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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1936.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1930.

WORKING TO

MUSIC!

During recent years, imporlanı steps have been taken in Britain. to humanise labour conditions. It has been found not only humane but profitable to see that the workers are not only protected from evil conditions but that they should be made positively happy whilst at work. Many processes in modern industry are of neces- sity monotonous. It is now the custom in many factories to stop the machinery for a short time at stated intervals, apart from meal-times, so that the workers can have a talk and a smoke, or a cup of tea or coffee. As a re- sult of this, in one factory the out-- put increased by 21 per cent, and the average earnings of piece- workers by. 9 per cent. Every- one was happy. The National Institute of Industrial Psychology, which has done much to introduce these methods in British industry, has favourably commented upon the effect of music on certain fac- tory workers. In a fruit-canning factory in Kent a radio-grame- phone, amplified by # loud- speaker, can be heard above the clatter of the machinery. The music is switched on at intervals and the psychological result is obvious and definitely valuable. The girls sing in chorus, there is a bright and cheerful atmosphere and work goes with EL swing. After meals the work-peuple are dance, encouraged to sing and they have beauty shows and com- petitions, concert parties and amateur theatricals. Everything is done to help them to return to

STOP PRIVATE

ARMS PROFITS

by Philip Noel-Baker

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR DERBY,

OUR years ago, even 'three years ago, the Dis- armament Conference was sul debating ambi- tious schemes for the all-round reduction of the armaments of the world,

To-day we are plunged in the most frenzied arms race the world has ever seen,

In my profound conviction, that catastrophic result is due in no small measure to the system of private manufacture by which most armaments are produced.

For that reason the French Government's bold decision 10 abolish this system was a great international event,

It will not only free the Demo- cracy of France from the strangie- hold of the Comité des Forges, 1 has set an example which the peoples of other free countries will desire to follow,"

When M, Blum's Act of Parlin- mont has

fully becni

carried through. he will have proved that a reform, for tong urged on moral grounds, is practically advantage- ous also from the point of view of national defence. By so doing. he cannot fall to strengthen all those forces which are st vallantly striving for International dis- armament, collective security and stable peace.

I say this with conviction, for I am certain that the French Government's new legislation will supply the Anat proof that the private manufacture of arma- ments is both a grave social evil and a grave menace to national defence.

I have long believed that these two propositions were true. It is by reason of my personal experience that I think private manufacture to be a social cvli.

In one capacity or another 1 have attended nearly every Inter- national Conference since the war. I have, seen at first hand the work of nearly every Committee and Commission that has dealt with the Reduction' and Limitation of Arms.

And, I have been persuaded by that experience that those who manufacture Arms for private profit exert continual and powerful pressure in favour of armament

אנזן

Tis week the Govern

ment is considering the Report of the Royal Com mission on the Manufac-. ture of Arins, which was appointed in February last year,

Meanwhile this week the first volume of "The Private Manufacture of Armaments," by Professor Noel-Baker, has been pub- Ished (Gollancz, 185.).

Here are some hard facts from this detailed exposure of the arms racket.

The sales of the Private Arms Firms all over the world cannot be much less than £300 million per year.

British Governments have given mere knighthoods to Directors of Armament Firms than to representatives of all the rest of British industry put together.

British aircraft engines were sold to Germany in April, 1034; and the German Air Force started designing its military machines with the results of IG years of British Government alr research.

In May, 1934, when the Council of the League of Nations was trying to prevent war between Colombia and Peru, a British Arm sold two destroyers to Colombla. The First Lord of the Admiralty gave permission for 100 British ex-officers and ratings to man them.

expansion and against the policies that make for peace.

I am no less convinced that the system of private manufacture is n danger to national defence.

In saying this, I am not only thinking of the export of arma- ments to foreign nations who may some day use them against the ex- porting country in another war, as has, been done in the past; I am thinking even more of the in- 'evitable waste and chaos which reliance on private manufacture involves when war begins.

Before 1014 the British Govern- ment deliberately adopted a policy of relylug on private firms to carry through the expansion of arma- ment production which would be needed if war broke out.

They adhered to this policy uni May, 1915. By that time the fallure

of the system was só apparent that everyone was convinced that un- ·· less an immediate change was made Great Britain would lose the war. This failure was not due to the incompetence or rapacity of the private firms; it was due to the in- herent difficulties of the system they were asked to work.

Their

con-

competitive de- mand for skilled labour, for machine tools, for raw materials, reduced the markets for these requirements to Tuston. and led to waste and inemelency of every kind, Only when these difficultles had been removed by national control was there any hope for adequate àrma- ment expansion:

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Nor does the case end there. In

THE DANGEROUS AGE

But

WE all have a dangerous age.

many people recognise this period of crisis when it appears?) Very few, I think, and for obvious! reasons..

their tasks refreshed and happy NOTES OF THE DAY

By

age

we'

Why, now and again, fre staggered by the spectacle of some great dnancier suddenly absconding? Why does some great public fure, puddenly

DA

Sir Herbert Barker with a world-wide fanve The first. reason is that many

collapse and pes from view? people are unaware that, sooner ori

It is the dangerous age that has later, they will steer out of the tranquil waters

Sometimes such of physical and wrecked then. spiritual equilibrium into the un- conduct is but the logical sequet of charted seas of passion and despair. what has been maturing in secret The second for failure to realise through the years. it is possible for the They enjoy both their work and

is a man to be honourable the approach of this life-crisis

to. their play, and in consequence

ignorance of the danger signals that griınsnal law Interprets that term, output has increased by thirty per An article which appeared in are held aloft by Dome Nature, if be above reproach by society assesses

conduct, and yet to be we can but interpret the flashes.

