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SUMMARY OF RESULTS.

The International Labour Con- farance, which has been sitting|

THURSDAY.

MUSIC FINDS IN OLD CUPBOARD.

OUR GREATEST COMPOSER ALMOST UNKNOWN. -

AUGUST

1920.

WHERE CA' CANNY HITS HOME.

WHO SUFFERS MOST:

greased output now would only strengthen the private interests of employers and add to the gains

Mr. J. R. Clynes, M.P., writes Some important musical dis-in a Home paper as follows: at Gonda to deal with the work-[covarias, the result of years of

Among many other induances, ing conditions of seamen, has patient research, are about to be two things have made the call now reached the end of its published by the Clarendon Press, for increased production un-] labours. The most difficult and under the gis of the Carnegie popular amongst large masses of contentions question which came Trust.

wage-earners. before it was that of working Their publication is likely to hears in ships. In spite of most revolutionise commonly accepted finding workers thrown out of

One is their past experience in strenuous efforts of the officers of judgments of English composers. ab because by hard work they the Conference to bring about a Dr. Terry, of Westminster

chairman of the bad filled the markets with goods; general agreement on a Draft | Cathedral, is Conference for the institution of editorist committee of experts and the other is suspicion that the eight hour day and 48 hour which is preparing the MSS. for week in ships, the Conference in publication. Much of the music the end failed to show the two-was discovered by Dr. Terry him

of the capitalist class. thirds majority required by the self,

Much can be said on both of terms of the Treaty of Peace in "It is a common mistake to support of the proposal. The assume that only the best Eng-these points, but the fact which roting on the Draft Convention "lish music has come down to us emerges with greater strength showed 18 delegates for and 25 through the ages. Dr. Terry day by day is the fact that until of there is an enormous increase in against Two-thirds of the total said. to a represɔntative rote would have been 4523. It the Daily

The the volume of commodities, there Chrusicle. was therefore by the narrowest truth is exactly opposite. Purcell, will not be that decrease in prica possible margin that the hopes of for instance, is generally alone will give the workers a real the seamen were falsified.

quoted as the greatest English advance in wages. It does not follow, however, composer, but I believe William that nothing has been gained by Byrd, whose MSS, are to be publi-workers to the ventilation of the subject of shed for the first time under the "gainst hours of work at sea and in port Carnegie schame, to be greate: safeguards against by a Conference composed of de-The next generation will probably output being of greater benefit legates from the Governments, regard him with the reperation to employers than anyone else, but even if these safeguards shipowners, and seafaring men of given to Shakespeare.

secure

1

I would be proper for the safeguards unemployment and additional

20 or more countries. On the "la my opinion. Byrd is as could not be obtained, greater contrary, it is a notable achieve-great in music as is Shakespeare output would still be desirable because it would confer greater ment that so great a majority in in literature.

benefit upon the wage-earning classes than on any other.

THE PROFITEER'S PARADISE.

an assembly so constituted should Byrd wrote three masses, a have affirmed the principle of the large number of motets, and much eight hour day, and, further, from secular vocal and instrumental the British point of view, it is a music, and in the cathedral we Scarcity does not diminish fact worth remembering that the have given all his masses and his profits; it does no harm to British Government and ship entire "Graduatia," and Can-employers or to traders, Scarcity, owners are virtually bound by the tiones Sacrae.

indeed, is usually the influence

maintains The publication of his com- which declarations of their representa-

profis tives at the Conference to the plate works in core will now a good level of even increases institution of a 48 hour week for enable musicians all over the them.

at

traders of manufac-

all workers in port, a 48 hour world to judge of the quality of High prices are the companions week for engineroom workers in his genias.

of scarcity. Scarcity is the reali large foreign-going vassels while Dr Terry went on to explain friend of the profiteer, and few. at sea, and a 56 hour week for the difficulties which confronted if any. derk hands at sea.

his colleagues and himself in turers have suffered in their Many aspects of the seaman's preparing these old MSS. for profits because of diminished life have come under examina-publication.

