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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29TH, 1919.

MOUTRIE'S

PIANOS

TO

HIRE

FROM

$10

Per MONTH.

TUNING

• AND

REGULAR ATTENTION

INCLUSIVE.

J

AEGER

FINE PURE WOOL

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BRITAIN'S OVERSEAS TRADE CONSULAR SERVICE WORK.

SPECIAL MISSIONS ABROAD

Important recommendations are jade in the repart, issued on September 9th of the committee appointed to examine thus question of Government machinery for dealing with trad and commerce,

are,

CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

"A GREAT NATIONAL FELLOW-

SHIP".

In the Economic Science and Statistics section of the British Association, as the annual congress on September 9th., fr. F. Huth Jackson read a paper on

The

that a group of three employers and four

great movement towards

Be ho iniddle cours.

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STATE AS EMPLOYER. NATIONALISATION CRITICISED.

HOW TO" INCREASE WAGES,

a inau is smployed, but on thing it can' not do and that is compel the employ

ment of the ma

at a wage which the price of the article he proches will not

In the section of Economic Science and suffice to pay. The man will remain un- That is the drastic remedy Statistics at the congress of the British employed.

Those who cried out against capital, he co But this remedy is only applicable said, overlooked the fact that in modern to some small part of fur total product. industries no afin could be set to work | When we come to such industries as l except by means of a capital sum first new talked of it is impossible. We must found for the purpose. In the industries make the industry self-contained.

same were to cruce,

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OASTER PRODUCT NEEDED.

National Allinnes of Employers and Em Association Sn September 9th the pros which premie w impors. We may In the main, the Committee have given yed. He stated that it was in 1916sidential address was delivered by Sirescnp it by making up from some other source the deliciency it we icist att their attention to (15 the machinery for trade unionis met to discuss the prob Hugh Bell, whereiew the present

having the article and fuse to pity the commercial purpose in foreign countries. able affect which war conditions would industrial situation. hud particularly the tunsul cor crane malt and unpretentious gathering was to To that industrial system. on our commercial attaches, and (2) the organi sation at home, and especially the rela be traced not only the National Alliance tions between the Foreign Offic, the of Employers and Employed, but she Board of Trade, and the Department oferative effort which now promised to Overseas Trade Deding frat with the Consular wers the Committer say it remould our industrial life, and which appears now to be agreed on all sides recretly led to the calling by the Govern that this service should remain unterment of the National Industrial Confer kriew best onething over £200

The hupe that by transferring its the control of the Foreign Office. Consuls,enge and the setting up, of the National nedent y put a war to work. The pos

Joins Industrial Council. although largely concerned with commer From the commencement they realised pulation of this country increased at the ownership to the State, from the elal questions, have uther and most im portant duties to perform, and inded that in industrial development there could rate of about 1 per cent pe anunt,dividual will enable us to pay mom is

The old enemies. as reprsentatives of the British Capital and Labour, had either to plunge This meant that for every 1000 men, to toredoomed to disappointment. Thesis Groterument, the guardian, of the in

into more bitter and more widespread whour employnient was being given about indeed one "and only one-way in whigh terests of British subjects in place steif, or to discover a common ground on ten youths were rents to be set to work higher wages can be obtiged. That is by greater presinet per unit of capital where no diplomatic mission is stationed. which they could get together and for ench year and something over 2000 Even in relation to matters which are themselves work out the lines of harmoni must be found your by year to give them and per unit of wage. If an article now produced at a combined capital and purely commercial. the influence nous progress. In the face of innumerable employment. It was not wy unrenson prestige of the Coneblas officer is depend-difficulties the national alliance had disable boast for a captain of industry to labour cost of, say, 100 aut, by improved.

mon ground eat to a great extent en his connection covered that summon

sold for 100, and its capital is still satis with the diplomatic missior to which he thirty of the most importan and today say that in this respect he bad performed methods, be produced at, say, so and soil.

trial his duty to the community

One further point must be made. Men fed with its fermer share, then the whole is immediately responsible. Nor do they districts in the country joint area com

saw some great enterprise (and the rail of the extra 20 will eping to labour. consider it practicable permanently to mittors were working in harmony and place the appointment and contro of naderstanding, not only for the peaceful ways would serve very well na an exam Long experience wachay mo that it is in Consul under one department, and the reorganisation of industry as such, but plet, and looked up is as a capitalist this way that wages have advanced in But when the circum- the past, and that in this was aloue can supervision of their work of collecting for the develop of higher social

was found they be further increased in the future. commercial intelligence and safeguarding ditions and the raising of the standard of organisation:

life.

multi- But is may be said that those inost it. The machinery of the national news were examined it

w that

'consisted commercial interests under another.

