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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1954.

Now that the U.6. has decided that is chief atomic scientists, though loyal, may not be Trustworthy, The problem of our time is how to get the best out of them without allowing them access to their own secrets.

PRACTICAL SECURITY

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

FREDERICK ELLIS, who recently investigated the new industrial Germany, sets out on an inquiry at home to answer the question, Is Britain working hard enough?

Soft Words Don't Make

D

Up For

Glasgow.

O you remember the row Nuel Coward started with his song "Don't Let's

Be Beastly To The Ger- mans"? Well, the latest might be called version "Don't Let's Be Beastly To The British Working Man." And doubt that will cause A stinko in many places.

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When I planned this trip visit in Britain industrial plants similar to those I had seen in Germany, I rang to contact leading motor maker, renowned outspoken comments. But he had become ns shy as the first primrose of spring.

No."

I was told, "the chair- man is really a shy man and he does not wish to say anything. He advises you to

Mr Gresham Cooke." Mr Cooke is official spokesman for the car makers.

sce

Ah, well, I thought, they will be tougher on the Clyde, the world's largest shipbuilding river. But no, there was the reluctance to talk about the working man

same

Hard

TROUBLE SPOT

Work

WHO does what? That is one of the hot trouble spois in the shipyards. Demarcation it is called,

A CLYDE EXAMPLE was a strike lasting several days and involving 1,000 men because the sheet-Iron workers claimed that insulation of a liner was being done by shipwrights instead of them.

A TYNE EXAMPLE: Welders claimed that fixing of rungs for ladders inside the holds of tankers should be done by them and not blacksmiths.

This is inter-union rowing which the managements None of their business, nre reluctant even to discuss. they say, although they would like to see the end of these demarcation disputes.

But in German shipyards demarcation problems do not exist. They just get on with the job.

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enthusiasm that they played football during their lunchtime break, with the temperature up In the 70's, before an admiring "gate" of 200 fellow workers,

Their ball control in a con- fined space would have served England well in Hungary.

They

have the tools, for Brown's yard is one of the best cquipped in the

world.

Hun-

dreds of thousands of pounds

have been spent on new plant every year since the end of the war.

Di

I could not help thinking of the Germans, with much their machinery patched up and Inadequate for the job. But the Germans are pouring in the new

catching plant

up fast 500,000 tons, they assemble bits and pieces Britain's shipyard rivers. 4,000,000 lons supplied by other firms into ships, Sir James summed up his They havo little control опуст 8,000 men: "They one not the finished price, except the slacking, but everyone could do wage content the ship.

down

with compared booked in 1951.

New orders this year art being placed at an even lower rate, for two reasons: (1) Ship- Prices of new ships are climbing ping is no longer booming; (2) to dizzler heights, and are going to go higher.

Saya Str James: "Labour costs add to our burdens. WC wages for the same or less work cannot afford to

more pay

without losing the race." in

Coal has just gone up price so up goes the price of steel 155, a ton, Ships are made of steel - so up goes the price of a ship.

All extra costs are auto-

more."

on

Rene MacColl In Russia FAREWELL TO

T

BAKU

1

In a Soviet plane over The manager gots £100

Central Asia. month, the chief engineer HE

£183 10s, and the technological Casplan has hood £127

10s. (How do I come and gone and know? I asked them. Soviet Uzbekistan lies close citizens have not the slightest ahead. But just now I am compunction about telling you thinking not forward but what they earn, even though you are a total stranger. Imagine back pondering on the asking the head of a British unusual circumstance that factory what he makes. | before leaving Baku I was “I say, old man--tcally.

presented with a huge bou- On top of the salaries are the quet of flowers by the various prizes and bonuses. For manager of a biscult fac- this was a star factory-it con- tory.

sistently keeps beating "planned" output of 50 ions dally by several tons. I

was that

its

What happened snld I would like to see a factory of some kind before leaving the most part a long way off

Baku. And after I thought the whole notion had been forgotten,

The employees, who live for

from the factory, are fetched in

buses. There is a

the Intourist people said i would the mornings and taken home al be welcome to drop lo on this night in biscult factory on the the airport.

way to nursery near by for the infants al young mothers and two to four weeks of holiday a year

When I arrived I was ushered with pay. past little groups of goggling

girls who had gathered to cast an eye at his strange visitant from the West.

