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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1951.
Daily Doodle
PUBLIC OPINION POLL
DAILY
Common Mom
Q:- "Which poll do you think will win the
General Election before it happens?'
A-Oh, the DAILY DOODLE'S-if you let 'em juggle
the figures like when they prove nationalization's Bailed and Winston can build 300,000 houses a year.
PAPER VICTORY
Worth Copyright. En verangemens with Dally menta
The cure for
STRIKES
RITISH industry hus made fine strides since the war; but I give this
WATTI=
By
**
+
SIR GEORGE SCHUSTER, Industrialist, banker, and chairman of the Government panel on Human Factors Affecting Productivity
We haven't done enough. We have to wake up. We must intensify our efforts to improve productivity, there is a hope that the fear of
otherwise we shall starve.
Our population of 50,000,- 000 can live only by selling its manufactures abroad in exchange for food and raw. materials.
In France, 38 out of every 100 adult workers
لا
Better to buy it now, madam...!
THE ARMS DRIVE PROVIDES. SALESMEN WITH A TOPICAL TECHNIQUE.........by Vincent Evans
HE young man in the I really ought to do without? big store, the one with How far, in his quiet way, is he the pin-striped trou- high-pressuring me? sers, high white collar, and In my bewilderment I ran to The Government neatly tied tie pulled me the expert.
view is this: "Partly sales talk. quietly aside and gave me Partly genuine. If everyone acts the snapplest piece of high reasonably, there will be enough presauro salesmanship I'd of all essentials to To round. heard since 3-jumped on a Prodictions of Budget increases plane in New York two are obviously sheer guesswork." months ago.
But sceptical
With confidential hand over his mouth, screening his words official advice, for what I from other and lesser customers,
ja worth,
"Don't 15: he mustered: "Take it now, sir, stampede." But there are going Can't guarantee delivery in a to be shortages, and are going weck's tine. And, besides, to be more increases in prices. there's the Budget. We're ex They are going to occur mainly which the pecting 33 percent tax on goods in the goods for ilke that."
Americans are stockpiling the raw materials,
you can
And, like a Yankee innocent abroad, and anxious to refurnish Obviously, madam, my London flat, I bought. It expect the price of woollen than taken me three weeks goods, for instance, to go even London shopping to find out that higher. And maybe cotton. You there's pin-striped, white can expect goods made of cop- collared, confidential gentleman per, brass, and lead to get in every store. For the new shorter. slogan is "Salesmanship by Shortage.
But, say the Government ex- pents, prices will begin 10 "Electric fires?" he asks, stabilise when the American "Well, sir, that's the last one stockpiling demands are met. like that we've got. I'd take
now, sir, Can't say when So next time when the con- we'll got the next lot in. It's fidential salesman pulls me aside the steel, sir. Getting very and whispers: "Buy it today, sir. short."
It may be gone tomorrow" well, I'm going to be a bit more sceptical.
"Coffee percolators? I'd buy it today if I were you, sir. Five pounds isn't dear for the metal you're getting there, sir. It will be £8 10s. when the Budget: comes along. Can't guarantee
is to create the spirit of partner anything today, sir." ship.
Baffled
THERE'S
tho
about glass and ("We can't order it, sir.
story
china
We've
And in a great London store This requires an entirely new there appears the notice: "Buy putlook on human relations in your furs now. Prices may soon industry, so that all concerned-be out of your reach." employers, union leaders, and ranic and dile workers-come to ragard themselves as construc- tive partners in an all-out effort to increase industrial efficiency.
We have a long way to go before that is the general spirit got to wait until they, deliver"); of Industry; but the experience television sets ("They warn us of a few progressive firms makes orders are going to start coming me believe that it is possible to through slowly"); tinned chic- achieve,
ken. ("Meat's so short, everyone I believe this is something wants it.") which British industry can do But before we try to persuade better than any other. people to do this, management
I do not belleve in long hours' the sick the old basis for dis- of work. I think 40 hours of cipline in industry-wil die, and hard manual work is enough a new basis of reason be firmly for ordinary people. Neverthe established.
less, in times of crisis like the present it may be necessary to tail. Jonger.
