FETTERS ON TRADE.
A HOME OPINION.
There would seem to be a fairly unanimous feeling in the com- mercial world at the present moment with respect to the existing restrictions upon in- dustry, says the Daily Telegraph. It is that they should be removed at the earliest possible moment. and that the Government are not acting as quickly and vigorously as they would if they were equally convinced of the desirability of their removal. No Minister, it is true, alludes to the subject without saying that the Go- vernment art as eager 35 anyone else to strike the fetters off industry. This may be true in a general way, but what the business world knows-though officialdom can hardly admit it- is that when it is to the interest of thousands of officials that Government control shall con- tinue, these interested parties are sure to exercise a very strong pressure on the heads of their Departments to keep the goatrol in being. When once a new bureaucracy is established, it is a difficult matter to get rid of it, even after
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necessity out of which it arose has ceased to exist. Noune needs to be learned in the secrets of human nature to understand that the officials concerned with re- strictions DIT trade are now endeavouring to keep their jobs for as long as possible. There
pany. Idd stress on "the great RIOT AT YANGTSEJENGINEER- are exceptions, of courses disinclination of officials to part
ING WORKS. especially among the expert with the powers which they have business men who were imported obtained under Dora." und into these control departments at said
that numerous pretexts considerable sacrifice to
are
their would he presented for their
private interests. Bat these continanes, Pis general view!
not the majority is that the e entry will have a the
bureaucrats, new
uphill taste get back bot
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SOLDIERS FIRE ON MOB,
Hollow, Fat 25. Tu Yang- who made very good bargains war position, but need not despair the Engineering Works is the for themselves when they became of success, "given freedom from lone establishment in the country Government officials, and will Government control and its irri-to which the Chinese could point certainly be loth to see their tating and wasteful interference.with pride a being 2 great occupation gone. Of course, this That is the considered opinion of does not by any means wholly one of the shipping world, who is concern which was founded, and account for what seems to many dead against any proposal mextended till it has grown great. the extreme slowness of the nationalise shipping, and is con-by the Chinese themselves with- Government to take off the fetters vinced that shipowners can man-out foreign inspiration or support. or, as the chairman of an importage their own business better It employs
at present about ant company put it the other day,
than any State Department. to remove the blockade." The
of the 1500 hands and does all kinds difficulties ought in common Shipping Control is no argument of shipbuilding, bridge building against this, on the contrary, it and engineering work in a manner reinforces it, for Sir Joseph Mac-which comes in no way short of lag is a shipowner of great foreign firms. It is located some experience, and, if report is to be distance from rankow on the trusted, he is very anxious to get lother side of the seven mile creek. back to the affairs of his own and forms a little town. by itself.
The marked success
company.
fairness 10 be recognised. Control in respect of the importation of raw materials cannot be cancelled by a stroke of the pea. owing. first. to the shipping problem, which did not cease to be acute when it ceased to be dangerous, and.
Such men as he are not the second, to the needs of our Allies. normal type which bureaucracy Had there been no control, prices produces, they are rather its very would have been rushed up to a antithesis. The common opinion Fabulous height as soon as the of the business world as to the armistice was signed, for all the effect of bureaucratic control was the Allies in Europe, at any rate well expressed by Sir Vincent were buyers to the full extent Caillard at the meeting of the of their credit and capacity. It is Federation of British Industries, no use crying for the impossible.when he referred to it as a mere We only ask to be persuaded
strangle-hold upon industry." that the
are Government control had certain
Government
Every effort has been made to benefit the workmen. Gardens. schools and clubhouses are provid- ed and lectures and sermons are a steady feature of the uplift work carried on.
The works are at present being extended by the installation of a. blast furnace and further machine shops which will necessitate doubling the number of bands employed. In this connection all hands were being registered. and sundry new arrangements made. something and yesterday morn- iz acted almost always AS ing refused to go on duty, so a clog and a hindrance, It was they were gently put outside. It this point, too, the commercial the spirit of individualism which so happens that this out of the created the mercantile supremacy way and unprotected corner has world has opinions of its own of Great Britain. and that spirit become the happy hunting ground they may have been at their ap- pointment. The United States Broans under the trade restrict- of all sorts of bad characters who has been much more favourably ons now in vogue, and groans do not feel safe in the native city, still more under their too often un so the discontented go: together situated. President Wilson was intelligent application by officials about a thousand of these and able to say, in his message to who do not know the ABC of returned armed with iron bars. Congress, just before he sailed,
we know the modern business. That has been tools and sticks to attack the "The moment
a fruitful cause of trouble during works. It was about 9.30 in the armistice to have been signed we the war. People recognised that morning and the gate was shut. took the harness off. Raw mater- there must be restrictions; the Mr. Wong Kwong, the Manager. ials upon which the Government had kept its hands for fear there were goaded to wrath by the char- tried to reason with them but would not be enough for the acter of the officialdom responsible they bust in the gate and flew for putting them into force That all over the place smashing every industries that supplied the
control" is is why the word armies have been released and put
thing breakable and laying out now such a stumbling-block into the general market again. even to those business men who The 24 police of the works were everyone who stood in their way, The great industrial plants, whose whole output and machinery have admit that the anfettered in able to do nothing and promptly been taken over for the uses of dividualism of the past is no disappeared, while Mr. Wong the Government, have been set longer applicable to the present, Kwong found it advisable to and who see, indeed, that it free to return to the uses to which they were put before the resulted in certain well-defined escape by a back door.
Northern war." It is in that spirit that defecta. One can imagine, the we expect the British Govern- cretically, a perfect system of soldiers told off to guard the pre- business controlled and directed mises and they opened fire on the ment to act in this country: though we fully realise the by State officials for the highest rioters wounding several with the difference of the conditions. good and advantage of the State result that the mob in turn got But feeling, as we have said, is end of all engaged in a particular scared, and by the time that That seeros to be soldiers arrived from Seven mile running strong in the commercial industry.
the Socialist ideal. We will Creek Paper mill, all was quiet- world. Hardly a day passes with-
respect of the four of them had licked the out the chairman of some import only observe in ant industrial concern referring to it that the ideal bureaucrats thousand. It is proposed to keep can be satisfatorily the subject at the general meeting required to work such a system the works shut down till this out. It is the of his company. One of the latest do not exist, never have existed, matter
and never will exist, and that straightened
doing their best 10. remove ly little enough to do with the the restrictions as quickly as development of British industry.A small minority objected to possible, and are not being unduly Where it existed at all. influenced by officials whose period of usefulness has passed away, however indispensable--on
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