All in white

The girls work a 48-hour weeks and there is a night shift on which seven hours are worked instead of eight by day. In the ille-floored dining-room you can buy a plate of soup for about 16. 7d. A plate and an entree IN the offee I was greeted by costs between 2s. 6d. and 49, 9d,

the manager, tiny Azer- There Pre ballant in a neat little

constant money

grey

lounge sult and starched collar inducements to step up produc- (1 rather think for the occasion).

use 好 progressive system of percentages geared to

tion-"We

Also present was the chicf salaries to aid us in carrying

engineer, a formidable-looking out our master plan,"

chup sporting a blue-and-white striped shirt open at the neck. He had a swarthy complexion and coarse black hair brushed back. He too was an Azerbai– Jani.

All down

DACK to the manager's offico

were

The third man was Armenian.

...and then I noted with some He was described as "the tech- dismay that four kinds of rich nological head." After a few cake and biscuits with un- questions from me we all donned pronounceable name white overalls and close-atting placed in heaped servings before white caps and, looking like so ime. many surgeons about to operate, off we set on a tour of inspec- tion.

All intent

I had had a late breakfast and it was not yet midday. The three others watched benignly as I first tackled a cake made of honey and nuts (which Wn3 really delicious).

RST stop was in the labora-

But the next offering was a

of fruit cake huge slab

with tory, where a big woman, with the mien, manner, and great chunks of pear and peach clothes of the head of an Oxford and plum fairly swimming in women's college, told me primis sugar on its upper surface, and of how they tolled to ensure this had me struggling. that the biscuits and

cakes.. I got it down with the aid of they produce 17 different kinds, and over 30 tons of them a day

are invariably up to snuff. To stress her point she waved in my face in official book of standards. Then on into the factory proper, where 850 people, 85 percent of them girls and women, were working with Burt of rigid intentness which I have rarely seen equalled.

All uncanny

STOPPED to watch a group of girls, weighing and packag ing one kind of biscuit in way paper wrappings. The speed and the concentration with which they worked was uncanny and I stared fascinated at their flying fingers,

a glass of ten and then looked weakly at the remaining two jumbo silces. "Eat them quickly or you will hurt their feelings," hissed the Intourist woman in my ear. Thus prompted, I took a deep breath.

All smiles

Air car an ancient gardener

S we all went out to the walt- That goes for much of British

stepped up and handed to the What we need is an industry.

tiny manager A perfectly industrial Billy Graham to bring

of Irises and a revival of the British working

colossal bouquet

roses, all bound man's pride and enthusiasm for

peonies and the job. For the working man,

together with ribbon. The next moment the manager passed it Brown's men and Sir James like the rest of us, is dependent insists that they

all on to me with a flourish. are "good on winning the export battle,

Cakes and flowers at high fellows, sensible chaps"-take

All this is a struggle no less

noon in Baku, MacColl? Well, homo £10 a week on average important to the welfare of the

well, for 49-hour week. That in nation than the night by

the

We started off and the little "Ah, a Komsomol group--some the cludes Ave hours overtime.

ships

of very

these mighty "escolator"

Walking round the yard which riverside yards against Hitler's of our shock troops, purred an crowd en the steps waved and

official. The girls get from 500

smiled

valediction. trouble. clause through

in the contracts. So, built the royal yacht Britannia U boats in the Atlantic,

to 700 roubles a month (say The Intourist woman pemarked slowly, this vital industry, 1 I was impressed by these rugged, SAIL, PIECE; Round Brown's 107. to £63 14s, at fresent in plination: Is the pricing itself out of new busi- tough-looking men with hard yard are pasted messages from exchange, gate for unskilled tradition of the Odent to give ness, drives away the customer. hands-men today.

who proudly, and the Queen, praising the workers labras, and 800 to 1400 roubles the utter hospitality you under- You see evidence of it in Hence the reason for Sir rightly, claim to be the nest for the Britannia. Unlike other (say-273 to £127 10s, a pont stand."

