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WORK-A BLESSING OR A CURSE?

SOME OF THE THINGS THAT MAKE IT WORTH

WHILE.

THE SPIRIT OF THE TRENCHES.

[BY THE VERY Rzv, W. R. INGE, D.D., DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S.}

When-our-first-paronts were, driven out of Paradise Adam is be- lieved to have remarked to Eve: "My dear, we live in an age of transition." The chief feature of the change was that henceforth Adam and his descendants had to work for their living...

Was this really a punishment There are still a few isies of the Lotus Eaters. where food grows wild. Their inhabitants bave re-

mained savages. Kingsley in his "Water Babies" condemns those who have migrated from the land of Hard-Work to the land of Ready-] Made to a still heavier fate-they climb up their ancestral tree, and become apes once more. Carlyle, in deeper tones, exclaims: “Bless- ed is he who has found his work.

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680,000 „MEN ACCEPT

WAGE "CUTS."

SAME FOR DIRECTOR AND PORTER.

d. IN THE POUND.

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$38) nom.

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let any of us be-blind-to the fact. that most men and women simply hate the ordinary forms of labour, and flee from manual labour as from the plague as 3000 as op-vices of England and Scotland, China portunity offers. The cant which the from the chairmen and directors politicians, parsons and others are of the four great companies down always preaching, that labour is a blessed-thing, is a lie. God and to the youngest porter at the nature gare men brains for the smallest country station, will re- purpose of casing life and making ceive in future, for a year at least. cur sojourn on earth, not a time of worry and discomfort, but "of peace and happiness." So Mr. Bertrand Russell, quoted in "Dr. Jacks Constructive Citizenship, says It is very rare that a man has any spontaneous impulse to the work which he has to do. He works for the sake of the pay. The best we can hope for is to diminish the amount.

Four hours' boredom a day is a thing which most people could endure without damage."

Deadly Teaching.

--་་

This kind of teaching seems to Let him seek ne other blessedness." from the fact that our foreign rivals me absolutely deadly, even apart Many others have said the same have no objection to eight hours thing. To put it at its lowest, hard

"boredom." I think we should find work keeps us out of mischief. "A man is seldom so harmlessly occur twenty hours of untrammelled leisure a good deal more boring cupied," said Dr. Johnson, 25.

than the four hours of work, even when he is making money.'

if the four hours were spent, as my first quotation suggests, in cursing and swearing, and thinking of the way to the nearest cinema er public-house. No healthy civili- sation enn ever be reared on a foundation of devitalised work.

Those Who Talk Loudest.

Some Christians have felt it to be a difficulty that Christ says so little about the blessing of work. The German Pietists. tried to make out that though the Gospels are silent pn the subject, Jesus must have been really the best carpenter, the best scholar, the best judge, and so on, who ever lived. They meant well, but in truth it is not easy to find the modern ideal of efficiency in the Gospels. "And at least one terrific worker, the great scholar Harnack. has been honest enough to say: There is a great deal of hypocritical twaddle talked about work. Three-fourths of it and more is nothing but stapefying toil, and the man who really works hard shares the poet's aspirations as he looks forward to evening: Bead. hands and feet rejoice: the work ia done.

I have found (he adda) that the people who talk loudest about the pleasure of work are not very laborious themselves." "Civilisations bave hitherto been based on the assumption that people in general will not work unless they are either bribed or threatened. Ambition is motive for the few only, for ambition is either the luxury of the happy or the anodyne of the wretched. In a slave-state the alternative for the majority is Work or be 'whipped.” Under competitive industrialism it is

"Work or statve.”

been nature.

·

per cent.-ad. in the pound less on his salary or wages,

That was the sensational agree meat reached yesterday between the companies and the three railway trade unions at a conference in the Midland Grand Hotel, London.

is accepted because

The cut

all grades of railwaymen are will. battle against declinings revenue

£2,650,000 Saving.

No fewer than 680,000 men will be affected by the reduction in pay, writes the Labour correspondent of will save the companies approxi- the. Daily Express. Their sacrifice mately £2,680,000 in a full twelve months as a partial offset to the fall in receipts, which this year will be nearly £8,000,000 less than last year.

Signatures were set to the agree ment at the botel meeting by the general managers or senior officials of the companies, and the chief officials of the National Union of Railwaymen, the Associated So ciety of Locomotive Engineers and Firernen, and the Railway Clerks Association.

be given by a delegate conference of each union, but this is a matter of form, for the full executives of the unions were present at the negotiations and supported the treaty,

The error seems to be largely in substituting the ideal of happi- ness."

Ratification has most basely conceived as freedora from. discomfort and frivolous mental excitation, for the joy of creativeness, in great things or in small, which is equally natural to man. Dr. Jacks quotes the inscription on a Mohammedan astrolabe, more than a thousand years old, as an example of the spirit of a good craftsman. This astrolabe is the work of Hussein Ali, mechanic and mathematician and servant of the Most High God." This mechanic found his pride and happiness in what he did when he was on duty, not on what he did when he was off duty.

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A similar cut of 2 per cent, 13 to be made in the wages of the railway shopmen the 100,000 peo- Cements (combined)...... $9.20 ple engaged in the construction and repair works of each company but as a compensation the com- panies are to resume full-time working in the shops wherever possible, or where full time would bring about dismissals a five-day "week will be put into operation.

Four-Day Week.

railway shops are working only a At the present time most of the four-day week, so that the shop men, although they give the 2 per seat, back to the companies, get a

better bargain.

