Page
GAELIC
THE GALLIC
THE HONGKONG "DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY,
OLD SMUGGLER
A BRAND REGISTERED IN EVERY -MARKET✨ »
OF THE WORLD.
Guaranteed a pure Scotch Whisky compose 1 of the Finest Old High. land Malte and Grains of proved Age and Maturity.
Gaelic Old Smuggler is the Premier "Scotch" known and appreciated Everywhere.
GANDE, PRICE & CO.
LTD.'
Sz. CBORGE'S BUILDING. Las Horsa STREET
HONGKONG.
TEL. CENTRAL 135.
JUST AS PRÈTTY
AS WHEN IT WAS
NEW!”.
SEND ΤΟ THE PREMIER
DYERS AND DRY-CLEANERS.
THE STEAM LAUNDRY
CO.
HEAD OFFICE & WORKS: Mongkok, Tel. K. 32. HONGKONG DEPOT: 16, Stanley St, Tel. 0. 1279. KOWLOON HOTEL DEPOT. KOWLOON DEPOT: 18, Canton Road. PEAK HOTEL DEPOT.
HONGKONG HOTEL (Visitors only). Write or Phone for complete Price List.
Lysol
BEZ TRADE HARE ON ZVERY FATTEL
NEW ARRIVAL
LYSOL
THE ONLY GENUINE QUALITY.
SEX TRADE MARK ON IVZZY DOTTLE.
MANUFACTURERS AND PATENTEES.
(The Original Makers)
SCHULKE & MAYR A-G, HAMBURG, GERMANY.
OBTAINABLE AT ALL LEADING DISPENSARIES.
THE CANTON TRADING ASSOCIATION," LTD.
SOLE AGENTS.
5TH FLOOR, CHINA BUILDING.
"Hazeline Snow
{Trade Mark)
Gives the happy assurance that
an evening's enjoyment" will not be spoilt by complexion worr
“Hazeline
Trade Markh
Rose Frost".
for those who need
a touch of colour
Bath la gius pots
́All Chemists and Stores
BURROUGHS. WELLCOME, & CO.
{Tha WellasME FOUNDATION Lre.. Lowaon, Txa.
LONDON AND, SHANGHAIDHA
Er 4522
· All Rights Reserved
(3395
COAL MINE HOURS AND--
OUTPUT.
A MINER'S VIEW OF THE COAL CONTROVERSY
VARYING CIRCUMSTANCES.
اجر
The following article is by a Stafford- shiro miner-up at Oxford for the W.E.A. Sunimer School, who has at tempted to answer in the light of his own experience some of the questions com- monly put.
SEPTEMBER 11TH,⠀⠀⠀ 1926
EXIT GARRICK,
OLD DRURY LANE DAYS.
successors.
[EY G. MORRISON.]
His last appearance on the stage was on Monday, June 10th, and the Morning lost of the following day contains an The Wonder," account. The play was
A great event of the year 1778 was the retirement of Garrick Ever since he drow the fun past Drury Lane to White- chapel in 1741, and was forthwith trans- forred from Whitechapel to Drury Lane, he had occupied a position in the social, literary, and theatrical world such a no other actor has held From 1747 he had been in control of Drury Lane, and One gets the You know, old chap, with him it had proved a gold-mine. It eight hours is only about the same time was ΠΟΥ
Into the hands of that we all have to work." The Samuel young Sheridan, who, by creating in Commission gives the day as being it interests in order to raise moneys for hours. This does not tell what the public his private needs, made it ruinous to his ought to know about the legal day of
Garrick was just turned the miners. Mining is unlike other in-sixty: he had three years to live before: dustries in so far as we cannot all get being buried with great pomp in West to the actual working place at the same minister Abbey. time, and each mine has a legal day to enable the men to get down and up, lear- ing a clear seven hours of actual winding time, during which the coal is being brought to the surface. The legal day of the mine at which I am employed, or rather was employed, begins at 8.15 s.m. and ends at 2.45 p.m., not at all bad for a seven-hour day; but our crowd are ather lucky, for the mine is quite small; our nearest neighbour has half an hour longer. The longest legal day of the mines that I know of begins at 4.45 am and ends at 3.13 p.m. Please do not think that the walk in the mine is a gentle saunter in the park very often the walking is worse than the working. You may ask why it is that there is so much walking to be done, why are we not carried into the actual workings! That question you must ask of the manage ment; that is their job. When they can carry is in and out within something like eight hours the problem of the eight hour day is solved.
