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KAILINGS BUEIRÓS"CO ARTEKATTOM
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 380, 1922,
LABOUR AND TRADE. POLICY NOT ATTUNED TO SOVIET MR. CLYNES'S TALK TO "BUSINESS MEN.
VICTORIA, SEATTLE & VANCOUVER via Changhai Japan port the Parliamentary Labour Party, was the
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VEREENIGDE
NEDERLANDSCH
SCHEEPVAARTMAATSCHAPPIJ
(United Netherlands Navigation Company).
HOLLAND-OOST AZIE LIJN
(Holland-East Asia Line)
(Members of the Straits, China and Japan Conferences).
Mr. J. R. Clynes, M.P., chairman of
guest at 'uncheon on January 8ith of "tue Imperial Commercial Association at Cannon-street Hotel, when he spoke on the question of Labour and Trade," and made reference to the principles, or which the Labour Party in the House of Commons was likely to frame its ture policy in relation to commerce.„
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7th March, 3 F.M.
th March, D'light. 7th March 10 7th March, Noon. 7th March 5 FX.
any other system totally unsuited to the conditions which had evolved in this country. Labour saw that the prosperity of the country rested on an ever-increas- ing volume of overzea trade." The war had not altered the fact that British trado MANILA...”...... SHANGHAI ... whatever might help to a revival, success BANDAKAN was dependent on oversca activity, and
HAIPHONG BOIHOW would be denied them unless gooti wages, STRAITS & CALCUTTA „ high production, and greater efficiency CALCUTTA LINE:- This Luss affords regular sailings so Calouts Frans would enable us to placa comiziodities on the markets at prices within the means of other people to bay them, and at atas which could effectively compete against BHANGHAI the skill and organization of other pro- ducers in other industrial countrica,
Wges in the last few months had been would boy arust to enable employers, to
not avail meet their difficulties. Employers must discover and apply other means as to make their success "certain. But so far as the worker had to choose between less pay and greater output he could best pro- mate his own interests by high produc-
MANILA
AIPHONG BURNEO
Singapore; returning frois Calcuma #beamus provdal ris Siralka and dongkong to Japan, poessionally calling at Shangant All memory, have acallent passager acson no teuton, Attel with Electric Light and fans ant carry a fully-qas dňo Sarguon
Approximately every three days costeen Dankon meg L-Shanshah, sometime sailing at Srator. Threat mod
.
Farsan weakly for passengere and outro...
when inducement offers
be obtained and through Bill of Lading are issued to, Sorthera
And Yangtane Fort via Shanghai. LINEA weekly service in maintained with Mails by resicle with good
amodation, salflinge from both gorke every Friday, LINE;-Sang
Fat steadis REINSANG" and K. MAUSANG" both steauare LINE-Fortnightly sailing to and from Sandakan by twa 6,000 to
excellent pamenger accommodation. Cargo baken en Ella of Lading, for Kadet, Jesselton. Inbaan Tawas Ugg Data
Sir John P. Hewett, vice-chairman of the association (who presided), said we were passing through a period of great trial, but there was no reason why we should be short of hope. Unity and co- operation should be their watchwords, and Mr. Clyncs would be able to show
TIENTSIN LINEA regalar servion is van from March to Move box belo
Hongkong and Tintain, calling at Welbalwes and Chalos them how the community could adoptation, which-would tend to increase his united front in the emergency which now chasing, value of the wages which hot
chances of employment and raise the pug BANGROESLINA-A wockly servics in provided beawan Hongkang and Bangkoke
There was a greaf
faced it.
earned.
Cheers.) Mr. Clynes, who was warmly received, teal of innocent misunderstanding in the said be was going to say what he een minds of werkmen owing to a lack of ceived to be true. As chairman of the knowledge of the elementary facts of poli- Parliamentary Labour Party, he would tical economy. In the recent manifesto liko to make it plain that this party was of the joint Labour bodies it was expressly often subject to misunderstanding be stated that it was in the interests of the cause of industrial and trade disputes for whole community that production should which it was in no way to blaze. The be increased and its costs reduced. party, therefore, as political body, Merely to reduce wages gave no guaranted) should not incur the censure which fell of lessened prices. upon it for the industrial quarrels which
WORKERS! MISTAKE. it could not help, and which; usually, it did its best to compose. It would be The mistake on the workers' side was to was some sort of the purpose of Labour, if in power, in its assume that there political and Parliamentary work, to aim mysterious reservoir of wealth into which at making impossible the industrial con- they could thrust their hands and bring flicts, which often involved both employ forward any wage which man might de ers and employed in the greatest waste sire." The truth was that the volume of and loss, and incidentally inflicted upon national production was the level of the the consuming public damage which never wages a man could receive for his labour. could be repaired. They had beard Workmen had not suffered from over- much in the last year or two of the action production. They had suffered from They had suffered of particular trade unions. It was dif-under-consumption. ficult for bodies of trade unionists to re from the inability of other people to buy. sist those temptations to which huraan (Cheers.) nature commenly surrendered,
The complexity of our commercial net-
There were some rules of trade union work and the world-wide character of the ists which were old-fashioned; but trade process of distribution called for the ser- union rules and customs were not srvice of large numbers of men sometimes gülar to organizations of workmen. In considered to be wasteful and interfering the higher trades and professions there the middle men. Very low of this class were regulations to safeguard personal of commercial men were altogether wast interests as rigid as ever a trade union ed in industry. Most of them were indis! adopted. Soma trade union rules might pensable in trade expansion. They ex- be considered to operate even to the detri-tended, initiated, and stimulated busi- ment of workmen, and, personally, he be-ness, and supplied a variety of servico lieved some of them did, but this was without which trade often would decline. Workmen could not be persuaded, con largely due to the fact that such rules sprang from the absence of any co-opera-tinued . Cirnes, to make great fort tive purpose of mutual consideration of for, mure production if they feared that joint interests. Trade unions were put thereby they would the sooner be out of under legal restraint' in their early job. The men who maintained industry growth, and were suppressed by employ when they were at work should be sub- ers as improper organizations in revolt stantially helped by industry when they If that were not a against conditions which people claimed wre out of a job,
doctrine acceptable to the commercial the right to determine.