COM concerned are not striving alone, un even The Consular officers and commercial allinner was designed not only to bring

time emplovers and employed of a given tude of small holdings, and secretaries who are evidence before the inistry gether for the settlement ofparatively few of large amount. In the chiefly for higher wages, but desire to corsstre were unanimous in their opin-their own special problems, but is, to North-Eastern Railway something like participate in the management and to ion that consule would be placed in 40 link up the employers and employed of all 100,000 shareholders held the £1.000.000 bear their part in deciding the questions of policy which up to dow have been in impossible position if they were to be an industries in a particular area is a joint of capitals of varkus, deaminations pointed and controlled by the Foreign endeavour to improve the general condi-ay, on the average, som £1,600 each, the hands of the employers. To this no Offic white their

ons in that aret.

Consider the widespread distress which fundamental objection can be raled. commercial» work | tion which the national alliance would be caused if the income from the The more enopletely th- arm engagin fwhich it is hoped, will in the, futur an unrivalled

any enterprise understand it the better We have ready for your Inspection

form the most important part of their had taken in hand was a great and diffi-

He bad made a similar calculation fori; will probably be to whole But duti would be enrried, out for aanther Idisplay this famous ALL PURE WOOL wear, including

department and would pass through telt one, but on its accomplishment de

pended the future of our country. The large colliery "undertaking in which large questions of polequire ktrow- Forrien Offer if at all, only as a channel vil gentures of hate and struggle between he was interested, with the following ledge and appreciation of circumstances Underwear, Shirts, Sweaters, Pyjamas, Dressing Gowns

of communication. They urge that the the forces of Capital and Labour had result. The capital in shares and deber which can with difficulty be acquired by tury was about £1,300,000. There were persons whose life.is.necessarily pased in department which appoints, pays, oro built high and wide their

barriers of They Slippers and Mufflers

motes, and controls the consuls should be antagonism and dark mistrust.

Each shareholder, est information should be given to the in a position to take a live interest in could not be swept away in a day, but the just over 1.500 shareholders. They em- quite other surroundings. That the full- therefore, provided employment for about persons in question cannot be denied" of the work which they have to do, and able experience of the national alliance had ployed 300 méh. to appreciate in at its proper value. « shown that on each side there was an three men and held on the average £75. The claim to

increasing number of earnest, thoughtful. On the question, of improvement in

The far-seeing men who were realising the Before long they would require fuber management lyng quite Beyond their the conditions of the Consular service

errors of the past and who were willing capital. They saw their way to enlarge competence ennnot be coned it. the summittee as they nos convinced that

erunt divest itself of its responsibility" an epfarrepent of the 'cnsus staff and to jota in a great national fellowship for their operating and so to provide en final impulse comes from one mind which

Workmen plorment near to their homes for the the security of the future.

nor exercise it under such conditions a improvement in its training and

must recognise that they must give a full 5fty to sixty youths whp, each year, Brow

those suggested would impose." to nanhood and needed productive em statue are urgently required. They a day's work for a full day's pay, and the

In conclusion, Sir Hugh Bell said they derstand that the War Cabinet his

burdens on the community. They hoped must obtain a larger product if they were perle approved a scheme put forward management of a business from the raw ployment if they were not to become

the finished product, must ne material

the hands of this employer.

thefr 1,500 shareholders would have laid to have more to divide Restrictions in 31.

which was necessary for this purpose the Legislature, the will of the worker or They were assuming they or someone (let them add) the hindrance of a tariff, would provide it, for they were using would fail to effect this. None of the their resources (reserves and depreciation short cuts, now proposed would lead shem Can we convince those funds in this way, and shortly it would to their gan. Ibe incumbent on them to fund this obli most deply interested of the truth of this. The task is not an easy one, for The president, Sir Hugh Bell in open-gation and add it to their capital.

Let them be very cautions how they promises without end are made to accom ing the discussion, said it was essential that employers and employed should get interfered lest they produced evils, in plish what is desired without pursuing to understand the respective standpoints änitely greater than those which it was the patient und laborious course which What, for example; alone can lead to a happy solution. For two parties. Dealing with Sir sought to remove. of the tection hy the War Cabinet of Fof the Wade's paper, he remarked that i would those Alty to sixty young men saytiny part, I rely on the common' sense of