DUTY OF THE EMPLOYER'S
Accustomed as I am to Ameri➡·
can advertisers bombarding me
produce food. In America Just fight to get the most out of so that every working hour be- industrial employment the basis on't buy a television set, I am j
18 out of every 100. In Britain fewer than fivo in 100.
No country is so depen- dent on imports as ours.
And increasing popula- tion and industrialisation in overseas countries are rem
Trade union leaders now realise that they can no longer someone else's pocket, but that the only way to improve their members' lot is to increase their productivity.
Their difficulty is to get this
across to the rank and file,
As for employers' association,
and workers should see what If we can succeed in creating can be done to improve efficiency such a spirit then we can make with the assurance that I will he a paychological wreck if I comes as productive as possible, of a good life.
At least 80 percent of Britons
now baffled by the modest-but
are working well. Most men like answer to
And we shall have found the insistent-British shop assistant,
Communism. Once
How far are the shortages to do a job well
again we shall take the leader-genuine, and how far is he using ship of the world.
the threat of them to blackmail ~~(London Express Service) me into buying something that i
Why, strikes?
then, do We have
It is not enough to put them
they must give thought to small down to Communist agitation. thing more than merely pro- Communists only got a hold if tecting their own interests." there is a genuine grievance.
They have to consider how work
ducing the quantities of private enterprise. can food, etc., that these best in the pubile interest. countries can sell to us, and
In the nationalised Industries, forcing up the prices.
the Socialists should give a lead in creating good human re- lations. They have certainly not done that yet.
TO PRODUCE
AND REARM
The problem facing us is:-
Can we continue to sell enough of our goods on
In general, men become dis- contented if they think they are not getting a fair deal compared with other people.
CUMBERSOME MACHINERY
If they seek a remedy by strike, it is almost always be-
Many firms in private industry are for ahead of the nationalised cause the machinery for hand- industries in progressive policies for handling human relations,
-(London Express Service)
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Darling, you were TOO marvellous, and showed
us all just how right
Mr. Been in!!” ·
REWS -- SEQUEL · TO THE MURDER POR CIL
Don't be misled because 'volcano city' is quiet
TEHERAN.
ling human relations and settling ON'T let anyone ever talk to me
wage. questions is too cumber- some. For this the trade union
organisations are often as much favourable enough terms and employee agreeing to see to blame the employers' side.
to
I believe that by employer how they can operate together
Do
volatile, again of Forsians as emotional people. From what I can see they are more atolid and more stoic than Eskimos.
Just imagine London with
SEFTON
to get the raw materials more expertly, and getting rid Dockers have been particular- keep our factories of all restrictive practices, there ly strike-prone just because it is
be an 30 per dimcult to real working and the food to cent increase in Brimin's pro- relations in dock working the Prime Minister murdered by DELMER keep our stomachs full?
ductivity without any necessity the men are always shitting howled down by the Commons, for longer working hours.
Can we produce enough to do this and at the same time to rearm?
The answer is, only if we work more efficiently.
UNIONS AND EFFICIENCY
Lever Brothers
have been able to put up productivity by 30 percent just by improving We are facing a new work methods. world. In order to
Tubo Investments have report- vive as a great nation we ed an even bigger advance. must evolve an entirely There have been many
other new' outlook on relations cases, too.
sur-
a political assassin, the Cablast
from one employer to another.
who refuse to allow anyone to But we hear too much about speak, the Treasury so empty strikes. Taking a broad view, that the Army, police, and civil our workers have been extra- servants have been warned that ordinarily reasonable during the they can expect only a third of
We have been their salary next pryday. past five years. 10 times freer from strikes
All that has happened here, than during the five years fol- lowing the 1918 war.
and more.
goes back to the capital. where they bet on who'[]
be the next
to die,
and the country from progressive deterioration to anarchy.
Such determined action cannot be expected from Hussein Ala, who, at the young Shah's urgent request, has taken over Premiership with parliamentary
approval.
