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LABOUR AND. WAGES. DISAFFECTION, AND ITS

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men who have endured so much and isadej so many sacrifices during the war will not scuttle the ship now that it is in sight of pet, if only their leaders have the courage to face the position, and act firmly in controlling and suppressing the wrecking tactics of 'the small minority

CRAFTSMANSHIP AND MACHINERY.

Mach was spoken and written during the war of a new spirit in the relations between employers and employed. Asso ciations representative of both sides have who are obsessed with the notion of the! been formed, many joint conferences beld," clase war.", s and quite a number of wellintentioned schemes framed and launched, having för "their purpose the reasoned consideration of causes of industrial disputes in place. of the anarchic"dislocation of production by strikes. If all the high hopes which waited upon the birth of these schemes had been realised we should indiced have reached the industrial" millenniẩm,

Instead of a steady progrés along the path of industrial peace, the country has beca-plunged into sucession of sporadic strikes, which have flamed up in many quarters in defiance of agreements made bm the trade unions of which they were members, and with a wanton disregard for the equal rights of their fellow workers and the convenience of the public.

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Then there is the imperative need for a revival of the lure of craftsmanship. There are dificulties in the way In TJIKINI most of our industries the old days off hand labour have gone; the machine has taken its place. In a great engineering workshop au seria feeling often comes to one that the machine is almost super buman, and the workman is only a slave feeding its voracious power of produc tion. Thus the pride of the old manual worker in the article of utility or beauty which be fashioned with the trained skill of his own hand has gone, and the inan eruployed on repetition work is condema, ed to follow an occupation wihch palls by its monotonous routine. I have stood by an automatic machine fascinated by the speed and regularity with which per fectly fashioned screws have flowed from

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deep-seated discontent among the general day of the year. Is there not some meats NETH, INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO body of workers. If wo trace the trouble of relieving the monotony of the worker to ris sources, the causes are mainly engaged on repetition work, of giving political and not industrial. The him the instinct and love of craftsman- circumstances of the moment, with the ship There seems to be the opportunity demcbilisation of hundreds of thousands in the machine shops of great engineer of mer from the Army, temporary uning" and other works of uplifting the employment resulting from the switch workers to a higher sense of personal over from war to peace production, with pride in theit, work nerves on edge from the severe strain of fifty-one months of war, all combine to make men restive, and prone to rash, irresponsible action. Concession in one quarter has prompted a score of new daims in other quarters, and thus the circle of disturbance has rapidly widen ed, and grown more menacing in its demands. I believe the great majority of the workers have no real sympathy with the revolutionary phase of the movement; but when a section of their fellow-workers come out on strike they are impelled by a sense of loyalty to stand by them. Thus what is in itself a good quality become a positive danger to the community and also to trade unionism itself.

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I am, however, convinced that along with all the other things which will widen the outlook, raise the status, and beget a proper pride in one's work, there must be a community of material inter- est between employers and employed. Bir Eric Geddes, who speaks with much ex perience of the railway service, put în a plea the other day for letting the workers know the facts. The employer has his difficulties as well as the workman. Letl the workman know the facts, by all means

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What are the remedies for anarchic labour conditions, which imperil the whole structure of British trade? First and foremost I would place a sound

My own opinion is that the best and system of education as a foundation for safer solution of many of the industrial more scientific technical knowledge of difficulties is a wide extension of the trade, of commercial principles, and of system of profit-sharing, grafted upon, economic laws. A few of the larger And supplementary to the existing wage firms, guided by clearness of vision and system. It must be a scheme complete it keen appreciation of their more per its operation, extending from managers manent interests, have already under; and beads et, departments down to the

