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1, BABOM, reduced to 33 degrees Fahren heit, on the level of the sea in fachos, teatbe and hundredthal.
2. Thurraarvan, in the shade, in degree
Fahrenheit.
8. HURDAY, in parentage of saturation, the kumidity of ar anturated with moistars being 100.
4 DIBBOTION OF WIND, to two points.
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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
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Bin meter Lemperäinen Humidity Wind Direction...
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THE TRADE UNION OUTLOOK. THE PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT TO THE TIMES"]
refuse to pay the standard ratos, and thereby often haruss the better employer by their cut-throat competition.
UNIFORM MINIMUM RATE,
POSTS FOR INDIANS. PUBLIC SERVICE REFORME
Important changes in the constitution
the standard rate in any industry, the vices are proposed in the report of the Now, in order effectively to maintain and conditions of the Indian Public Ser facts must first be ascertained, and antho Many of the trade union conditions titatively recorded; and a precise stand Royal Commission, appointed in 1912, that we have pledged ourselves to restore,ard rate, either uniform throughout the under the chairmanship of Lord Ioling have for their object to protect the skilled kingdom for each class of work, or vary on, to inquire into the working of the ing according to exactly delimited and
coterminous geographical existing system and the limitations which craftenen from unemployment. We can completel not, ns nation, bave the shameful districts, must be definitely prescribed. still exist in the employment of Indians. The standard rate, it must be remember. audacity to refuse to restore these condi-se, is never anything but a minimum. Excluding special and isolated appoint tion, without offering an equivalent No employer i provented from paying ments and certain subordinate services, guarantee against unemployment. It is more, and, in fact, there are always some the investigation covered twenty-four de who do pay more, whilst no workman is possible to hope to get the skilled un-prevented from asking more. There in partmente, comprising some 10,000 an gineers, for instance, to endure without no prevention of competition, east of pointments.
all any attempt to give the inferior
It is pointed out that, while Indians. revolt, the sight of labourers and women man the same chance as the superior. doing engineers jobs if trained engine. On the contrary, all experience shows, have been to an increasing extent playing ors are simultaneously walking the streets as the sconomists theoretically demonn part in various branches of public life, strate, that the fixing of a uniform the progress achieved by them in the in search of work. The same is true of minimum rate actually improves the public services has been less marked.
of assigning other trades. The first and the most in position of the efficient man or the man The European and Indian points of view dispensable condition of industrial peace of good character relatively to the in-regarding the problem under the new settlement is that the efficient or the boozer Competition Government shall undertake, by the cans is limited only on the downward way. that are thoroughly understood in the So far as the low-paid trades are con Board of Trade, to prevent the occutccrued, what would suit best would be rence of unemployment, in the same sense an extension of the Trade Boards Act that it prevents the occurrence of cholera (suitable amended) to practically the There will always be sporadic cases, but whole range of industries in which the any continued or widespread uneinploy-gr bulk of the operatives get less than ment must be henceforth not merely re 50s per week. The coalminers have now lieved by doles or futile relief works, or their own arrangement of a similar even by insurance, but actually prevented basis. Much the same arrangement from occurring This can be done would he acceptable to the railway entstandard of the civil administration of soon as the Government chooses by no noyée, the zmployes of the National thing more recondite than such a Government and the local authorities systematic rearrangement, of the neces Probably al occupations without effee sary works and orders of the Government Live trade union organization would find Departments and local authorities over advantage in such a plan,⠀⠀ each decade as will maintain approxi mately level from year to year (includ ing the fluctuating wage bill of capitalist employers) the aggregate wage total of the kingdom.
DEFINITION OF RATE.
dians, and the less controvérsia] JASHXOS larger number of appointments to In- relating to salaries, leave pensions and opinion that. prospects, are briefly stated by the Com missioners, who
ich may seem in spite
dive 03
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TANKS.
The following verses by Dr.-W-Monro Anderson havo been recited before many enthusiastic audiences. by Mia Esmé Beringor.]
used to drive for Tilling's just about
a year ago.
the Bank, All the way from Ealing Broadway to Till they pinched me for the Army, and
in scarcely 'art a mo
Was presented with the Order of the
Tank
I'm a Dreadnought and a Dragon and Hi-
Zepp rolled into one-
In fact I don't know what you'd call
me quite
old machine. I'm a sort of Trench Marine on a giddy
Which it doesn't carry port for star-
board light.
