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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE
"Since we are co-operate on keropos defence, Monsieur Général, doubtless zetli naw revent the
of the British-ah plated stomach tokje resist the catértsd 07: zina the most terrible!
"London" Ergéem' Karvách
HE SAID NO TO
A
1962.
PAUL BAREAU, who ba
bas just made const-to-const tour of the U.S., tries to ams ver the question:
O
WHAT MAKES AMERICA TICK?
NE-SIXTEENTH of much machine here-power as Il la a simple and obvious, soon as the order book began hind the the world's popula behind the British worker. And proposition. But how often it is to sag productivity in his works, machine.
in which was already remarkably tion lives in the the American real Income per ignored and even denied
high, Improved still further... United States. This head is between 2 and 3 times Burope.
that of the Briton'. The flast
'When the word "competition" one-sixteenth produces more comparison explains the second.
comes up in discussion in ↑ America might be, called than a third of the world's
Britain we almost instinctively acy Mechanikation is a of the comparatively throat." In the United States it
ing on goods and services; It eTL-
the adjective "cut and rapid recent joys close on one-half of the
development of this continent. the world's income.
:
American Industrial
And a great deal of this The instinctive reaction of his stimulus and incentive la
pro workers was not to eke out the vided by the American; house, work, to go slow and to stave wife. A team representing the off the day on which unemploy- British internal combustion en meat might appear. On the gines Industrios which visited United States last year
cach
individual the
is always known as "healthy" work In that American tac wrote this in a unanimous re
There is a wealth of significatice
This Paint contntry grow, as she in this choice of adfectives.
Why should this bet was the question which occurred
to
Talk to almost any American and a light about competition
gicam some-
me time and again as frontier was pushed steadily there was always recently crossed and recrossed westward,
to conquer the vast expanse of the United more to do, more
than could be accomplished by will gleam in his eye- State
the number of available hands. slightly fanatical
The machine was the natural ally, never the enemy.
FORTUNE What explains this array of
From R. M. MacCOLL
Washington.
Tbject of conversation long.
lay us
:
Costly labour
wealth and industrial power, this torrent of production, this profusion of goods, this un- standard of high believably living?
Some of the explanations art
THIS bellef in the machine per- THAT well-thumbed-over sof-evident and need not de-
mentes all the people.
An The United States have been
Industriallet s nahamed of an favoured by nature with lavish dowry of natural re- outdated plant; he re-equips and varied retools at the alightest provocn- Sources. A fertile soil, climate, provide all the food tlon; he ploughs back into his need-and a good business far more than does his the people
British counterpart. oil, COAL
sulphur,
and this all the basic
What would you do if you were suddenly left a fortune?"-got a remark- able answer from middle-
aged John Schmidt, a bank margin
forenin
D
teller, who lives quietly on his £35-a-week salary industry are there in abundance; creates a permanent incentive
North Bergen, New Jersey, with his wife and mother.
He was bequeathed. £107,000 by Miss Rhoda Kuhlmann, his life-long friend, who died last month in her palatias house in Hoboken, ged 49-and John hay turned it down flat.
- Labour is costly
to mechanisation. I
times,
a
tory
tried to make sure that port: when the dismissal notices came he would not be among recipienta. Therefore, he doubled his efforts.
Gulf bridged
the Пе
14
"The American standard sustained by the enormously greater variety of goods avaus. able to the American than to the. British shopper,
"In the
competition' for
higher standard it is the Ameri- woman who is the pour-
He will harangue you on the beauties of a system which VERY worker knew, too, that can
In striving for higher keeps people and firms and if orders were dropping off maker. nations efficient; and if you are that was all the more reason for wages the American worker has European it is more than getting costs down so that his unquestionably prepared himself will turn the firm might get a large share of unto the battle and the trumpet likely that he sermon against you and explain the orders that were going. The sounded by his wife does not that the mess Europe is in and worker in America tends to give an uncertain pound.
with
"This can be said without dis- the assistance. It has to receive identity his own interests from Uncle Sam are the results those of the firm for which he
viewed from the standpoint of of the monopolies, cartels and works. The gulf between em- paragement. On the contrary,
ployer and
employce is not so as it is feather-bedding wo tolerate.
apparent
in Britain, Industrial productivity, the either socially or in the matter fluence of the American woman
is distinctly valuabic.". of promotion.
