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over meant smaller capital outlay, JAPANESE WIRELESS. and it had the great advantage of establishing a closer identity interests between the manufac tirer and the customer."

LARGE NEW STATION PLANNED.

It had been discovered that On n recent week-end, som these methods did not prevent the

The largest wireless station in There the Far East will shortly be con- two hundred works directors, payment of high wages, managers, and overlookers met at, was no limit to a man's output instructed by the Nippon Wireless Balliol College, Oxford; to discuss America, and labour was rewarded Company in the outskirts of Yok- the position of British industry according to results, Contrary to kaichi City, Mie Prefecture.. Mr. and to consider how improvement the popular belief, high wagas di Kakichi Uchida, president of the not mean a high level of prices, company, who is now in Osaka and both employer and employed after visiting Yokkaichi for the had an incentive to greater effort inspection of the site, suid to the through this promise of un equi- Mainichi. table share of the prosperity attending their industry.

could be elected. Frankness was the keynote of this conference, The very atmosphere inspired ou- spokenness. Directors and other officials openly confessed the shortcomings and invited criticism and co-operation, says the Man chester Gardian..

HUUCONN.

"The Nippon Wireless Company was established on October 20 Inst

your.

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"I believe these stations will be the largest in Asia. Japanese

more stations will be constructed infer in order to bring Japan into loser touch with British India. Australia,and the United States,

in

"Of these plants, that for India will be built in Kansai while the present wireless station laranomachi, Iwaki, will be en Jarged to meet the Japan-America service."

Ottier vital influences were the

The company is now going absence of any stratification of to build a receiving station at the the classes all men were equal base of Mt. Taresaka-yaron near Mr. Walter Layton, editor of in that they worked in a common Yokkaichi City and a broadenst- the Economist, opening the disens cause and for & common rewarding station in Karlyn near Nagoyn slun, said that, on the whole we free exenange of ideas between all City, at a cost of Y3,000,000 ani were inclined to exaggerate ours, whether in conipetition with Y4,000,000 respectively. difficulties. The industrial situas one chother or not, scientific ground for both stations has tion was serious, but not hopeless attention to waste elimination, already been purchased. Relatively, we were producing a systematic research right down to mpeh as, we did in 1913, but, as the minst soumingly trivial, detail our population had increased, this and particular regard for workig was not satisfactory. The valur, conditions.

made apparatus will be used as of world trade had declined, and fallhough we were getting a fair

Mr. Will Sherwood, of the far as possible in order to pro- note the home industry. These share of what was going our National Union of Workers, ghva productivity had to be increased an interesting turn to the discus-depots will be used mostly for five were to absorb our increasersion. Ile said that trade union broadensting and receiving wire- population. We were nut in leaders were favouring paymentless to and from Europe. Several, position to replace our Inst foreign by resulta in ever-increasing num markets by the expansion of our bers. Fear of unemployment had home tinde. That night help, but in the past embittered labour Britain's past prosperity, had begr against piece payments. Worketa huilt on her overseas trade, and had a suspicion that such a sys- that was still the only road totem would also involve cut rates, He urged employers to go out of their way to educate the men in There were large parts of the this direction. He knew of some world undeveloped. The densely intustries where men earning popolatati continent of Asia was "114;d. an hour worked side by moving towards Western stunside with men earning 69. 1, an dards of economic activity and hour. Full labour co-operation presented a new market of vig was not possible as long as sch potentialities. The world was

a position continued Even the gradually recovering from war labourer had his value and indus- shock. If we were to hold our trial stability would be the more.

Serious quickly secured when a service of unskilled as well as attempt was made to measure the

skilled workers and his remunera- Mr Austin examined the enusestion fairly reflected his value. Mi Amrica'a prosperity and sught to show how British indus Mr. Sherwood said that work tay might inefit by applying was dit such a premium nowadaya their methods. He did not believe that unions quarrelled among |that the large influx of gold; a themkelves to gain the slightest vaat hoe market, general tariffs | advantage. I took five separate and frouense natural resources | craftsmen, for instance; to make a Wore along responsible for their ship's porthole, thoura any one, of surenen. For example, Mr. Henry | them could casily alo, the completă Food Bud this that the Ford, ich. Twenty-two million pounds Grundfields were further away from had been lost in wages in 1925 Mine works then the Ruhr is front } from disputes over sich trivial #d, notwithstando? | mallego, as thean alemã Let the serien dis ndiep, they turn ganggara manage! Employers, per en than ang in tlf with their advantages of edure

experiences

fotion-and influence," should study eden od alan envike his pee poolieres and enlighten the Little Mix j? their laboow worker. .

won't!

ow we Est follow as bost we cold the American example o high wages, high output, and the utmil labour economy,

pid pencully up to the British | follow,

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Co-operation

The conclusions of the confer what then, más the secret ofen ware' summed up by Mr. Job the le, an se vadable strengs? Tie fee, "Controller Central Telegrari: har find the policy of premuting Office, who said that whereas we araf y merit. I was implicitly could learn much from America's, anilerstood that a man who did example, especially in methods of hot make weed had to go, and more

management and organisation, important still, that ability meant promption There was, scope for authoritative records showed that The lowest-placed werker to climb they had not solved all the pro- to the top: But even a director blems affecting the reduction of did net hold his position on leas production costs, in the United States: What we had been taught for Bite unless he was competent to the present, however, was and successful.

the desirability of a close valus. Another factor was

striction of services, of the use of adherened to the principle that methods of training, and of en- | sales could be increased by, re-

couragement to make. those ser- ducing prices and yet maintaining vices additionally productive. quality. He instanced the We could also well afford to thorough methods of a row Ameri: emulate their example in banish- can firm setting out to capture the ing prejudice on both sides, to the any market, which was the advartage of industry throughout monopoly of three huge concerns, They studied the market for two years, even sending investigators

The Dowager Duchess of among the black "mammies" "and

Argyll, formerly privates secretary children of the South. When it was found that the niggers conlt to Queen Victoria, who died in nat pronounce the name of the December last, aged 78 years left product it was quickly changed.£15,696. Subject to several other Ofenurse the new soun won! bequests she left the residue of was cheaper and richer fn. davon her property to the Argyllshire than any other. And the market District Nursing Association, and gained; they still cut the price the trustees of Iona Cathedral to- precipitately, with amazing rewards the cost of a custodian and | sulta.........Low prives and rapid turn-for the upkeep.

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