Bhe's a crazy sort of jigger, just a kind
of mongrel tyke,
But it's wonderful the things that she
can do,
ipperpottamus, She's a cross between a rhino nad a
With a dash of all the lodgers in the
·Zoo...
She is what the oary, Buciente called a
hiethysorius,
And she turns the scale at arf a
million tons;
And I've seen or at a meal swallow right
up off the reel
Just about an arf an army corps of
Uns
at first sight formidable, there is not any insuperable antagonism between them. The differences which exist are mainly differences of degree, and not of kind and the Commissioners' object has bean to reduce them to n a common denominator which, whilst maintaining the high Inilia and safeguarding the paramount interests of British rule. will give adequate satisfaction to the reasonable aspirations of Indians and promote he tween the two races the roodwill and But now she's got to like me slie will
come and lick my boots, harmonious co-operation indispensable to
And she'll even cat the shrapnel from "good government
me and
First, as regards organisation, it is This would apparently not be accept able to the skilled and well-organized recommended that where it is necessary. men in such industries as engineering to organise the public services into higher and shipbuilding, the cotton braded lower branches this should be arrang building, furniture, and many small but ed on the basis of the work which they are of, strongly combined crafts which are just required to do and not, as is now in those to which we are under a special some instances the case, of the race obligation to make good our broken or the salaries drawn by, their members. pledges. We are in the difficulty that we or any such artificial distinction. Again, cannot very well safeguard their rates officers promoted from a lower into a until it has been definitely ascertained higher service should ordinarily be given what they are. In their case what seems the same opportunities as officers directly best appears to be the formation of a recruited, and should be eligible on their joint board of employers and employed, merits for appointment to any post in the to which all employers in the industry servios, and all trade unions claiming to include any considerable number of workers in it should be invited to take part of this special inquiry -
RECRUITING ARRANGEMENTS.
Dismissing the idea of any single solu tion of the problem of extending the employment of Indians, the Commissioners deal with it in detail in a series of annexures to the report, covering each of the twenty-four departments. Briefly, it is proposed that the services for which India should continue to be recruited for tecruitment is now made normally in in that country. The Indian france de and also the military face department, partraent should be added to this category if there are no military considerations, to the contrary. Eventually
She's all right when you know er, but
you've got to know 'er first,
For she takes a bit of time to under-
stand;
But a Boches wot upsets er, and
Boche is wat she ates--
Shots aquelone if she appens to Boo
red;
For she's just like all the ladies, and
she'll blow the roof off Eades Before you've time to sit upon er 'ead,
for
been lyin snug and low- Now the Boches in their tronches 'ad
They thought we'd gone to
gone to Blighty fo the day
when the touts was out of sight, But the tanks ad 'awled their anchors Just to do their fmaj gallops for the
fray,
Ti
Aig the Army started with a stop- watch in i 'and,
Took and blew 'is whistle somewhere:
up the line.
And Kari and Ang and Fritz threw
about a dozen fits
While wo gave the blighters Wot Oh!
un the Rhine.