choleman's speech to James's call for harder work — shipbuilders every

in the world. noces the royal message has for sicilled,

Yes, I understand. shareholders. The bosses are by men and by management. Craftsmen of high order.

not been defaced by the usual appeasers who only dig in their

But, oh, it only they went ruderies, So much for the heels hard when the workers

about their work with the slander of "Red Clydeside." make an impossible wage claim.

tomatically

seem afraid The bosses speak their minds in case what they

will start say Such is the uneasy peace that exists in many British factories

Such an uneasy partnership between man and master is no to

way for British industry enter the battle for exports against the Germans and the Japanese.

Remember, this trade offen- sive from

our ex-enemies of the battlefield is only just get-

ting under way.

passed

on to

The shipbuilders aro like boys with a toy building set

US

BACKWARD ENGLISH

London.

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By LES ARMOUR

librory, orders up a book on washer-changing, buys a set of wrenches, and goes to work.

By this time, no doubt, his house is knee-deep in water.

As for Thomas J. Barrett on "Harnessing the Earthworm," the Englishman would surely be content to hire a professional should he ever be in dire need of an earthworm's service.

There is (as the diplomatie correspondents would say) R fundamental difference in at- titudes here.

Yet, walking round the vast TN the United States you yard of John Brown, the Pride of the Clyde, Sir James McNeil, can now buy books tell the gentlest of shipbuilders, Ing you how to silence a whose inner toughness is not long-winded speaker, avold apparent, raid to me: "The being seduced, make

But that is beside the point. only thing that would help the Stradivarius

The poor backward English- violin, and shipbuilding industry is hard

man, though dry, is nonetheless work on every level. A bigger twirl a baton,

left forever ignorant of the output is the secret of maintain-

from

The Englishman is probably Ing the shipyards."

In fact, there are so many of deep joy which springa

having changed one's KWEL

W cunning enough to see the logle the washer. He is dependent upon of the thing. What if someone market that Robert Kingery, a the horrid all-embracing writes a book called "How New York Librarian, has just bureaucracy of his water board Write How-to Book"? published an annotated biblio- or, as the case may be, upon n Sir Jamen, who came. intography of howtolam" Hating battery of tradesmen. Brown's yard as a draughtsman'|| 3,600 liems under 000 head- Mind you, we have had our apprentice, designed the two ings.

aktile cutbursts of "bowlolam”. mighty Queens for Cunard. He is vice-president of the Ship-

started

had a

these volumes

now on

The matter, we are given to Barbers were complaining, not understand, has reached the long ago, about night schools

in

REALISE AT ONCE

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Indeed, the banker who might be tempted to read up on

yard bosser Trade union hip-stage of national mania even amateurs who at casting would

British shipbuilding has

the U. S. Government, striving to amateurs who promptly set realise almost at once that the to keep abreast non-stop boom for nearly 20 has issued a booklet on how to business.

of its citizens, themselves up

part-time heavy metal castor (if that is years almost from the day it wash dishes.

what they are called) is prob Mechanics

and

electricians ably reading "How to bo Your 10. recover from the alump In the *thirties, when

have been known to complain" Own Banker." hardly a

of the same thing. rivot was belog

As for us, wo are prepared to punchett home on

But this is rather different. promise never to read books on on this mighty

The old, deep-seated, urge to corkscrow making justƐng long, dave an odd sixpence or two, as the corkscrew makers honour. even the civilised Englishman la into volumes telling them how asserts itself and, now and then, their agreement never to delve

The

two

worry?

Industry has

even now

FOREVER IGNORANT

river.

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ahead. So why changing the washers, f But what Engilahman, would - "Anyhow, we are quite certain. That is dangerous thinking. Citizen taps, free of charay buy Joseph F. Wergin's How that we could never smake ran Among, the, bosers, if not among Vine: Englishman blokk úp ""*"" to Play Skat, or reed. Dönsit corkame": the workers, there la appreflans falaphone," "The Americais, one I. Rogarni:"THEM - Your Wieseldu omaybe

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