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THE REAL CAUSE OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
HIGH WORKING COSTS. LORD WIER ON TRADE UNION. TYRANNY.
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playment and demaration Taken 3 together they constituted substantial items, and their abolition would involve no loss of earnings or reduction in pur chasing power.
Taken along with in- creased hours they would effect a subs stantial reduction in the cost of a British working hour without affecting the contents of the worker's pay big on Saturday.
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Lord Weir was the principal guest at a luncheon given at the Hotel Victoria on October 19th by the British Engineers Society, in connection with a conference Lord Weip-went-ou-to saymikazalatian. on the state of the industry. Mr. Nevile to wage rates:-"I regret that reduë- G. Gwynne, «president of the society:tions in these were chosen as the first presided.
Lord Weir asked the engineers con- centrate their attention on two factors -Ramely, that countries who are able
to buy are not buying from us; and that our prices are regarded as artificially high, and in the expectation of reduc- tion customers at home, in the Empire, And abroad are restricting and postpon- ing their demande.
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INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
SAILINGS, SUBJECT TO ALTERATION
KOBE via MOJI HAIPHONG vis FOTROW SHANGHAI via SWATOW HAIPHONG
'BANGKOK via SWATOW STRAFTS & CALCUTTA SHANGHAL wa SIKATOY SANDAKAN MANILA
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"LAISANG * ...Sun.. 37th Nov., D'light.
LOKSANG Sna,
27th Nov. 30 .. "HOPSANG" ....Saa.
27th Nov, Digth "WINGSANG" San, 27th Nov, 10 am.
CHUNJANG Tue, 29th Nov, D'ligat. KWAISAN...Tues., 20th Nov. 3 ... HANGSANG". EL. End Dag. Dlight... HINSANG
2nd Deo, Noon. 2nd Dec., 1.M.
TOENSANG.Fri,
step towards cost reduction. Naturally, CALCUTTA LINE:-Thi Lme affords regular sailings to. Calcutta, Panag ana
I have to qualify this by saying that this is a question for each industry, because the restrictive conditions apply to some industries more than to others.
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MANILA,
BANGKOK
anxious in regard to further wage cut SHANGHAI ting. It destroys the purchasing "power and should be regarded as the one step in deflation which requires thu gravest consideration. If the abolition of restric. tive conditions were now discussed with the trade unions in a spirit of frank- HAIPHONG ness, and an agreement was reached, any Whatever may be the handicap of exchange, of frozen credit, or war dis further wage rate reductions should be BORNEO
viewed in association with the cost of location, there is (he proceeded) a de-living, abbject, of course, to the poa- finite amount of foreign trade available sibility of drastic economic difficulties but we are not getting it. Someone else intervening to prevent this.
Infinitely worse is the fact that there "Since the Armistion the controlling TIENTSIN is a definite amount of home trade avail-authorities on the costs of production able, but we are not getting it and some- one else is. Let me give a single example have been the Government and those who have led trade union policy. "It is obvi- of each case. Belgium took the recent ous that control should have been exer order for Chinese locomotives and rail-rised by the two real authorities, the ing-stock, and under to-day's conditions in this country, I fail so see why Bel. employers and their men. The Govern ment have practically abolished their gium should not take the next Chinese control. Those who guide the workers' order. Again, during the last nine polisy have not. The industrial per months we in this country bought formance of the country is now a lament- £19,000,000 worth of iron and steel from able one. The Budget of 1992 will prove abroad.
Infinitely more serious and it so, and the Budget of 1993 will con- more significant is the fact that, during firm it. Labour as a political movement September. 1921, we bought more iron
looks to the Government to revive trade. and
steel from abroad than ever we have They will be disappointed, because no done in the past history of our country, Government can revive trade On the Let me ask those who are supposed employers and the workers lies the main to lead us to answer the following ques responsibility of grade restoration, and tion. Which is the best statesmanship, on their combined performance employ to grant British credit or British gunrepent depends. I feel that you must die- antees of credit to a foreign country charge your responsibility as employers yes, even to a British colony, to exable by telling the Prime Minister what you it to L
purchase from Glasgow imported honestly belitality to your industry, and by asking him to trust the workmen of the country by telling them the truth. Our workers-have-never yet failed in judgment en big issues straightly put before them?
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steel, or to tell the British steelmaker and his workers that these credits and guarantees will be withheld until the steelmaker and his, workers can arrange between themselves to produce that steel at home and give the necessary employ- mat?