But no accept

Dinculties Oreate Interest.. What are the things that make work piensant, and what are the things thar make it disagreeable 1

Putting aside the question of re- muneration, which is outside the work itself, the 5rst requisite is

I have no hesitation in say that the work shall be interesting. ing, declared Mr. J. H. Thomas, This may seem an impossible re.P., political secretary to the quirement, but I do not think it is National Union of Railwaymen, at so. Whenever we put all our energies the close of the conference, that, into our work, it becomes interest difficult and delicate as have been ing. When I was a young man, the previous negotiations, I look on Headmaster of Eton commissioned this settlement as the best ever the upper forms of the school. me to write a Latin Grammar for made.

"It is historic, and must play There are few who would say that a great part in the future rela the aiceties of Latin syntax-the tionships of Capital and Labour. forms of the conditional sentence The and the rules of oratio aliqua their difficulties before a body of railway companies placed

are an interesting subject; but 1 trade unions, who were faced from became quite keen about them be the first day of the negotiations fore I had finished. Whenever with the knowledge that they would there are difficulties to be solved have to recommend their men to interest is easily awakened.

wage reduction. "The trade unions showed they were not unmindful of their responsibilities. The whole of the standard conditions of the rail- waymen, which have taken years to obtain, remain intact. What is more important, hundreds of thou- sands of railwaymen, who are to- day working four days a week-- and some less have the consolation of knowing that every grade in the railway service has made a contri- bution towards the common agree-

"Human Side." That is the great human side of this settlement. It cannot be Last and most important is love over-emphasised Above all, the Dr. goodwill Within the family trade unions and the railway come there is an immense amount of un-panies recognise their mutual paid labour, sweetened by affection. responsibilities. That is a triumph In professions which evoke and de- for British common sense" mand loyalty, such as the Army Mr. John Bromley, M.P., secre- and the Church, men shrink from tary to the Locomotive Engineers no sacrifice and keep no accounts and Firemen, said that the new

Long Hours And Small Rewards.

And yet this is not and never bas true estimate of human At all times and in all places there have been men and women who have worked neither for fear nor favour, but because they love either their work or their fellow men or their God. In every society there is a large number of citizens who preserve çivilisation From the corruption which cor doubt there must be also the con- rodes every institution, the mem-viction that the work is worth bers of which work unwillingly, for doing. Nobody ought to be set to fear of punishment or hope of re- the making of useless luxuries, in ward. There are traditions of dis which the toil of weeks may be interested service in some profes constamed in an hour; such tasks are sions. Soldiers in war time under: degrading, however well they may go every kind of hardship and be paid. incur the greatest risks for a bare pittance. It was a commonplace ten Third comes the delight of creat years ago to, say that if the spiriting something which we believe to of the trenches could be imported be beautiful, or know to be usiul into civil life, our social problems the joy of good craftsmanship, would easily be solved.

which I am afraid is threatened by all-pervading machinery and mass production,

There are other professions in which there is a high standard of professional honour. We cannot imagine public school masters strik ing in the middle of a term, or doctors during 13 epidemic. Scholars and men of science would Bever consent to an eight-hour day: they work for much more than eight hours, for rewards which are sometimes too small to be calculat-

Where There Is Love,

ment.

ed. Perhaps, like Hammack, they of giving and taking. Where there agreement was a good one" hay- are glad when the day's work is is no love and loyalty between em- ing regard to all the circumstances. over; but for all that their work players and employed, but only The executive of the Locomotive

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is really their play, and their play what Carlyle calls the cash nexus, Engineers and Firemen have gone his newly established meat canning mere recreation, grudgingly accept there is sure to be endless friction. rather further than the agreement. factory at Tova in Viti Levu Bay ed for the sake of health. Life Labour distasteful, not only They have decided that, when on is getting into its stride, and the would be intolerable to them if when it is inadequately paid, but union business receiving pay from canned goods, have entered into The Food of Life they were forbidden work, and to when the workman thinks that his the union, they will hand back 2 local consumption throughout the work harder than any wage earner work is being wasted; when it is per cent. of that pay rather than so far mechanised that it is not be better off than their mates who. Work For The Love Of It, work for an intelligent man; and, are on the footplate. The officials Besides this there are very many above all, when the mind is poison of the union have made a cut in

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Points In Agreement,

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I am not claiming superiority for If I am right, the social problema the class to which I happen to be- is more psychological than political Points in the agreement between long) who habitually work as if they or economic. Legitimate discontent the companies and the loved it, without attempting to with the conditions of labour ought are:- reckon whether they are taking out to be remedied, even at the cost Deductions are to start from The railway companies and the of the common stock B

of diminished production. But the August 13th, 1929, and the agree- three unions who signed the agree equivalent for what they put in. preachers of class enmity are the ment which is to remain in force ment are to seek the assent of We find such men and women in worst enemies of society, and the for a year, will afterwards be ter other unions to similar dedactions every rank, in every trade and busi preachers of love and loyalty and minable on three months notice being made in the pay of their members. This covers the members ness. They are the salt which keeps goodwill are its best friends. The from either side. society from putrefaction; they are duty of the Church towards indus- All other proposals for wages re- of craft unions employed in the also those who find happiness in trialism is indirect, but none the ductions or for an alteration in railway' shops. their work.

Jess important. Its message may working conditions and hours are The superannuation schema is If this is, truc, what are we to be summed up in the words, “The to remain in abeyance.

not affected by the agreement. --- say to such tirades as the following, Kingdom of God is not eating and Members of the staff of the Rail- When the agreement is terminat- which I quote from 'a socialist news drinking, but righteousness and way Clearing House will come ed the existing machinery for set- paper (1 will not name the peace and joy in the Holy Ghost." within the scope of the agreement, tling any proposals for altering A. B. MOULDER & CO writers he is a man who ought to Accept this, and most of our dif- and also the stufia-of-joint repayor conditions will be brought have known much better.) "Do not ficulties will soon adjust themselves (Continued at foot of neat column)into-operation.

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