through the tapes. And ad broke into a two-step past Before the gate was lifted we 'ad brokon
the stand
"With
A FROGRAMME OF PUBLIC WORK. During the first decade after peace, for instance, there will inevitably be enor moas public works and orders of the most diverse kind, probably entailing an aggregate expenditure of many hundreds of millions sterling. If these are left to be executed as they have hitherto been, regardless of the state of the labour market, we shall have a worse chaos (and more financial waste) than ever. If the Government guarantees the trade unions against unemployment it would actually save money by framing a 10 years pro- gramme and giving out its orders for all the work that was not urgent deliberate
This joint board should be required, ly in such a way as to keep the nationalhin a certain time, to formulate for wage total approximately level through the whole industry a precisely defined out the decade. This need cost literally standard rate (with possible variations nothing except the "intolerable toil" of
each grade and section of the industry taking thought) to the Government or the fur particular districts) applicfble to nation. N
and based upon the existing practice of Such a policy of actually preventing the best employers in the industry; in the occurrence of unemployment will be the event of the failure of the Board to sporthis issue of fact (what Lar/advantageous to tito amplayeras ingre the workman, The employers will gain i standard rate does, in fact, represent should be taken with the Customeaction. the existing practice of the best employment, but for the present some recruit greatly in continuity of production capital would be fully employed as wellers) the bare issue of fact to be decided. meat in Europe should be permitted, as labour. What they must forgo is the after hearing and inquiry, by Sir The remaining service for which recruit intention or desire, secretly cherished by George Askwith. This is not compulsory ment is now made wholly in Europe, or the less reputable among them, of taking arbitration. There is no suggestion of partly in Europe and partly in India, advantage of periods of unemployment any decision as to what the rate of wages should be divided into three main groups. to worsen the conditions of labour. Any ought to be All that would be in In the first should be placed the Indian such swurscuing, it need hardly he said, question- would be what was, in then celsi ka just showed them to is against the national interest, and must actually prevailing rate, disregarding ment, in which it should be recognised anyhow be prevented. It must, however; alike the 15 per cent. of epiplorers who shat a prependerating proportion of the be ruefully admited that the trade paid more and the lă por cent, who paid officers should be recruited in Europe. unions will be slow to believe even the less. The standard rate so ascertained In the second should come services like the most solumn Government declaration and for the normal week (with any deductions education, medical, public works, and
have, in the personnely continuing to Fledge that this policy of preventing the and allowances provided for) should be on, in which there are grounds of policy occurrence of unemployment is to be enforceable as a minimum on all em-for e forthwick adopted. It is part of the glovers, and not subject to reduction on an admixture of both Western Penalty for our breach of faith that some any excuse whatever. Any increase in the Eastern elements. For these services thing more specific will be required, in wage rates or improvements in condi arrangements should be made for recruit. addition, by the principal unions. Irtions to be settled by agreement between ment in both countries. In the third technical services, such as the agricul view of our special obligations to these trade unions and employers associations should be placed certain scientific and tural and civil yeterinary departments. unious in the skilled crafts, whose reas heretofore.
&c. for the normal requirements of which it should be the aim to recruit eventually in India To this end educational insta- tations should be developed there on level with these now existing in Europe,
PIECEWORK.
sulations we are not so to restore whose cordial acquiescence in the lew settlement we have to procure, the Cluve With regard to pie work it is plain ernment might well undertake (in the that, in order to protect the standard event of its measures to prevent the crate, the employer cannot be allowed to currence of unemployment being so far fix the rates (or tires of bonus system) ansuccessful in particular trades) to pay as he chooses, or merely by individual to the trade union, as liquidated damages, bargaining. The joint heard settling the and quite apart from unemployment in standard rate must settle also its equiva- surauce, £1 per week for every member ent in piecework, as is habitually done for when the employment exchanges were by the trade boards. This should be on unable to find a situation under the con uniform basis of time and a quarter ditions specified in Part II of the or time and a third Where the nature National Insurance Act. If the Go of the work forbids a standard list to be ernment honestly and energetically car-made, there should be in all cases a sel ries out the proposed pledge to prevent guarantee that no workman whom the the occurrence of unemployment which employer chooses to put on piece rates be it remembered, is quite practicable should receive less than time and a quars --such a supplemental guarantee would er or time and a third fur sacli week, deficiencies not being carried forward Moreover, the power to see that the piece work price is really equivalent to the standard time wage (at time and quarter); far as the ordinary workman
cost the Treasury nothing
THE
OF THE STANDARD HATES Second only to protection from them ployment, the motive for the trade urion conditions that we are pledged
To secure, apart from the measures, an increase in the number of Indians employed it is recommended that technical institutions in India should be created or expanded; provision should be made for advertising vacancies; Indian members should he appointed to serve on selection of recruits and, finally, the the committers which will advise on the statistics relating to the employment of miembers of the various communities Opportunities should be created for should be published every ten years. men, and direct recruitment encouraged wherever possible. It is suggested that the when nominating direct recruits authorities in Indis should act with the advice of committees, which should not be purely departmental in character, but is concerned, working at the normal should contain persons in touch with edaen
young
the Boches ugly optics fairly. bulging from their eads
When we did the Rhino Glide on No
Man's Land N
There was Kar, and Fritz and 'Erman with their ands stuck in the air. For the rest of them ad taken to their
showed their paces-- Lor those poor old Boekes faces. Well, it took a month to scrape them
off the wheels,
g
an arf an our
k We nosed around their trenches for about
It was marvellous the way the beggars.
turned the beggars out, And we gave 'em Val de Travers when But the Caterpillar Can-Can was wot
they did.