The Labour Party's programme for unemployment-which differs from any programme I ever had because I always had a programme for employment calls on the Government to provide either work or maintenance. Apart from the underlying fallacy that a Government can ever carry the community on its buck, in distinction to the real truth that the community carries the Government, such a suggestion would apparently work out as follows Under it we will have local authority relief scheme in Lanarkshire giving unproductive and inefficient employment to miners, iron- workers, and labourers, working along. side closed pits and closed iron works, while Glasgow harbour is fed with vesels bringing in imported foreign iron, smelted with foreign coal That is the type of the ectual and purblind polley which appears likely to emerge from the manner in which one hears the Govern ment proposes to deal with the situa- tion:
believe to be necessary to help
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TRADE UNION TYRANNY
Read the
Does the Government believe for a moment that anything it can do will secure for it the adherence of every sec-
on of the Labour Party? manifestoes, read the literature of that that the express aim is not to promete Party, and through it all you will and the harmonious co-operation of those destroy and annihilate the whole system associated together in industry, but to of private enterprise: Therefore let the they will alienate the suffrage of any Government be under no illusion that section of the community that is not already declaredly hostile to them.
On the contrary, I profoundly be Leve that were they to declare what they already know that the power of Trade Unionism used by the men who now con- trol it for purely political purposes has become a tyranny and a menace to the workers themselves, that it bids fair to rain the industrial position, and with it the well-being of the people of this country, and that recogniting this they have determined that the exercise of this UNJUSTIFIABLE WORKING CONDITIONS, power for evil should be curtailed and The main question was one of the con restricted then I believe that they would ditions governing the costs of production rally to their support and assistance in the different countries, and it applied multitudes who are silently suffering at not only to the most highly specialized this moment and looking for a banner. manufactures, but to the lowliest, damunder which to struggle for their free- estic commodities British employment
dom...
Sir James Kemaal said that in по would be governed by the cost of British production. Apart from wage rates, other country, were the trade unions so. wage costs were inflated to day by un-gressive and so controlling as in Great justifiable working conditions. These Britain. The Government could control excess costs were brought about by a net the trade-unions which must be relegat Work of conditions which had grown up ed to the position for which they were. during the last few years as a result of originally created for benevolent func trade, union pressure exercised in one
The proper union was between form or another. All of them had de the employer and the employee. finitely increased costs. Against this be failed to find a solitary example of. trade union-action ar suggestion to secure any decreate in costs.
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FORTUNES MADE IN SHIPPING BOOM.
I want to be fair mid Lord Weir, but the trade union attitude always appears to be based on the assumption Following eight similar meetings the that the profit of the manufacturer is previous day, shareholders in the farther sufficient to provide for all these alleged ten of the shipless shipping companies improved conditions, or that they can managed by Messrs. Evan Thomas, Rad- be passed on to the consumer in the cliffe and Company, mét at Cardiff Docks price. I submit that the existing state recently, preparatory to voluntary wind-
For our fadustry proves that both assump-regate capitalisation of the 18 com
tions are wrong. The trade unions for-
get that we are no longer the only in- panies is £580,000, and the excess of dustrial nation, that we must not only half million sterling, that in some cases assets is so large, being over two and a sell abroad, but that our home market 18 an open one.
It is my conviction that very few of us get fully realize the true incidence of the shorter working week on our costs and prices, and the extent to which this single item has contributed to produce to-day's situation. After assuming the enormous burdens placed on us by the war and the further burdens on our in- dustry brought about by the dislocation of world trade, it is difficult to see how we were warranted in agreeing to assume not only the burden of a 15 per cent. increase in further burn rates per hour, but the of additional capital charges to enable output to be pro- dneed in the shorter period, the addi tional oncost, charges, and the by cellaneous mass of increaes brought about in different industries by two men being required in place of one, and by three shifts in place of two,
the shareholders will receive £500 in Gov. crament Waz securities
for each
£100 share.
The managing company, the principal partners of which are two brothers, Messrs. Henry and Daniel Radcliffe, who are leaders in the shipping industry in Cardiff, and among the millionairea of the docks get about, £700,000 as share holders and one-eighth of the gross assets, ar about £387,000, compensation for their loss of office.
Messrs. Evan Thomas, Radcliffe and Company still manage over a dozen single ship companies.
THE VALUE OF GOOD SIGHT cannot be over-estimated." Sight stande. for everything that is valuable or enjoy. HHORTER WEEK COSTS £200,000,000.-
able in life. You cannot tell if your eyes I estimate the increase in cost of are right; you may see well yet have British products last year due to the defective eyes. If you wish to have your ahortened week at over £200,000,000 Output has gone down approximately in eyen tested, the Refracting Room of The proportion to the hours To reduce costs Hongkong Optical Co., successors to in a normal year by £200,000,000 with Clark & Co., Refracting and Manu out affecting weekly earnings would be
the most direct and immediately effecfacturing Opticians--the most competent tive help which could be given to many optical establishment in Bouth Chine of our industries to-day.
located in 53, Queen's Road, Central
Other working conditions which in-
creased cost comprised the obstruction to is at your service. They have the equip systems of remuneration by result, the ments to test your eyes accurately. rules and regulations affecting overtime Testing the sight and fiting glassce is and night shift working, and the inel-
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Singapore; returning from Calcutta steamers proced via Straits and Hongkong to Japan, occasionally calling at Shanghai. "All steamers have accellent serenger accommodation, are fitted with Electric Light and Fans and carry a fully-qualiBed Surgeon. LINE-Sailings approximately every live days oorween Canton and
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