Ganging up
because they
to
This Dense of belonging to the employs him does not
Arm
that emz
£20 a wook
LOST count of the lectures and for what may be missing,
appear to have weakened with The higher technical education rubber for example, American
on competition I had the growth of trade unionism inventiveness can in many cases of the engineer, technologist, in- listen to during one month's tour The unions themselves are Bred
dustrial lay-out expert, tias in the United States, provide synthetic substitutes,
by this competitive spirit. When is high standard of living is nowhere more striking, in The American economy thus reached heights unreached else- Business men do not compete work falls off in one firm the European eyes at least, thon in
natural cohesion and where. has n
like competition unlon does not demand shurt
the ownership' of motor cars.. bulance,
The Massachusetts Institute of for its own sake, Leave them to time for all, but takes the Inius. The gleaming limousine. parked
their own unfettered devices tive in pressing for the dismissal outside the
house of friends. I .some workers so that the was visiting in Washington, be and, even in the United States, of
on working full longed to the woman who came they will tend to band together others can go
the flrm itself in daily to cook and give u,hand. to keep newcomers out of the blast business and agree to charge the emerge successfully from its public a price aufficient to main- difficulties. tain the feet emclent among them happy and prospermis. U.S. way cheaper cheaper to buy and run. In
What is 'needed to stop this
Vast market.
is Its immense
THEN thore
Not only does he not want it -he is reluctant, even to talk about it. deep personal reason för not accepting," and adds wistfully: British Isles could fit over 30
He says he has "scale: an area into which the In the world,
ASKED by reporters if the lady, daughter of a wealthy wool merchant, had ever been in love with him, Schmidt re- plied: If she was, she certainly kept it to herself. But I guess she kind of liked me."
Schmidt's lawyer, watching hig client sign ✡ release from any claim on the catute, said he was, as mystified as everybody else.
leave it at that.
for
and
She was paid the equivalent of £20 a week, so no wonder, she could afford A car which Ja
America than in Britain.
No sight is more incredible to THE rise of labour unions hus
not gone hand-in-hand with European eyes than the huge A great car parks, outside American face well known American tories.
Technology is the innermost chamber of this temple of tech- nical education. There is noth- ing quite like it anywhere else
But it is in the worker's atti- the "I am taking an awful amount times; a population of over 150 tude to the ranchine that
million; all served by a single contract with other countries, of kidding over this.”).
currency, with no handicaps of including Britain, is most mark- tariffs or foreign exchange dim- ed. It would be false to claim kind of ganging up against the that there are no restrictive consumer is an informed public culties to hamper trade.
This is a vast market in practices in the United States, opinion which will rouse itself which all the advantages of but they are the exception, not when I is attacked and rout the restrictive practices.
and There is much, a monopollets.
枫 body of pubile opinion in the manufacturing concern, with mass production can be seened, the rule.
But it would be wrong to
and factory in An American who was. pomit- - The Industrial worker seems. United States. It is embodied subsidiary
decided In the Inw,
after the war ing out one of these car parks the Sherman Act, Britain, Other countries, Russia and to understand that there is a
me said: "In Russia the China,
example,
have direct link between the security which has repeatedly been in- to install in Britain an exact to
layout of workers may own the industry, one of their major processes in but the managers own the cars, equally abundant resources and of his job and the work he puts yoked in the cause of trust replica in size and greater
which into it; between his curnings busting, вреля within
the
American factory Ameri- Here it is the other way round." their trade can move, freely and the profits which he helps
The Act is not absolutely can experts and engineers were And yet they are poor countries his firm to make,
waterfight but it cannot be sent to Britain to install and by British standards; they are Ho
con- ignored. That great American
the plant. is productivity
Ready to move aged FISHER,
34, destitute
supervise American acous in a manner unknown Judge, bby
Mr Justice Holmes, The process had to be, ad- resigned from Washington's standards.
in most other countries, except called it a "brooding omnipro justed to British trade union police force not long ago, ex-
requirements. After three years FINALLY a word about the attributes the Americans have Soviet worker. He delights in slant reminder
thet
speed and the easo with his wife and seven children on which others haven't got or handling machines the more and combinations "In
than twice the which industry, capital and a cop's salary.
haven't got to the same degree? complicated, the more impressive interest and against the law. of this product in the British and adjust themselves to chang.....
