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Lord Burnhams's Plea For Settlement.

Lord Burnhams attended “the thirtieth annual conference of the Asocia'ion "of Teachers in Technical Institutions, as the Polytechnic, Regent-street, and spoke about the results which, he hoped would accrue from the long and arduous labours of the | Joint Committee..

It was impossible, he said, for our educational msehinery to work at anything like its full efficiency unless they. allowed the moral and intellectual force, which constitute and make up its values, to have their natural play without always bə- ing surrounded by an atmosphere of strife and discord. He won- dered whether the general public realized that a great part of the monny paid in respect of educa- tign would be a dead loss if there was in the teaching profession, as a whole, a sensa of grievance and ill-treatment which all those: who looked back upon our educa. tional history know to be, on the

tole, justifiably well-founded. He would not say that that Association or any other body of teachers allowed their work to be impoverished because they were constantly involved in disputes with local authorities, or the Board of Education, because they felt they had not been treated { with proper consideration. On the other hand, what must be į the moral effect upon a great

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town, as in the case of South JAPANESE CHAMBERS OF ampton, where for the last two or three months the schools had been closed owing to a trade dia-

pute in industrial matter? It Conference Calls for Reduced

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seemed to him to involve a ter rible waste of local resources. and of national resources also.

At the mass meeting of repres- Supposing the same thing **entatives of the Chambers of going to happen all over the Commerce throughout Japan held iccantry, what was the use of any

at the Tokyo Chamber of Com- of them discussing the problems merce last month Mr. Arai, of education when really they re

Minister for Agriculture and solved themselves into a veiled Commerce, delivered a speech in

form of civil war

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LEADERS WITH NO POWER.

Mr. Clynes on Trade Union Weakness.

Some difficulties in trade unios) leadership were referred to by Mr. J. R. Clynes, M.P. in his presidential address at Birming ham to the biennial congress cf the National Union of General! Workers

"MERE MESSENGERS.” Experienced leaders who WIT? not given proper authority and full confidence were.weakened in) their work, and could never be on equal terms with spokesmen of employers.

which be said that, as a result of A serious weakness in organisa- He orged a permanent and post-bellum reaction, the foreign tion, he said, arose from conflict reliable scale of salaries for trade of Japan was so seriously | in the degrees of leadership with teachers. When the present depressed that the country's in in the unions. standard scale was fixed it was dustries generally were in a re- There were men whose only hoped and intended that at would markably distressed condition. I pathway to influence or notoriety|| be treated as permanent and The high price of commodities | was to attack responsible officisti. || reliable by the local authorities. had very adversely affected the Men who made difficulties for onthe one hand, and the teachers, general trade and industry of the official merely to make room for on the other. They received from country. It was therefore toemselves had done serious mis tbe Board of Education the matter of urgent importance to chief in a number of recent cases, assurance that they would bonour! End means of promoting foreign the scale: and Mr.. Fisher had trade, while at the same time put it down as a watter of public reducing the cost of faith: but he could not pledge modities. the local authorities, by whom

Since the financial depression the grants were made. At the of the year before last, Mr. Aral same time, if education was to went on to say, foreign trade mean anything in national life had co tinued adverse to Japir, Enjoyment of real power would then they must arrive at

SO much so that in 1921, place the Labour leader on a foot- general settlement, accepted by imports exceeded exports by Yening of greater equality to bargain all alike, from which, except for 350,000,000 and in the first five with those who acted in the am the gravest reasons of national months of the current year the ployers' intareat, instead of act emergency, there must be no imports showed, an excess over ing, as sometimes was the case, departure. (Cheers.) All that was exports of Yen 350,000,000. Tbatas mere messengers in conveying allempted by the Joint Comandesirable state of things might proposals from the employers to mittee, with which he was as be an inevitable feature of a time the masses of workmen. sociated, would have gone for of transition, but the steps to be

Puritans in democratic practise sought everywhere there was taken to meet such a trend of would call bis argument unde me to be that spirit shown in the affairs would bare a grave beating cratic. It was not; it was busi- administration of the schools

upon the fature of economic ness. that had prevailed at South circles in the country, and there- ampton.

fore called for the most serious attention:

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But even if in theory it were andemocratic, it would in practice Technical education was slowly

batter serve the interests of gaining its right place in the

The Minister emphasized the workmen than they were served assessment of national value. It importance of thrift and diligence by methods which compelled ten was only thirty years old. and in on the part of the people, the to drift bither and thither, suffer. some sense it was an eductional necessity of improvements of ing privations and exhibiting romance. It did not come in con- various kinds in business and in-divisions of view, because of the sequence of the urgent and

dustrial methods, and of increased exertions of local officers clamant demand of the great efficiency in technical arts and group leaders, who seldom knew industries themselves, and com-knowledge. He commented on the whols case and never met the paratively little support had been the fact that whereas prices of employers at all.- given to it either by employers commodities in foreign countries | TRUST THE OFFICIALS. or employed. Employers were showed a downward tendency. Within the trade noions them- now showing livelier sympathy in Japan prices were regrettably eyes there was increasing need with technical training. It was very high, the margins between for reform. Their administration exactly the same with trade holesale and

would certainly not be improved retail prices aolone. But with the advance of being altogether too great. He by undermining the authority of scientific discovery mere manual thought special steps should be leaders who were denied the right dexterity was clearly, shown not takes to check the habitual waste to lead. to be good enough in industrial of goods, as it undoubtedly helped work, Gradually is bad come to to keep prices at their present the mind of the nation that if we high level. Mr. Arai concluded, couraged to regard them as sh did not equip our working people by saying that he hoped the Ways being ready to advise com- in such a way as to enable them united Chambers of Commerce promise or concession at iba to compete on equal terms with would take active measures to expense of workmen's interests. those who had been carefully effect

* reduction of prices brought up to the highest point generally and at the same time

of industrial efficiency, things devise means to place the trade might go badly with us. The and io ustry of the country on a necessity for technical education Mounder footing. was admitted, but the masters still mistrusted those

Leaders bad been assailed from

two sides. Workmen were en

while critics of another class reviled them av persons wh throve upon discontent which they deliberately provoked.

Those two lines of attack bad Various resolutions and rep-function of leaders, and bad gradually tended to reduce the

who came out of the schools, befresentations were adopted at caused men to not more like s cause while they might have yesterday's meeting. The Osaka mob than a disciplined army.) {

Arshi gives the following outline of these ·

with results ruinous to them- theoretical knowledge they lacked altogathër practical science.

selves. Resolutions calling for the There was no doubt they put their

If leaders at the beginning of finger on the weak spot, and what abolition or amendment of the some recent disputes had had was now wanted was that we must Business Tax: measures to ensure full power so negotiate, bargais, keep our technical schools closely a reduction of prices of com- and definitely to settle terms, with in tonch and relation with our modities

and the develop the employers, unfold physical industrial works, and that thement of industry general suffering could have been avoided.

entrants should be prepared for observance of national saving

the satisfactory discharge of their day"; curtailment of Govern

doty. To his mind, that would ment expenditure, etc. It was

gradually dissipate any distrost also resolved to wire to the centres asking them to ma that now remained among the Chambers of Commerce" of New efforts to prevent the Ford T ployers as the vital importance York, Chicago, San Francisco, St. Tarif Bill from being passed by of technical education,

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