Intrinsically cent, and both owners' and our issue of October 31, entitled

Wilh men The dangerous age false to the best in him. workers' incomes have increased ortugal's Spies Are Second to

comun with the final realisation that! It is when the dangerous age ar- desired in youth and rives that these secrets of the soul accordingly. A similar system is None," has aroused adverse com with

ment amongst the Portuguese pursued through middle

is are revealed- sudden absconding: being adopted by hundreds or

community in Macao, by whom it | illusory and

code; or destined to remain a gross brouch of the moral thousands of other firms. Re-has been mistakenly interpreted as

unfulfilled. Then it is that the

collapse into alcoholic ignominy, ports received from soup-canning a deliberate attack by us on brave struggler is tempted to bow Tragic? Terrible? Pitiable? works, tobacco factories, motor- Portugal and Its President and down before the forces of defeat and Of course i tall that. But

Lake

inevitable? the cosy path. manufacturing works, and radio | Premier, whose invaluable services

I do not belleve it. For all men that Inevitable moment There is a form of decline into decay manufacturers are all strongly in to their country we freely acknow arrives. Il comes to those whom among the middle-aged that is due favour of it. In many factories ledge. Actually, the article was one the world regards as successes as to purely physiological causes. I am there has been a remarkable de- which has already appeared in a well as to those whom the world not concerned with that aspect of crease in sickness since the sys-London daily newspaper and was looks down upon with pity as life's the problem for the mument. It is included in a series of topical failures. This is because what men with the spiritual Sinister Street we tem was introduced. Thus it can contributions which we regularly call success bears no relation to the all must negotiate that I am here be claimed that in one all-impor- receive from this

of life concerned to that period particular reality. tant branch of national life, in the source. It was republished by us

The only successful man is he who when the mon groahs in his soul and industrial sphere in one of the in the normal course of events. Intellectual heritage.

has enhanced his spiritual

whither? Cul and asks: Why? ond A man may bono? most highly organised industrial We regret, therefore, that its achieve fame, may become the countries in the world, more publication should have

A WORKING PHILOSOPHY caused idol at the world, and yet be aware humane and kindly modes of life our Portuguese readers any an in the depths of his heart that he For the assaults of Fate and the are the rule to-day. Although noyance. Having been written by has failed. Falled by what? By bludgeonings of high-pressure mo- these have incldontally been found London commentator, the article standards of his own which he has ders life there are no material re- profitable and therefore

medles. We must bow before then. attractive, they are due to

accept our lots, learn philosophy.

.But what we can do, if we would navigate this perilous patch, is to examine the only instrument where- by we can safely steer. What In- It is, I think, the soul, or, If you prefer the word, the intellect. Every (Continued on Page 5.)

more 悲

steadily growing sense of fellow-

ship and kindly feeling among men and women of all classes. In

ur was in no sense published as re-stifled and betrayed to galu flecting our own views. Wo trust unworthy end.

that this explanation will serve to

FALSE TO THE BEST

men 'Inevitably

removo such impression, and, at

Such the same time, will be accepted as

an assurance of a continuance of dangerous age more perilous than

this sphere at any rate, progress a spirit of friendship on our part that which confronts the man who strument is 1hni, you may ask? has definitely been made in regard towards Portugal and the Portu has suffered his heart to live and to the kindlier virtues.

guese people In general.....

remain susceptible to ennobling

influences.

time of war there are three essen- tial functions which must be per- formed to ensure the increase of armament supply.

The production of existing plants must be expanded to the maximum possible extent; new factories and plants must be set up; the general hun-armament engineering re- sources of the country must be in- atructed in the technique of arma- ment manufacturo.

The war experience · of Great Britain proved beyond all doubt. that in all these three functions the Government has immense ad- vantage over the private arms,

Woolwich Arsenal expanded more rapidly than Vickers or Arm- strong's. The now national fac tories produced arms more rapidly, or better quality and at lower prices than those of any private firm. The expert staff of Wool- wich

Arsenal did more effective in- struction of the ordinary engineer- ing companies than all the private firms combined.

In other words, Governments" arsenals have a great advantage in securing rapid expansion when war begins.

It follows that the larger the scale of Government production in time of peace, the more rapid and effective will be the increase in armament production when it is required.

Thus, by abolishing pri- vate manufacture, M. Blum's Government has not only struck at the root of a grave social evil, but has rendered a signal service to French national defence. I have said already that the result of its example will spread to other lands. But I do not expect immediate practical results

In Great Britain, for example, 10 is not likely that the present British Government will abollsh private manufacture. Indeed, in the armament programme which 118 carrying through, it is Immensely increasing the share of the orders which is given to private Arms

In evidence befère a Royal Com- mission an official spokesman said not long ago that to abolish private manufacture at the present time was quite "unthinkable"; and in answer to the argument which I advanced ju the House of Commons, the Ministry for "Co- ordination of Defence declared that the Government attached greal Importance to the elasticity of the present system.

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But I believe that the action of M. Blum's Gov- ernment makes it cer- tain that the next administration of Great Britain will carry through this reform immediately it comes to power.

I have little doubt that President Roosevelt is ra-elected, Congress also will follow M, Blum's example, and will abolish private manufacture in the United States.

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the reform will spread, untur,

if the "next war" can be averted, we may hope for an International Treaty which will abolish Private Manufacture

the throughout

world.

And as, in country after country, thla source of international unrest, suspicion and distrust is removed, So our chances of averting the 'next war" by a strong system of collective security and disarma- ment will be improved.

(World copyriglit 1936 by CO-OPERATION.)

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causes of war..

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