against the publle man-hours to produce one ton workers in America can move of trade' Now Fred is In more trouble,
would list them in this order: they are, the better. He goes to gaol for three months They "regard "the machinb ́ ́as
successful use of this Act la factory than in the American Ing circumstances. The averago and gets aned £350 for violat-their ally and not their
The one of the chief reasons why
American workers in
ters in this American finds it easier to
to pull energy. ing a new law which says that They believe in competition
free enterprise, in the United arm are paid about three times up his roots and move to a new as, the guarantor of
States is so much more enter- the British wage, yet it is setting than the averago Briton. and the main spurto
prishig than it is in Europe.
cheaper to
to produce this material fornia than in Pennsylvania?. It Are there better jobs in Call- have They
an
the American than In British plant. These higher a Pittsburgh steel worker will wages сад be paid because think nothing of moving over to American productivity is in this Los Angeles, a mere 4,000 iniles, particular case between two and bringing the family over na and three times the British. soon as he has made a home
ready for it.
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and prepared to work hard to the workers of an orderly Jay- walk about in the rain as
that demand.
out in which the of ambition every the They have
individual workers
antidote. to exposure. to atomic rays. Certain of the citizens industrial workés thinks ha reduced to a minimum. peevishly point out that in Cali-carries the gonerni, manager's formin it is never supposed to baton in his knapsadt..
rain.
SIKH, about to be drafted
into the US Army, writes
to President Truman asking H
ho
-Machiné cùlt.
pre
The modern textile mills · of New England and of the South make the average Lancashire mill Book like an overcrowded
slum
Are
Buyer gains
COMPETITION
reaches 119 fiercest struggle in retail trade, Price-cutting campaigas are sometimes: woged with "the ferocity of jungle warfare.- Let Macy's, one of the great popu- far stores in New York, offer cut
men
and
of
needs
111
more
So simple
the
дя
Are the textile mills in New England showing signs of ox cessive age and costs? Then shift them to the South, 2,000 ERE then is another very miles away, where they will be
simple proposition; that high nearer te
cotton and where productivity and high wages there is cheaper labour.
together. The Americans The Americans are ruthless. to understand this in- with themselves. They accept stinctively.
the
challenge of any problem On the European alde of the that can be solved by technology," Atlantic many of
satil
and ingenuity close our eyes to this relation be
machines and
Lat
the ever-present, evidence- localised difficulties (and
ΤΟ
ACC
prices on a line of goods
adversaries, Gimbels, will The trend Is towards more to them by a few cents. can please keep his hair THEY believe la the Ameri T long after he is in uniform, in can way of life, a compound machines, more automatic de
"Ideal" of all these elements: pride in vices, until tho
The struggle will widen until conformity with his religion,
Truman passes
the letter production, competition, a high reached in a modern factory most New York stores will be along to Army headquarters, standard of living. a general such as the Aluminium Com sending out spies to report on of America's plant in the latest move of the enemy, pouse for reflection atmosphere of vigour, mobility ons, where in a bay 200 yards Tic-tac and, after Д and a swift check-up with the and expansion.
will simpl the tween what we put into a job take the therefore, never mis British and Indian embassies, the Army, says yes. But it ad-side to this medal. Let no one suprising a double how of no suits from the store opposite, still tend to regard a higher frictional unemployment which
There is, of course, a reverse ung only two men could be seen latest prices for shirts, collars, and what we take out of it. We of
* Unpleasant?
to standard Disturbing Vises the Sikh to keep its letter think that all is well in this cada cuines the whole scene providing an impression of
of living us the frult the American icens, offern, of permission handy to show to boven of high productivity,
trade? Unethical? Masbe, of politieat rather than of gleaming inhuman efficienY.
Those are the symptoms of his C.O..