You may tak of Balaclava, but you
should are sean the tanks. When we sighted old von Sour-Kraut
and is staffe
for Iron Crosses,
So we ad to do without their orty- But the plans on their 'prses wasn't out
grarf
aord of buffalo Then we tango'd into Flers to find We bullocked through their trenches like
pub,
by oldin' up is and, While the bloke who come to stop us just Well, we barged im through the rail-
in's of and th
We was just a kind of sort of travellin'
sausage foundery,
For we wiped out arf the town before
we lunched.
When the blighters in the 'ouses got the
wind fair up their troncs, And they wouldn't stop to are their
tickets punched
to restore, is that of maintaining the speed, under normal conditions, shall be tonal institutions, and should also have through the grating andi
standard rates of wages. It is clear that entrusted to a couple of salaried rato a non-official and an Indian element il we have to go back on our word, sneixers, one appointed by the employers Publicity, should be given to all vacancies, association and the other by the trade and applicants should be forbidden to refuse to restore these conditions, we must in common decency undertake that union, who shall be called in to adjudi- bring outside pressure to bear on there shall be nowhere any lowering of cate by any employer or any workman, individual members of the committees A or nibbling at, the standard rates. More and whose decision as to the equivalent similar procedure should be followed in piecework rate shall, if they agree, be England. The Commissioners hold that over, it is certain that any attempt, after anal. If they do not agree they shall in the present condition of India so the war, to reduce rates, at any rate so long as the cost of living remains high vintly nominate an umpire, with whom general system of coruretitive examinas they shall consult, and whose decision tiong as a means of entry to the public will lead to the most industrial trouble shall to final. The necessary staff of services is suitable, but where such a The good employer," the employer on
maintained, Jurga scale, the well-equipped and com rate fixers shall be appointed to enable method existe it should ordinarily be petent employer, does not seek any such all disputes to be settled without delay, reduction, on the contrary, he is often work proceeding meantime uninterrupt- found conceding conditions, superior to edly. This is the device which has proved what is the standard in his industry, but successful, under one or other name in every large industry there are los among the brassworkers and some of the paid districts, in which, mainly through palminers. _______
1 local weakness of organization, rates of There would need to be many minor wages are below the preva ling standard safeguards of the standard rate; includ Sonictimes a whole class of work, like ing v
(a) Each workman to be paid for a full agricultural implement making or sewing machine making in the engineering, in-week until definitely discharged with the dustry, will be paid at rates scandalous mecessary notice, irrespective of inter ly below that of other branches of the it ruptions due to weather, shortage of dustry. More important still, there is materials on orders, stoppages of machi usually a fringe of employers who, benery, etc., d cause of their inferior equipment, or (Work in excess of the normal work their ora incompetence, or merely be to be paid for at overtime rates of time cause of their short sighted desire to and a half or double time, squeeze the last drop of blood out of (r) No deductions to be made for fines, those who are subject to them, habitually breakages; bad, work, ete
NEW AGE LIMIT.
They sniped
they bombed us from, be ind They were 'eavin' round old iron overy-
where
their armour-plated corsets, But the tanks, they ardly felt it through.
It
And they didn't even turn a single air, was Daly's and the Oxford and the
Pay rolled into one
An we eet to partners on the blighters':
damus,
Chaplin on the pictures Asn't art the comic antics of a tank. Daily Express,
And of all the funny mixtures, Charlie
In regard to salaries generally, it is recommended that the Government should pay so much only na is necessary to
wa generally as betwon the amount obtain recruits of the right stamp, and
down services the normal requirements of which to maintain them in such a degres of
theta eficient from temptation, and keep
will eventually be met in India, the comfort and dignity as will shield them payable to the two classes of obcers. In Salaries to be paid to Europeans and
considered suitable for statutory natives ettled for each darvice should be statutory natives of India respectively standard scale of salaries should be that separately and ordinarily in accordance of India, and special rates should be fixed- pensideration of race or place of recruited In certain services in which which equality of pay has long been an estab with this principle, and so on any for Europeans for so long as they are Fratment In services in
this should be maintained, lished practice different rates are found to heritable Proposals are added for removing griov
would be fixed on the merits of each case, and no proportion should be laid anoes and simplifying the procedure in relation to allowances and leave, and for
roving the pensions scales. (Continued at foot of next column.)
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