OUTPUT.
"What about this reduction of out- put? Are you fellows slacking?" asks as a candid friend Naturally I ask who suggests that we are lacking....... "Oh, well, is the reply, "I see in the papers that at such a date the output was con- siderably more per man than it is to-day.' That may be true, although we always suspect the figures, for we know who handles them. But let us accept the figures
given. Did you read in the papers that when output was at its peak wages were less by far than they are to-day, and if wages are determined sole- ly by output why did not the miner get the higest wages when his output was greatest.7
تی
The figures were given in the shape in which they were presented to the public. for-the-very purpose of anggesting slack ing. The Sgures may be right, the average output per man may be less, but the cause of it lies not with the miner, but with the management and mining conditions generally. Let me give a case iq point. About 20 years ago I work- ed at a certain mine that was just open- ing up a fresh scam; the shalt med just been sunk to it. The district "consisted of six drifts, the drift being the working unit of the actual coal production. Six men made up the drift team. Altogether this district employed 50 men, including the fireman, and the output was 100 tons per day on the average. Even if one of the drifts were of for some reason the average was maintained, for when all were at work the greatest possible output of each individual drift was not possible The output was, in this case two tons per day per man and lad. That was 20 years ago, and they are still working in the same seam.
But
in which as Don Felix, he was at bis sprightliest. He made a speech, which the Fort reports, with at the foot the note, "This address was taken down in short- hand." He spoke with emotion. "Here for a moment he was unable to proceed until relieved by a flood of tears" there is nothing arresting in the account: the writer's descriptive powers being pre- sumably paralysed by the magnitude of the occasion: What the retirement meant to London comes out more vividly in the reports concerning earlier performances in which he sustained this cr favourite character for the last time. liked him best in comedy, and the public From these it appears that the quality a large in tragedy. Thus the Pt of of his final performance lay 10th
"The Beaux'
of Farquhar's comedy Stratagem."
that
The concourse of people of fashion was so great on Sunday Inst to see. Garrick's Archer at Drury Lane, that' many of them were not able to get to their carriages by 'one o'clock the fol lowing morning.
"HOUSE FULL"
The Port of May that reports of the final performance of King Laar," which Garrick embellished with a happy end- ing, a course for which the late Sir Theodore Martin furnished a ludicrous justification:
་
A gentleman who came post from Egham in order to see Garrick play Lear last month, took his post as hear the door leading to the pit as he could. possibly get at four o'clock; heatcod the various crushings and squeezings -usual-on-such-occasions-with-great. fortitude and composure till half after. five: when, the doors opening, he was carried by the torrent, without any progressive movement of bis own, into the pit-door and from thence was shot with great violence by the eddy of the tide plump against the corner of the front boxes with his back to the stage, in which cruel situation he remained during the representation despite every struggle to turn him round.-Morning Post.
W
and here is a considerable cause of the waiting for waggons trouble. We are in the new order. The mines are bigger; by which I mean they can extend their levels to greater distances than generation, ever dreamed of, and new an older problems have to be faced.
Linking the output of the face with the winding capacity of the shaft is among the toughest propositions that the mana ger has to face. Let that be as it will,
is the manager's job, not the miser's. It was this attempt to organize the drift to the shaft that was responsible for the covercrowding of mines and was partly responsible for the minimum wage.
What is the cost of haulage? How many does it take to handle the coal now? Thirty years ago 14 people were sufficient to put the coal on the cage. To-day the drifts still maintain the same average Gutput, but the number of men and inds on haulage work has increased, and so the average output per man has decreased. This applies to all, or nearly all, the Now to take machinery. I first saw á mines in North Staffs There are two coal cutter less than six months ago; it new mines, I believe, and one or two certainly is not more than 12 months old have sunk their shafts to lower seams. In this particular mine When it was worked at one of these pita when the men introduced it was brought into the same could get to the actual workings in 10 seam and under the same conditions that minutes; it now takes an hour.
prevailed these last 20 years. This I know to be true, for I have worked in the same seam for that length of time, and there is quite as much coal hewn by hand as is not by the machine at the mine I work at. There have been some improve- ments during recent years in the matter of haulage, but there are quite a number of horses still with us.