But Iet us ignoce the
bat the consumer gains, and so economic action.
constant endeavour to adjust blemlähes for the moment and That is doutor number one in does the most efficient store. focus on the credit ade of the the high output and conse-
activity, wel industry and trade to changes in This spirit of competition come and account -- an
Hihat. makes quently high standard of living touches the individual worker. may be in producing a more America Bick"
of the United States:, this recog- When in America. I was, dis- equitable distribution of the First, the cult of the machine, nition that man is better off cussing the folling-of a busi avathuble goods does not pro- Behind sach American when he can harness a machine ness with
a manufacturer of duce more goods. you are through for the day. I worker there is 21⁄2 limbs as 'lo labour for him.
radlo sots. He told me that as As was, being driven, the
was this approach to econo“. other day through the I mic problems which made suburbs
of South London my it possible for the United States companion pointed to the forest
to mobilise for television masts rising from in the last war the rows of suburban houses total war, pour out the torrent "That's where the monty KOČE,"
of arms which equipped the Allied armies, feed these Allles was his disapproving verdict..
and at the same time give tho American civilian a higher standard of living thân ho
THE HUMAN TOUCH! Ono of of the characters in a play just opened on Broadway drinks a brand of whisky, called Old Factory Whistle --- ono biust and
Zero Hour In
Templer's Drive
Kvould come back, to us via form; of; rubber · bonts,”
planter told me.
enough.
For
political though it demand.
The housewifo
Are
they happy?
the commissars and give them- From R. W. BAXTER
one selves up.
And some of Ching's Singapore. cannot boonomically produce
joyed before the water no cle comrades were out in bad Rod Templer, is now busy on
Does the capacity to achieve. SIR Gerald Templer's drive tuber at that price, after locat
areas telling villagers to spread C‡UCH 'a disparaging thought to crush the Communist es un make both add mot flere for a big bloodicas vir word through the jungle that an would never occur to an
N
this kind-of miracle alte achievo they can ends ory. He that terrorists in Malaya has now in by cutting wages and that of the Bodywas very many cary life awaited those who had American. He might ask. "What, human happiness?
bad
but
takes you've only got one set?”
That question
me.well among lyfred of life, in the hinge. become a race against time, probably incans unzcat
would never question the pro- outside the strictly economic Zero hour will be when the the hitherto mainly loyal rubber But most dare not give up for
workers.
fear of their fanatical lende
priety of anyone, whatever his orbit of this article. The com- full effect of the month-old Malaya's hard-pressed plant and also because they do not
Incore scale, possessing a radio petitive pace at which Ufo Malayan depression: is felt er after four years of the trust British promises of falled He has received the mochanlood household equip and often does, make hatod of Ching Kuen has reason to be set, a motor car, every kind of lved in the United States can, by hundreds of thousands most nerve-wracking war in tenient treatment,
and habited of rubber estate workora in faced with trying to make
the country's history-are now.
lion's share of the £1,500 gift ment from a refrigerator to un aled from the Malayan Government electric cocktail shaker.
I have sometimes quoted he shape of cuts in wages. living from the depressed in officer Ching Kuen, led twelve as a reward for arranging bur- Tho American's appetite for my American friends the verac
of his comrades" "to a police. Tenders. The rest
Thored by the goods
and gadrote of this from Ecclcsinates: Belter lea station, and over since has been two of his aides, world is unlimited. And he handful
quietness than willing to discurs means of get=". He is eating better food then
Work prepared to :, hard to satisfy;""both the hands full-with-travail-u!! ting many times that number to at any time for years, and be these needs.
vexation of spirit, But ban a come out of jungle, hide-outs, a bed to sleep on instead of The goods are there in that
dustry
however,
man's life and
to
can afford quietness
It la' almost certain this: sli "lead⋅ tó ·Increased" zupport · for
TRAMANMARA the Reds,
Many are talking of quitting, The price of rubber on the hare is resentment about the Singapore market has Just US, Government's subeldy to
can convince bear no "expert only tickets.
ம் touched the lowest point dos gynthetic, rubber, which, means the other day and heard what jungle, It ho more than two years 83 sumalt competlilon. But except he had to any Ching Kuen gangs that such pleasant things All that is needed to buy them be saved from poverty- want Malayan cents a pound, then for a few Chinees deniers, no offered to lead a big, campaign are in store for them, a big in- is money in the wage packets and Communism; In which so Hero la ono of the most power much bas to be done in og litila Maloyn's vast estaten, burdens one advocates ecarling, males to to persuade the half-starved crease, in surrenders, le on the
gal, Incentives and stimul be«""time?" od with expenditure for detone, rubber-hungry Red China. - "It Hed-rank and Ale to defy their way,
remoler, mot Ching Kuan a crudo elqurtag in the hotlo shops and in profusion. They would the late
SHAMAs a world, that has tort,