Charles

The speedy no sooner did the Government interfere they replied to their applications to my than all questions of

disappear. given work with them thas all their abolition of all artificial prices by which ed: Was the State really an entity to which they could turn for the solution of resources had been used in paying addi-we shall get to know the real gust of what tional wages, and they had accordingly we buy will be a great help. We may their difficulties Had they not to conte back to the proposition that all the com: been obliged to let their plant deteriorate hope that on this will follow an earnest instead of adding to it, and that. far desire on the part of all to do their best modities of the community must be self

are best productive must pay the cost of produc. from offering additional employment, they for the commonweal-convinced that on

feared they might have to dismiss men this intelligent eltruisur we

serving our own ends. A better division ion (Hear, bear)

to whom they at present gave work? am one of those people." be pro-

of industry, would ensue. The net result "who very much doubt that there

would be a happy and contented nation. the parent departments. It will be forch

thing as profiteering. (Hear,

in which the efforts of each would be more .. the Board of Trade to formulate the bear.)

am not only an iron-master and commercial policy of the country, and if coal owner, which is a desperate conf

guided by the common welfare than by the selfish desire for the ädvantage of the, will be the duty of the Department of sion to make-laughter) but I am also Overseas Trade to carry it out so far as a farmer, and

individual," it relates to overseas trade. Oothe

shameful confessuring the war-it is

made a 'great deal question of co-operation between this of money at farming. I had a beast department; and the Foreign Offer the which was sold for £17 before the war committee say:

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to

deal with matters

by Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, far nima? Chis G. Wud read a paper on by enough to provide the £12.000 a year output. whether produced by the act of

"Price Fixing with Special Reference to Australian Experience. Lorically, he said, the only effective policy was for the Stute in control the channels of produe

in dorm to the development of the Con- anlar service, including the creation of new pests, training, no and allowners, and they remmend, thor the parts of this sebem which have been so approved he brouebt into operation as early as postion. sible. In this connection they" add that, While than oneciate thy, objecting; to sanctioning the payment to a particular clage of civil riants of anlarim free from income-tax they think that, in view

this recommendation, thus eale of nay will require revision.

NEED FOR COUPERATION.

After dealing Fally with the Commer. cial Diplomatic Service Board of Trade, attarbes. temporary missions, the com- mittee arrive at the conclusion tha, the Department of Overseas trade should continue. As at present constituted, and should receive the full support of both

13

QUESTION OF PROFITEERINO.

move small difficulties, but it was not adequate as a general solution of the

Sir Robert Eadfeld,

INCENTIVE OF INDIVIDUAL GAIN.

Passing on to consider the wide spread tendercy towards what is some- what vaguely called Nationalisation. Sir Hugh Bell said:

Let us asume for the present purpose that it signifies that the State shall be come the niner of any enterprise which is nationalised it owns the business

Inok to it for inseructions and guidance Council of the Nationmember of the parcels has not

therasclyen.

ment.

fellow

countrymen.

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EX-SOLDIERS AND HOUSING SCENE IN COUNCIL CHAMBER

Dur-

;" A butcher offered me £24. Supposing the Post Office. the Telegraphs, and the We consider it desirable to urge that said, No, you can have it for £17. Do Telephones. Let us ask what advantage think anybody would have had will be gained by the assumption of the Foreign Ofes shall take care that you

Frofit-sharing could re- it is impressed upon his Majesty' Minia beef cheaper?

A centralised management ownership.

At Newport County Borough Council ters and Consul abroad that the Depart

even of so simple a business as that of on September 10th.; there was an amazing ment of Overseas Trade is in fact a part

collecting and distributing letters and scene in which ex-soldiers were in con-

been an unqualified troversy from the public gallery in the of the Foreign Office, and that they must

Council Chamber with the Mayor and. Alliance, aid success. Where the business is more rum. in commercint questions. We think it

Success has been even less conspicuous tion of housing. The Newport Housing neers to emphasise this for the reason that twenty-five years ago be tried to start plicated, as in the other example, the members of the Corporation on the ques that, the commercial diplomatic witnesses in London the Industrial Union of Em- who have appeared before us have comployers and Employed. He found great What reason have we to hope then in s Committee have not yet been able to make intricate matters as the railways or the start with their building schemes, but, sympathy on the part of Labour, but very plained that they do not know to whom little on the part of the employers. Had mines botter results will follow Thets the need for houses is so great, it was to look. For instructions and that the the movement gone on it would have solved incentive of individual gain will have da proposed to take possession of a military

day. There

appeared, and with it the readiness in hospital, formerly the workhous status of the Department of Overseas many of the difficulties of to-day. Trade is not appreciated or understood were now seven diferent organisations accept such risks as those to which rearing the consideration of the Housing in several of the British embassies in with similar objects, and he

thought it

ence has already been made. We ay Committee's report it was mentioned that foreign capitals.

was time they had more co-ordination. easily find that the developments Der led it was proposed to accommodate in this The failowing summary of recommen- From his works in Sheffield he brought to find employment for our young pple building sixty separate families, with an dations is added to the report:

150 men and boys to London. They visit are not forthcoming; for without ich ultimate limit of 1,000 persons, for the ed scientific institutions, and some of the risks being taken no growth of employ whole building. AKRUAD. That the Consular Service remain boys wrote essays on their experience.nent will take place. Unless I nob The ex-soldiers in the gallery protest There was no extremism or Bolshevism in mistaken a great temptation will to puted that to provide for sixty families was ander the control of the Foreign Office.

