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SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1990,

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THE

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among

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R. W. FRAZAR & CO., 5 Rue de Paris, Tientsin, China. THE SHANGHAI GARAGE CO., 4 Foochow Road,

Shanghai, China.

an

was

WAGES AND THE COST

OF LIVING.

THE CHINA MAIL.

A UNIQUE LAUNCHING.

SHOWERS OF BRICKBATS

AND STONES.

Tokyo, March 3-Showers of brickbats and stories, instead of Auttering of flags and showers of flowers, marked the launch of the Eastern Sailor, a 10,000- ton vessel built for the U.S. Shipping Bourd, as she glided to the water from the Bakurajima Yard of the Osaka Iron Works, This is a unique' sanching for Japan, and probably is without a counterpart in the world. Mrs. R. F. Moss of Tokyo was the sponsor of the new veseci.

There would probably be little use in discussing the railway, offer in detail at the moment. The present state of affairs necessarily suggests further conferences and possibly • modified offer, and for the moment the question of the actual wages at Issum may be left to develop. There is one aspect of the offer, however, which may well be discussed and which demands discussion. This is the proposed introduction into normal trade relations of a sliding scale of wages operating in terms of the cost of living. This principle as artifically-controlled element

Discontent of the employees was introduced into industry at the bottam. Thinking that they by the Government during the bad not been fairly treated, about By artifically controlled we 600 of them selected the time the mean that wages in certain launching of the vessel had been dustries were directly regulated by appointed for, and with brickbats and Government decree in terms of the pellets of hard mud, tried to prevent rising cost of living. There was no the ship being launched in the custo- such definite sliding scale as is now mary manner. In the excitement, proposed for the railwaymen, but the vessel, kissed the water to the the principal of such artiñcial control accompaniment of missiles of various was introduced and recognised. We sorts. A stone strack Mr. Katani, emphasise the matter of artificial engineer of the company, who was control, since in the long run wages severely injured. have always been fixed in terms of

The police were communicated the cost of living. The process has with, and soon arrived on the scene. been a natural one, and has perhaps They advised the men not to take operated slowly, but in any healthy the law into their own hands, told industry a rise in the cost of living them, that is they had any grievances, has been followed by a rise in wages. they should arrange for the manage, The new spirt which has certainly ment to receive a deputation and to a very considerable extent per-thus obtain redress. The men ap meated the commucity, at least ofparently thought the advice tendered this country, may ask why an old gratis by the police good, and dis- halting natural method by means of

persed, which wages followed prices should! not be replaced by a scientific tabu- lated method in which wages will directly follow prices in terms of a be run by the State, it will be feasible pre-arranged schedule and at pre artificially to regulate wages in terms arranged brief intervals. For not of prices, but at the present time only the new spirit, but the plain we are far from the new age and our man can very clearly see that if this solvency is a matter of much concern. remember principle is introduced into the relatis as well occasionally

tions between railway servants that the country is now paying its and the railway companies, there way, or attempting to pay its way, is no reason why it should not entirely as a result of the efforts of be introduced into every walk of life. private industry. The various great And both can see that if it is so in-services which the Government either troduced, such extension" to trades control or are seriously interfering generally will very quickly follow. with, are paying nothing, or less One does not wish without good than nothing, towards the carrying- cause, to oppose a new spirit, sean of the country. The plain mas many of the attributes of which are in many of his manifestations is Bo admirable, bet this sliding scale of tired of civil service methods in wazee in terms of the cost of living industry and looks upon Government 'carries so much danger that we can control as so inefficient that he might pot pass its official introduction in care little it a sliding scale of wages normal times without protest.. No in terms of prices were introduced doubt in the new age, of the solvency into all Government services. The of which Mr. Sidney Webb is quite danger is, however, not that Goy- satisfied, and when everything is toernment services will become mare efficient, but that the principle which is at first sight an attractive one will by degrees spread to all industry.--- Engineering.

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