A
•
act
WHEN FOOD DISAGREES
THE SURFACE WORKERS. The Commission pointed out that many of the people that have recently come into the mining industry are employed on the surface. In the old days the coal was just tipped into the trucks and let go at that. Nowadays there is a little army of men and lads employed on the modern screens and alack washers. This now plant may be very necessary, but it does not help to produce a larger output, and every additional man and lad so employ- ed lowers the average output per man. Whatever new improvements may be ap plied for the separating and cleaning coal when it arrives on the surface help in the production.
Another question asked is: Is it simply take a little 'Bisurated Magnesis in true that your industry is so very out quarter of a glass of water and it will at once of date as so many of the papers sug-
remove the cause of the trouble, together with gent!" I cannot speak of the industry them when all else failed: hospitale use this all the pain! Thousands exy this has helped as a whole, I can only speak of what I care and doctors prescribe it. Digestive know. You will have read that the troubles get worse quickly and they never care miners claim they could, and would, send themselves; those who suffer in this way should out more coal if the owners or manage not therefore, delay taking the help which ment would let them have the waggons only Bisurated Magnesis can give. It costs to put it in. This waiting for waggons but little, and any chemist or dealer can supply has become a chronic disease in many you with either powder or tablet form, Big mines in North Staffs, but it was not ursted Magnesis never fails to give relief always so. In North Stañs there are and is always safe to use. large numbers of small dirt heaps where quite small mines. once were. In those days the minca were worked by what wo older merr call the big butty system," under which two or three men would con- tract with the owners or managers for the working of the whole pit. The iden in the minds of the butties was to keep the drifts supplied with waggons even if the haft had to, wait now and again; it would give the winding engine time to cool a bit. Under this system waiting for waggona was unknown. I started my mining life" under this system. The | slogan of that day was "keep the drifts going," but the old order changes, and now the ery is "keep the cages running," (Continued on next Column)
• Sold gm com
LONDON SELLING AGENTS
TRA, INDIGO FIBRES BRISTLEES OILERED
mission in British
sad Continental
HIDES & SKINS | Marketa. RUBBER, DRUGS
COTTON WOOL [Samples, valued
HORES, MICA
GUME, AND
GENERAL
FRODUCE
Best ports for
consignments in- dicate
KEYMER, SÓN & CO... (Import Dept,) Whitefrism, London. Telegrama: Kermer, London. Est, 1684
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
Best Portland Cement.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
T
GENERAL MANAGERS,
HONGKONG.
AKE big outstanding fact about Kelvinator is ita absolute reliability. Any Eelvinator owner will tell you how thoroughly dependable it is.
1
Kelvinator is entirely automatic and is so well designed that it can be installed in any standard refrigerator. It is so efficient that it freezea ice for table use and is an invaluable aid in the preparation of delicious desserts. It is guaranteed to give you the same complete satisfaction that it has for years given to thousands of housewives. Come in and see it or phone for literature.
138
CALL AT OUR OFFICE FOR A DEMONSTRATION.
HOLYOAK, MASSEY & CO., LTD.
Agents for Hongkong & 8. China:
Messrs. Lane, Crawford's Hardware Showrooms,
[A. P.B]
The China Light & Power Co.'s Showrooms,
-62, Nathan Road, Kes loun
Established 1914
Kelvinator
Electric Refrigeration
[317
THREE CELEBRATED MINERAL WATERS.
CONTREXEVILLE—a tónic and an admirable
aid to digestion."
EVIAN WATERS-the most agreeable of table
Try it.
waters.
VICHÝ CELESTINS—invaluable as a cure for liver trouble and biliousness, gout and arthritis.
OBTAINABLE AT -
THE FRENCH STORE,
9, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE.
USE GAS
IN
YOUR HOMES.
For Particulars of all kinds of Gas Fittings...
Apply to the Showroom of the HONGKONG & CHINA GAS Co., Ltd.
168, Des Vœux Road Central