch the the National songs. Cursorily the subject held the centre of the
will have to sick Colonel stopped them with a wave stage at the Harrogate Conferents, says "I am not giving in Cominform
and I will show
so-other means to unseat Tito. Re- of his hand and demanded cialism is batteryou that
Alists, the Russions know that tango or waltz. This heighten- One of the greatest difficulties It is significant that speeches forcibly to rentove Tito now would ed Partisan disapointment still In applying schemes of "redeploy made in Belgrade recently mark-only elevate him higher in Yugo more. Now that the Sesile's arr ment" is the suspicion of the ing the fourth anniversary of stav estern. This is the last reverting to their methods of workers against stop-watch tests. Yugoslavia's liberation should thing the Russians want to do at shouting instructions, the first The head of Britain's Cotton In-stress the help that was given this time. It would be a danger-
Fer-wounds are beginning to fester dustry Central Research Organt-them so generously by Britainous precedent for other satellite again. The early disappointment sation (The Shirley Institute), Dr. and America: Until now the Yugo- countries.
is confirmed once more, making F. C. Toy, has come forward with slav leaders have been grudging
The Soviets main hope for the Yugoslavs more determined the proposal for a
a scientiae men- thele
which they are probably planning than ever to tread their own path surement of tasks. The indepen- two countries. There was,
dur-
lo a pro-Ceminform rising. They towards Socialism. dence and high standing of the ing these hard days, plenty of would like to "ummary" (unmask)
THO
the man of action, is on Shirley Institute is universally verbal encouragement from Rudlo the Marsist Tito. But as he the warpath once more. This son ems, rallied non-Communists to his of a blacksmith is forging a new but the supplies of pranks during the war because of Communist steel not 'tempered in down stan-ammunition, clothes,
food and urgeatly needed
medicaments his national stand, so now he is Moscow. He is hammering his cussing these in advance of tests came from the British and Ame- rallying Communists in a similar sickle to a more convenient shape with management and
ricans, guided to the right spots emergency, Plainly they have and texture on the advice of his by British liaison officers number-stated that they wil not play own people. The horseshoes in Past experience has shown that ing some thousarvis and sprinkled orchestra, Cominform composers forged without the assistance
second fiddle in the Cominform
ominform Tito's blacksmith's shops will be it is little ane trying a re-organi- sation scheme
workers throughout the mountain strong orches on the
complain that the Yugoslava are that the name Tito is derived the Kremlin's bellow Some say holds held by the Partisons. without taking them into the
Docs this belated recognition playing discordant tunes "that managerial confidence at the mean
Yugoslav (you start. The division of jobs in the turning to the West for help? skyism, leanings towards capital-" between them
that Tile Is once again mack of "anti-Sovietlom, Trot
(this). with the word and cotton mill and the rates of pay The British have now stepped and grandice-ism. With a mighty direct order "You do this." to his
Ist States, inordinate ambition
token' as rend, for Tito always used the el by long tradition, and the most by Cominform "sanctions" and roll of the drums, the Yugoslavs enlightened managements have are to help run Yugoslavia's iron dismiss
Actions speak louder than these
etaft. decusations been trying for the last two years and steel industry. But Tito's "ked allegations devoid of a words, and this broad shouldered to obtain the unions agreement heart is still in the East.
Croat who once sat in the Krem- He is shred of fact,"
lin as a disciple of Stalin has bo-" to new work plans under which as much a Communist as ever, the tasks would be more special-but it does seem that he is Yugo- of the political situation. Many Communist Party. His
Yugoslavia is taking fresh stock come, the "Martin Luther" of the Ised and the ancillary work slav first. This may be a crime find that the shock of the Russian You do
order would be done by small groups of
this", are ringing cut In Communist eyes but to the impact is not of such recent and the Yugoslay people are re- helpers moving about the mill, Yugoslave it makes him a saint. origin but dates back to the time sponding..
recognised in the industry; anʼi Its scheme for
for laying do
dards of measurements and dis-
mnde a considerable impression.
attached to each task are hallow-
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