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technical education for therow emprentice The workmen must have an playdi. The school at the great electrical lithose advantages, which” have come from works of the British Westinghouse Comrade union affort in the payment of fe pany at Old Traford,, Manchester, icognised wage rates, tours of work, and model worthy of general application conditions of service. I do not believe- When the vote was given to the house any employer with experience of proft holders in the boroughs and much bas sharing schemes would dream for a mo sappened since then far-seeing statesment of trying to lower the economic man said, "We must educate our mas position of the worker; certainly any ters. It is because the nation has failed attempt, if such were foolishly made, by to educate the whole people properly, bax employers thinking of adopting the perly given them that little knowledge system, would be a fatal blunder. The which is a dangerous thing, has paid advantages coming-from-the-araten murt little or no heed to the training on be sought in other directions. It con- proper scientific lines of young persons stitutes an ever-strengthening link of in those mentally receptive years between material community of interest; it given the ages of 14 and 18, that much of the the workers a sense of responsibility in industrial trouble and unrest and ten the welfare and prosperity of the cont dency to revolutionary action has its cern; it gives them the facts with inside source and being. The liberty of those knowledge of the difficulties which the years, even from the bonds of parental management has to meet and overcome. aubstantial advantages in restraint, too often degenerates into a These are licenss which is as harmful to the in themselves. But there are other and dividual as it is dangerous to the State. greater advantagea. The worker realizes The effective remedy to use wisely those that the prosperity of the concern resta receptive years when young persons are upon the individual effort of each 'em- growing into manhood and womanhood,ployee; that the interest of the firm is for imparting to them a fuller and wider bis individual interest. Thus production knowledge of the scientific principles of is stimulated, and the beads of depart their industry, of immutable economic ments have the willing help of workers lawe of their personat duty, and respon-who are in complete co-operation, with sibility to the State.

them in securing the largest output for the combined efforts of the whole adminis trative and working staff, I admit the system is not applicable to the whole range of our industries. Sir Eric Geddes has mentioned the difficulties of its ap plicability to the railway system, which is likely to come within the orbit of national ownership; and it looks inappli eable to esential services which are the property of municipalities and local governing bodies.. But there is a wide range of industries to which the system is applicable, and where ita adoption might prove one of the most powerful factors in the promotion of more cordial relations between employers and workers, and remove many of the causes of indus trial unrest,

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OBSERVANCE OF AGREEMENTS. Anything like enduring good relations between employers and employed must be based upon mutual respect, a recognition alike of the rights and difficulties of each other, and a mutual understanding that both are alike interested in the prosperity of the trade in which they are engaged. If the employer depends for bis income upon profitable production, the workmen depend upon the same source for the con- tinuity of their employment and their wages. There must be confidence on both sides in the integrity of the other. That confidente can only rest upon an honour able observance of agreement. If agres ments are allowed to be flouted, if the revolt of a minority causes those who SHARE KESERVED FOR WORKMEN. have signed the agreements to go back upon them and support the revolting It may be pointed out that our limited minority in their action, thero can be liability system, which is now so general- nothing but chaos. The primary remedy" ly the capitalised basis of the largest in- is for the trade unions to deal firmly dustrial undertakings, lends itself pecu with the revolutionary minority in their liarly to the profit-sharing, or what ow ranks, mall in numbers but all might, perhaps, be more aptly called the powerful for mischief, who are destroy partnership system of production. It ing the power and influence of the trade would be a comparatively easy matter in unions, and making collective bargaining the capitalisation of manufacturing.con- a farce. The fature of the trade unions cerns to reserve a fized proportion of the depends upon their capacity to deal with capital for workmen's pastes, which this minority. If they fail their value, might be paid up in instalments over is seriously crippled, and their own period of time as their shares of profits existence jeopardised. Thus place, accrued. And as these workmen's shares high among the remedies for industrial became exbausted, future extensions of unrest a rigid, observance of the sound the concern, and the issue of further capi principle that minfprities must rule, and tal, might be carried through on similar a stern refusal to permit the union or lines. And at the workmen's share in the its members to be used by irresponsible capital of the company need, their outsiders for merely political purposes own interest in its prosperity sould grow If these rules are followed thero is con and the concern would gain a steadying" fidence in the good sense of the zaajority and strengthening our contented of the workers to proceed along lines of body of workers.7- Crespondent

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