That the proposals in the scherne for them. The boys were all out to improve before politicians to make conccess to of the real use, as there were BC families, the reform and develonment of the Con-

the huge army of voters who will be in in the town who needed accommodation." ular and Diplomatic Service, other theo

the direct employment of the Govern The Mayor informed the interruptors those which relate to the Trade Commis

that unless order was maintained it xioner, Service and Labour Attache, Be

"The experience of these Eve pears bas would be necessary to clear the gallery, adopted.

failed to teach the lesson that you not Imiately there was an uproar, and touch one branch of labour without affect the were cries of "We have fought ing all others. An advance of wages one, we can light again." The men de given to one section will inevitably be fied the Mago, to oriler, their removal. demanded by all others. The result will There was a tremendous babbub, lasting be prejudicial to the whole community.

a quarter of an hour, during which As regards each individual trade it may members of the Corporation and ex-sold- be of little moment what we call the iers shouted at each other from floor to wages the wage carper bas, in the past, gallery and from gallery to floor. obtained a certain (very large percent Counciller E. A. Charles, sympathizing That the War. Trade Intelligence De age of the whole value of the product; with the soldiers. threw oil on the trou-- partment he transferred to the Depart whether it is called one hundred or two bled waters. The chairman of the Hous (Councillor William ment of Overseas Trade except as to those hundred is of little moment, unless indeeding Committee branches which may be more conveniently be can succeed in obtaining for himself Evans ex-Mayor) contended that the transferred to the Board of Trade. higher rates of wage than those prevail. Fault was not with the Housing Com That a standing committee or boarding in other industries. But as regards mitteo or the Corporation, who had done be formed for the discussion of matter international trade, the position may be all they could but with the Government relating to overseas trade, to consist of very different and we may find ourselves departments. One soldier said they had the heads of the Board of Trade, Foreign shut out of foreign markets because our returned from the front, and were living Office; and Department of Overscna Trade, wages are made artificially high, just as like cattle. The original interruptor.. with power to call is representatives of we should be excluded if, for example, asked, "Is it right for an ex-soldier, his other departments, and that such stand the shipowners could compel us to pay wife, and six children to be living in one He characterised two-thirds of ing committee or board meet at regular inordinate freights on some indispensable room 1 and frequent intervals.

raw material like cotton,

the council as fossilised, and said they Acute will speedily come, but it may ought to give up their meats and submit... core after, great suffering has been in themselves to the electors. If the council flicted on the whole community, Par had had any foresight" or vision they liament can easily impose on the employ would have prepared for soldiers before Order was eventually er, whether a private individual or the they came home. State, the payment of a certain wage if' restored.

That suitable office accommodation be forthwith provided for the Department That the Board of Trade be authorised of Overseas Trade in close proximity from time to time, after consultation with the offices of the Foreign Office and with the Foreign Office, to send tempo the Board of Trade, and, if possible, rary missions for special purposes to that the three departments be housed in foreign countries, such missions to be the same building. ander the control of the embamy or lega- That the Consular and Commercial tion concerned, and that for this purpose Departments of the Foreign Office be Bum be included yearly in the Bourd transferred to the Department of Over

of Trade estimates.

That the Board of Trade by represent- ed on the selection and promotion com. mitters for the Consular and Commercial Diplomatic Service.

That British representatives abroad be recommended to keep in touch with the British Chambers of Commerce formed in the countries to which they are apre dited.

AT HOME.

That the Department of Oversens Trade continue as at present, under the joint control of the Foreign Offico and the Board of Trade.

That the Board of Trade remain res

Bene Trade.

AGAINST DUAL CONTROL

ponsible for general commercial policy, Mr. Dudley Docker, in the course of a had that it be the duty of the Depart minority report, says he considers that ment of Overseas Trade to give effect to the system of dual control of the Depart that policy overseas.

ment of Overseas Trade is as the rest of » (Continued at foot of next column.)

the trouble.

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