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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1957.

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"But surely, monsieur, it's pleasanter to be blown up by a Western shell than a Communist shell."

Are we too mean with

men

the the top?

at

That

frustration?

incentive that, of course, can be achieved burned much less keenly? Can only if the man with the biggest you be surprised that the rail- pay packet moves up several ways have given such deplorable rungs himself. service?

This sort of thing runs through all the State-owned Industries. And Government service itself is riddled with anomalies,

From long tradition the man who looks after our beer duties and obacco tax is paid £0,000. But would you regard this job as more important than Unt of The Controller of Guided Missiles, man 11/1 whom

IS Britain lagging in the revolutionary advance Brits' recurity largely

of science and technology, now transforming the world, because we are too mean to the boss?

Can it be true that our best hope of regaining the lend lies in handing out much bigger rewards to our scientific and industrial leaders?

Fantastic ques-

tions, you may say UNDER-PAYING

OUR

How preposterous

should pay more to

in suggest that we SCIENTISTS CAN

END

men high in the

surlax cans when OUR HOPES IN

the Government is

busily clamping RACE

TO THE

THE STARS

e

down on pay rises

for men and women

who have a weekly struggle

to make ends meet,

gets an old-fashioned capitalist bonus on top.

It is pretty safe to say that no But there are several manager or such a steel plant in good reasons why these Bittain has a pay packet of that questions must be taken size, Indeed, there are manug- ing directors who draw much seriously.

Jess.

ONE REASON IS THE RED MOON TAUNTING US UP IN THE SKY. ·

pends?

de-

Yet the Government pays Mr Cockburn, the holder of this port, only £4,250 усп.

And our top scientifle brains of all, Sir William 'Penney, and

Certainly there is a great deal more we can leam from the Sputnik than merely trying w and out what sort of fuel sent it soaring into outer space.

gim by

Bernard Harris

HONGKONG EXPORTER and Far Eastern. Importer

By C. M. Wolosh, Duddell Street, Hongkong THE

Exporter and Far Sir John Cockerajt, are paid eleventh post-war edition of The Hongkong

only on a par with the Custom and Excise, bor3-£6,000

car.

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Now it may true that neither of these men is personally timbitious. They may

Eastern Importer

contains

within its 292 pages all that can be known about buai- nesa in Hongkong in particular, and the Far East in general.

It is well got up and excellently finished, its print is clear and

be content with their pay and bold, and its classification and Indexing of a nature that wil who wants to find out as much as The honours-kulghthueds, and appeal to the business man

can. in the shortest degrees at have he

lowered on theme Theit time possible. On pages 5 and own contribution to Britain's 7 is given a

products and

lentific advance might not be

increased in the slightest if their pay were doubled.

But that is not the point. The overwhelmingly important thing| is this:

THE PAY OF THE MAN AT THE TOP FIXES A CEIL ING FOR EVERYONE

BELOW HIM. This

complete and arranged index

alphabetically wares associated

with the Colony, also, of course, professional consultants resident within Hongkong.

Beginning with Advertising Consultants, the list works its way through Belts and Gems, to Ginger and Zippers.

Included within its pages are Is equally true of the Atomic Energy Authority, thea number of well written nationalised industries, the articles dealing with the various Civil Service, and free enter aspects of the Colony's economy. price industry.

along-

in the coal industry the story is much the same, Management of a group of pits-a job rated

The Hongkong Exporter and Far Eastern Importer is a Another is the Tu114. at about £3,000 a year in Bri- nin-is worth nearly £10,000 in

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veritable Who's Who of Hong- world's largest turbe-prop Russia. Why, even our own Sir WHAT is the result of paying Kong's Commercial World, airliner, which, with it James Bowman, who as bees of W the man at the top toe Heide names of firms and pro-

names of old concerns aped and immerse range, is the Coat Ecard is responsible for

Simply this. The young

ducts more recent to the well ahead of any Western at the pits in Britain, is paid executives and managers, the

only £7,500 a year. nircraft

Young scientists and technicians, Colony's history. And then you turn to science are squeezed between a

low Another is Russla's huge the contracts are

even

more celling and a ring floor. turbo-prop helicopter

which startling. puts the West's best helicopters to shame.