SECOND: In the
clamour
the
face
of
for oil the
demagogue nationalisation-in which Communist underground is act- ing as a highly competent pace- that maker. It is certain Parliament will adopt this muicidal measure when it comes 'before it.
Altornative
WHATEVER. Imellomti0n there
WH
that the Soviet will gain Yet when I arrived back in enormously. in influence. Nevertheless, I agree that we
a week
may be on the part of the now approaching a very Teheran-after only diflcult, time.
away from it in Bagdad-I found More than that, there is an more sober-minded" to whittle the airport and the town as excellent chance that this
down the measure-by restricting We are in for a period of calm and self-possessed as ever. strategically vital oll-producing it to underground oil resources between worker and em- Nothing is more important rising prices and rising wages.
area, sitting on the highway to and leaving production and pro ployer.
than that trades unions should I am not so frightened of this Cafès are as crowded as ever, India, might be sucked help. Wessing machinery in the hamis
with young co-operate in this eficiency as some people are.
men drinking ten lessly into the receptive maw of of the Anglo-Iranian Company and talking politics-"They are its great Soviet neighbour.
the Moslem devotees and the Communists will not allow this. botting on who is to be murdered next," guessed a Feralan friend
This means that the country of mine. F
might find itself faced with the to pay 8 things stand today, Persia's alternative of having
Parliamentary of committoo more than £800 million com has adopted the all nationalien pensation to the company, or ton proposal which Rammara of throwing Heelf into the arme of the only Power which ap-" had opposed,
practises: the
We can succeed only if drive instead of the two fighting They should have their own OLE; AGENTS - DOO WELL." CONU each other they can create emciency experts, as they do in
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"GET RID OF", .../THIS FEAR
IT MAY BE PROSPERITY
Night spots are playing, the usumi tangos and rhumban.
Official mourning for the murdered Premier stopped after: a perfunctory two days.
(Mourning? The Mol Dovoless Movement, one. 01
Suicidal
a partnership leading to America, and themselves force Provided it does not go too
laggard flrms into line. the highest productivity.
fast, a period of rising prices Hitherto the attitude of the a period of prosperity. British anions has been, rather It makes people bellova in to protect the weaken brother the future, and be enterprising. and so that he does not get lefb behind.
Judgod by proâts, British In- dustry is prosperous today. But But the day for this concen- I think there is still a substantial travelled some way along tration on minimum standards margin for really suitable whose mombers killed General British Ambedor, Sir Francis „Shepherd, in' a special interview the road.already.
the man to make as much as he job. puiis together. What, we been allowed to hold a monster vs before; his murder, bad UT here in Potala, Hospite bas gone, We must encourage pay packets if everybody on the Barmara, the Premier, has even with the Premier only, a Lowry
I
Can we do that? think we can.. We have
Workers must get rid of can the fear that if they work better they will work them solves out of a job,
cannot afford in bigger pay packets not ready better production.
we hood a new race of Tobe-
the NCO of Induntry. They must be trained in I believe that the current-talk handling people. They must be about workern being-hindered kaders who. can take
by lack of Incentives
Our cursele that they responsibility.M
GENERod; but I'm worried have good memories for recent survey of large about the smallness of the sma
kample group of Bellish Indus- ration. bad things especially for tries showed that only two-nobs Those doing, hand, physical the years of unemployment of, foremen had; undergone. and wage cute.
It the Bull wmployinent of to- received more than ARY AND FOOLIOMs for ten years school education.
labosir will feel the "ni skjects" of
demonstration of triumph and exaltation in front of Parlie ment building.
Helpless...
BUT donite Toberan's
pearedco of plàcid squonimity, the, aliuality” la, about” ̈ne: as it could; ba.
Razinara's roadstance had the full support of Britain.
The
of expropriation with-
out compensation.
The fanatics
called his attention to the con active Goverment counter- cern with which the British measures, there is nii Government regarded the pro- copanding Commitmiat posal.
ground, well backed by fanatical untie Worten / nationaliste Abead as I see it the posilmouring, for the liberation Sion, fa this:
The "country's, Oil;
FIRST 35 There. prospect
vernment belor fosnet
-Go I do not believe that' the