mind, it was an inseparable part of the working-class mind, and it was a doctrine which would have to be considered in any future policy in relation to the treatment of the unemployed in Great Britain. (Cheers.)
Trade unions should Eave been allowed freedom to grow up as part of a neces sazy industrial organization. No wonder that so many rules were framed in the Farrow terms of self-defence and a fear lest either employers or the development
Business men should no longer fear of trade should rob workmen of what collectively to exert their influence upon were thought to be their individual in- terests, Rules, however, should be broad. foreign policy and the direction of poli ened to meet more modern conditions and tical doctrine in this country. Doctrine" and policy determined trade in these Political adapted to present-day systems of pro days more than ever before.. duction and business. They could not rivalries could well be the remain tooted in the past and at the same trade destruction. Trading interests were time fulfil the requirements" of masses of world-wide, and international friendships conditions widely different from previous Foreign relations must improve if trade was to be saved, and agreement must be the foundation of those relations. The commercial men of Britain must now give a lead to parties in the State if trade was to be rescued from a distracted posi tios.
cause
of
JAPAN PORTS SHANGHAI, HONGKONG ANI! men who had to earn their living under could go lar to sustain business success.
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תגים
22nd February 1822.,
BROTHERS & CO.,
years.
ATTITUDE TO PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.
A great deal of nousense was talked about the designs of Labour upon private caterprise. It was not Labour that had imposed upon it a tax of Gs, in the
Business men had sometimes.associated pound, rising in some cases to double that amount. Private enterprise had to carry themselves with the idea of a business a heavy load of rates, payments, and in Government, but they had done little to terests, and none of these could be worse influence either national or international under any condition of Labour authority. polies on lines to ensure business prosper- Labour would be as considerate as any ity. 1s was not enough for business men If legis other Government in composing claims as to be asked to be let alone. they arose between public well-being and Jative limits were not fixed human and private gain. I liberty could be securey personal needs would tend to fix limits only by restraints Labour would preserve quite as rigid as the law had ever done. There was room for every class if each n high degree of freedom, if only because"
it was committed to serve the public in class would honestly and fairly do its terest. Il railways and waterways, for share in seeking the common national instance, were national property, they welfare. Labour said to-day:-- Thia is Having could scarcely be subject to more legal for country as well as yours,"
every class actively serving the national
CO. cuatrol or departmental regulation than said that, it was their duty to join with
نا
they now were.
Labour was not a detached section of well-being. It was the duty of Labour to the country; it came near being the pursue a policy so as to give to every country itself! The Labour Party bad man, working with his brains as well as been in existence but 20 years, and it bad with his hands, his fair and full share grown to be the second largest party in of the rewards of his service. He was the House of Commons and, he thought, certain that those rewards would come the country. Sir Arthur Grifith in full measure just in the degree that Boscawen had told them that the danger there was great and not less close co- to London, and through London to the operation and agreement among all sec whole country, was the so-called Labour lens for the common advance of the Party, composed of so-called revoln- country, which they were"all anxious to see far better than it was at the present tionary Socialists. They were acenstom- time, (Cheers.).
In
ed, in the ordinary conditions of party
LTD warfare, to keep a number of scarecrows;
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but if such a scarecrow as this had to ba planted in the field of politics so as to frighten the timid, perhaps it was appro means better health and better resulta priate that it should be planted by the from your work, and if your eyes, require Minister for Agriculture (Laughter.)
The truth of all this talk about revolu- glasses you have careful and expert tionary Socialism was this the extremist examination in äitting the proper correo diminished in his inflnerice, in number and
power, in the degree that he reached a tion. Bye comfort requires also just to Stage of responsibility;
expert care in the manufacture and
Every party had its extremists: The adjustment of your glasses. You wi Conservatives had their **dishards." find it worth while to consult a reliableʻ
(Laughter.) »In every organization the firm, devoted exclusively to optical work;
man who came to ginger it up was usually
welcomed on the common understanding over ten years experience in the Colony, that if he could not do any good, at least You will find no better equipment any he could not do any harm. (Laughter.)
The Labour Party had extremists, but, where than in the office and factory of in the main, the personnel of the party, its The Hongkong Optical, Co.,.successors to platform, ite principles, the programme Clark & Co., Manufacturing and Bo. authoritatively put forward, did not
attune at all to the doctrine of those who fracting Opticians, located in 53, Queen's
[542 would have us adopt the Soviet system or Bead Central,-Asys,
and
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