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“ATLAS MARU”

THE DANGER OF INDUSTRIAL DETERIORATION.

HY HARTLEY WITHERS |

Speaking at York on Easter Eve, Me Ramsay MacDonald called attention Su the serious problem that has to be facci by workers and employers and tax payers in this and all other industrial countries. He said that the greatest danger that Germany offered to Europe now, was not the danger of arms; it was the danger of industrial deterioration.

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If they compelled Germany abandon, the eight-hour day and leter-) Fiorate its currency, they would create conditions by which the British workman working eight hours a day for £, £3 or E a week would have to compete with the Gemap workean working ten hours a day for waurs of 308...or £2 a week. No long as a false iden of patriotic duty and a stupid idea, of military security kept Ger. many in that position, so long was the grent industrial meuner of Germany kept going, and the future of this country was held in jeophrdy." This problem, he de- clared, affected our pockets far more than the Tory party had yet discovered."

CONFUSED TRINKING.

As thus reported by the Daês – this Prime Minister seems to have treated his Eastertide audience to a fine medley of confused thinking, for which the neces- sary condensation of the report may have been responsible. It is not easy to see how any action on our part can compet Germany to abanilon the eight-hour day. If it is abandoned, the abandonment will be due, not to any mensure taken by the Allies, but to action on the part of the Germs employers, and agreed to by covered that the eight-hour day has not German workers, because they have dis

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effects on our pockets of such an act of industrial reaction in Germany, and its alleged neglect by the Tory party, surely Mr. Macional is incorrect in implying, as he seems to do, that the enlightened arty over which he presides is the only one that had the foresight to detect this danger For. you past Tories and Liberals had miers of all shitles of opinion. have been telling us of the threat to

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Three years ago we were solemnly as sured that Gerinany was capturing the trade-of the world by depreciating her currency, and it was implied, that we ought to get out on the same path if we were to save the few remaining rag of British prosperity. This curious con- tention was, one had hoped, long ago. dead buried, though still cherished by a

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compel." Germiny to deteriorate her currency, we shall be assisting her to win an industrial triaph." Surely, it is now rreognized that the advantage secured to a country's export trade by a fall in the value of its money shortlived. In Germany the advantage, such as it is was enjoyed by her exporters to an eation. Even as it is, telegrams from Ger- tent that is unparelled in currency his tury, and yet her export trade can hardly be said to have driven us out of the world's markets.

Ir .. PROUCKY SERIOUS ENOUGH.

found that the German workman has views of his own on industrial deteriora-

many occasionally tell us something about industrial unrest, and demands for. higher wages. In the meantime it is, all to the good that our employers and workers should take sérious inensures to It is still harder to see what "a false deal with the situation that will arise Iden of military security can have to as industrial competition becomes more do with a longer day's work on the part fierce, as it certainly will do, if ever the of the German workman.. Presumably restoratim of real pence in Europe per- Mr. MacDonald was referring to the ints the revival in trade that is only held tention, expressed by the French Prime back because the rulers of the rutions Minister, of France to maintain her persist in maintaining a bad inter- inilitary occupation until Germany, as national temper. If we cannot work as paid, the indemnity. This intention cheaply and well as anybody else, no be right or wrong, but it seems most political or fanncial ingenuities will likely to compel the German workman enable us to maintain our export trade, to work for longer hours in the day, or to which is the backbone of our prosperity." take a smaller wage for his work. In fact, it seems which more likely to hava the contrary effect.

Nevertheless, the problem is quite serious enough without complicating it with irrelevancia or rather it is KO serious, that it ought to be faced, broadly and simply. And when we do so, vo shall probably and that, like most other problems, it losses some of its terrors.

Gerany, we are told, has greatly "im prover her industrial equipment sindo. the war. So have we and most of the other important industrial nations." The German workannt, we are told, is pre pared to work harder during longer hours in each week than his British rival. On the other hand, some people tell us that the urban population in Ger- many has een so long, and so seriously underfed, that the German worker is not nearly so efficient a competitor as he was before the war: while yet another version of the mafter says that all classes in Germany, with the exception of the professionals and officials, are prospering at the expense of Germany's opdid creditors, and of fie thousands of spe culatora all over the world, who have made presents to her by buying marks which have since become worthless

COMMON BESSE VIEW

Our of this confused tangle of con tradictions, it seems better to seize and "hold the fact that the German workman i8, after all, a very, human being, who has been through some exceedingly trying experiences in the last few years, bus, retains the natural instinct that guides most of us when we start out to earn our daily bread,' and causes us to get the best terms that we can for the work that we do in the process. He is not going to work long hours a day for the fun of the thing, or for the pleasure of putting large profits into his employer's pocket, or for the satisfaction of enabling the German Government to pay an indem nity to the victorious Allies. If and when ap improvement in Germán trade causes, an increase in the demand. for labour in Germany, it will probably

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