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THERE

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her

Dr Kurt Mendelssohn, of Oxford University, hna revented thut a top-class physicist is paid up to 30,000 roubles a

They do not work as hard as

Optimism Justified

they might. The urge to do a Periicularly interesting is the first-class Job is lacking. Thereforeward from the publisher,

is little or no inanciul incentive. M. Woloch, whese optimistie month. lo spur nen Into secking report is quite justified by the are also Russla's long-

That Is nominally equal to promotion. They or tempted facts he presents. range, rocket-carrying sub- 32,000 a year in our money. to look abroad for jobs with On the ather hand,' the marines

atomic- But a more accurate picture is brighter grospeels,

Statement of the Chairman of powered ice breaker.

A het

given by Mendelssohn's calcula- A Government appointed į the General Commliice. 10 growing threat to Britain's over- tion that in Britain a wood phy- committee recognised this when membera of the Hongkong beas markets in heavy machinery sicist receives seven times as it urged more pay for the top General Chamber of Commerce, ard industrial equipment. much as unskilled labourer, men in the electricity industry is not so encouraging.

ALL THESE ADD UP TO 1 Russin he gets 25 times, not because they were hard He says, among other things,

AN ACHIEVEMENT 50 uch

MIGHTY`„THAT ANYONE So can there be any doubt FORECASTING IT A FEW about the reasons for Russia's YEARS AGO WOULD HAVE

triumphs? BEEN WRITTEN OFF AS

Brains are treated like any MENTALLY UNBALANCED. ather commodity. By paying a Does it mean then that Com high price for them an abundant munism has already won the

supply is assured where they fight for the future? Doey 1

pressed to make ends meet but "we are still very much in the because of the stimulus it would wood and until such time as we give to the technicians and are permitted to trade more junior executives.

freely with, our tural mariset, the Mainland of China, in the wood we shall remain,"

But

contents from

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reason the

the

has handed of the admirable publication

all that can enn be used to greatest advant- out an extra £60 a week to Sir A

be gathered note of Harold Smith, head of the gas is a

optimism. In Russia today the old industry. He probably did not with the details of Hongkong's

Ideas egalitarian

been need it, but his move up the commerce, this must be one of

out age.

prove that the one-class ideas of Morx and Lenin work better in practice than aur own

from it.

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have

free enterprise principles? Far buried. In their place are pay scale has enabled the pay of the the brightest publications of ite differentials wider probably 12 ares gas board chairmen to kind. "It is absolutely a must than in any country in the be raised by £2,000 a year, for all who trade In Hongkong world. wo

It's dus of cell that re TT is true, of course, that in

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leci to believe that there was no UT in Britain? Here the dif gret differencu between the

little.

ferentials

of

between the boss and the humblest labourer, highest-paid and the lowest- In that workers' paradiso paid have been steadily closing. It is beyond dispute that most material reward counted for

Everyone was content to of the men at the top swent and toil for the greater industry and the professions are glory of Communism.

worse off than before the war. But the wage-earners and many

inve improved their position.

Nationalisation has been

That was the legend. But how different are the facts. of the lower-paid salary earners

The Russians now admit that

If you want to progress scientif- cally and industrially at un-

big influence in this contraction.

mutched speed there is nothing Take a singic example from the

to beat that old capitalist device railways,

be

all who trade with If the Government thinks and this richt for the gas men, Hongkang,

The Hongkong Exporter and why not also for our far more

Importer can atomic experts Far Eastern Important Why not try the same tone obtained from:

Wolosh's Enterprizes, for the higher-grade scientists

8, Duddell Street. and

technicians in its own

Hongkong, employ Industry would soon be forced 10 follow Its example.

The widening of pay differen- tials-ešpecially if it were com~ bined with less sleeply graded taxation could soon transform the outlook for Britain.

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hari caslı, Money jingling in In the old days when the TOR how can you get the best the Docket is the greatest Great Western was the best results when, the young men Incentive of all.

B

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rallway in Britain, ile general on whom the country's future manager was paid £12,000 a depends live in a state of con- year. Then came the State stant financial frustration?.... ECAUSE of the artificial Lake-over. The general manager Wordled, whether they can othere rouble-pound exchange rate was replaced by a chief regional afford, to got married....

to send their children to the

It is dimeuit to make a straight officer. Pay for this job was worried whether they can afford comparison between pay rates.fixed at £3,000 a year.. ia Russia and Britain.

The result this, of course, right- schools,others whether Too low as they can, shoulder: the- bürden But British steelmen who was to fix much have visited Russia calculato· éciting for the top executives of buying a house, that the manager of an avarage- inen like, the chief mechanical sized steel plant receives a re- engineer and the chief operating disappear if they knew that auch ward equal to £12,000 a year in superintendent Need you rung up the ladder brought an Britain, And if output goes up wonder there was a foiling of adequate additional rower, And

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All these frustrations would

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