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Production may go down, but from the question of working

TOGETHER

prices do not follow production hours it has discussed the pro- "They are written in a notation downward. As production goes: blems of unemployment among now obsolete, and therefore (save down, prices go up. This general seamen, terms of employment in late Tudor work) quite law is not upset by mention of the minimum age for young unintelligible to the musician one or two commodities produced he said. Thein abundance and yet remaining fishermen the conditions of work only treatises of this notation dear. of bargees and other workers or are in Latin and in German. One commodity cannot over- inland waterways, and the protec which precludes the musician take the influence which deter tion of seamen against venereal from acquiring its technique namines the general condition of diseases. The results, so far as less he is acquainted with these prices, and that general condition they have been reported from languages. But one of the most can be turned in the right direc- Genoa, may be summarised serious handicaps is the missing tion only when the flow of com- part-books from important MSS.modities is so abundant as to Sometimes one short composition carry the influence of prizes in

TO 'be pieced DES

together the right direction. in seve & part-books

REACHING THE LIMIT. from libraries.

Something may be said in de- Some of the music has been fence of each one of the actions.

most unlikely or factors which help to reduce discovered places. Eleven sets of Elizabethan output. The demand for reason- part-books were recently found able hours of labour is a just one. stowed away in an old cupboard. but suddenly to push that demand

follows:

JUVENILE LABOUR

ไท

A Convention was adopted pro- viding that children under 14 shall no: be employed OF work

vessels of any kind.

School ships or training ships are excluded, provided that that they are supervised by pablic authorities. It is agreed that this Convention shall be brought into operation before July 1, 1922.

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"Works about to be published below a level which produces a include those of Taverner, Tye, scarcity of things we need can William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, result in greater working-class A Convention was adopted pro-and others less kuown.

Robert Whyte, Peter Phillips, privation than beneft:

Comfort and proper pace during viding that the business of finding

"The point I should like to hours of employment are as much employment for seafarers shall

empbasise," Dr. Terry added, "is the right of the manual worker as not be carried on by any person that this music is not merely of others, but to evade one's duty, agency, or commercial enterprise antiquarian, which should be or deliberately shirk work which for monetary gain, subject to dismissed as something curious should be done, or to go slow be penalty of fine or imprisonment.but of little value. It is all live' cause of some (This is directed against the music of a very high quality.-protest against something, is the grievance, or R3 & Crimp.")

both technically and artisticwrong way to advance claims The Convention further really."

which in themselves may be quires each nation to ensure an To illustrate this point Dr.right. efficient public system of employ- Terry played one of Taverner's ment offices without charge at its Todor compositions a very and not the individual employers, It is the masses of consUMOTS, port. The Bama employment charming and distinguished piece who suffer from & depleted facilities are to be available for the seafarers of all countries

market, for the goods which are The MSS. will be pablished in being made are to meet public wbare conditions of emplymen: two forms-one a quarto edition. convenience and need, and not are generally the same.

the other a popular edition at merely to pass through the eur The International Labour

cheap price. giving selections ployers' hands. Office is to secure the co-ordina suitable for choirs and choral tion of the different pational societies and competition festi. systems of public employment vala. offices for seafarers.

Another Convention provides

for the insurance of crews against

of work.

The pressing needs of con. somere now are house-hold goods, clothing, houses, and especially for the material and machinery out of which all these things are

unemployment resulting from employed in inland navigation, made. shipwreck, this being secured with allowance for such special

To limit supplies for any cause

under a case in every insurance conditions as may be necessary other than the just and reasonable policy relating to a ship. At least to meet the geographical and in-needs of producers inflicts a two months' full wages are to be dustrial conditions peculiar to penalty not on employers, but ea covered by the insurance. The inland navigation ia each the masses of workers then- Conference also recommended | country.”

selves.

the establishment for seafarers |

SEAMEN'S CODE.

in each country of a system of The Conference affirmed the insurance against unemployment need of an International Seamen's special consideration, inter alio,

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