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Mochinos now run the world. They are the Mastor as well as

The Servant of Man.

One electrical firm has in ten years produced the man-power of . 160 milliona.

A mechanical digger does the toork of 15,000 natios.

a modern Jour One man t init can do by machinery as much as 8,000 hand millers.

A mechanical stoker made by. eight men in eight days displaces ferty xtokers.

Machines can make calenta- tions an intricate that mathe maticians are baffled. They wrap chocolates, arrange cigars, prudie fruit and vegetables, faster than fingers can work and minds can They delect flats that urnap. escape the human eye. The Machine has brought to the world abundance and cheap-

But the prico

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OR three mechanical years I have been the slave of the anme relent- less machine. I see this machine every morning. It walts without pity. It is my master-my enemy-my e.

To other eyes, perhaps, it is increly an elaborate arrange- ment of wheels, cogs and levers. But I know that when the hooter blows the electric motors will whine, and this machine will come to life.

Then for eight and three-quarter hours I have to Bght against it, never renzing and callim; upon every resource of my strength. But it is an unequal contest.

To beat the machine and to "keep on top of the job" givos me a grim satisfaction.

But if I fall to keep up with. I have to exert all my self- control to suppress the hysteri- cal revolt that surges up within me like a spiritual storm.

At one end of the machine enters an endless stream of

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1936.

CAUGHT in the

MACHINE

"To bo a slave to the Machine, seems to be my life's purpose and destiny"

(A Secur from Chaplin's “Modern Times," which is none being shown in nearly every town in Britain, and carries the same grim trening,

reboot packing cases. They emerge at the other end folded, glued and sealed. They are car- rted in an uncensing, madden- ing procession on a mechanical. conveyor. It is from this that I have to if them and pile them neatly 071 wagons brought alongside.

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The contents of these inter- inlanble cases vary, and I must "watch them to see that I do not inix the loads. But for this necessity to keep atert, I would mental soon relapse into stupor and become a heartless and brainless automaton. The only menas of expression for my Ilving sout would be in the rhythmical swing of my body as I stoop to lift each ease.

There is an emergency algnal for me to switch on If anything goes wrong or I have to crave n respite. It lights' red lamp visible to the macline, opera- lors and to the foreman, who strides menacingly towards me to see what has happened. this way the machine acclaims its triumph and humiliates me.

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And in the evening, when the hooter shrieks again, I have to pause_to_free_myself_from_a nightmare daze. I have to re- cover my sense of balance that I may walk steadily.

As I drift from the factory buliding I feel myself coming to. life again in the freedom and

fresh air. From this merciful release until I can stay awake no longer is the only time I am really alive with a human iden- tty.

Often my mind begins to wander until my attention 18 recalled by some littie irregu- larity. Then I lose my train of thought.

I begin to think about all the prople who go into shops where they see arrayed before them a vast selection of minas-produced goods in attractive wrappers.

How many of them are aware of the mechanical, human toil and oppression of the human spirit which make it possible lor all these things to be brought to them at such low prices? Do they hear the din, and turmoil, feel the strain of the factorles, see the turning wheels, the Ured, pallid faces?

At other Umes, I think of my- self as a servant of the public, tabouring so that people may have the things they need. The load I put on each wagon is sent to all parts of the country for distribution to the shops. I am one of a million Insignificant cogs in the ever-turning wheels of production and consumption. My favourite day-dreams are those which take me to places I

-To-day's Thought--- Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

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nave visited during holidays or week-ends-places where there are great trees and grass and liquid sunshine, where life can be peaceful and leisurely all day.

Or perhaps my tormented thoughts wander to some little job I am doing in the house for my wife; to the Alm we saw on Saturday, or the football match --when suddenly I notice that there is a delay in bringing up an empty wagon.

I wait impatiently, anxiously. for each precious second the ad- machine is gaining an vantage over me.

In the same department are two other machines of this kind. During my three years I have seen many men come to work on them, and go-beaten. Sometimes they ar given notice; sometimes they leave voluntarily, suddenly.

At one time a machine was specially speeded up, and it was then necessary for two workers to take off the cases. At the end of a hard month, their nerves strained to breaking point, one of these exasperated men made a casual, ill-tempered remark to the other. The swollen tor- rent or revolt broke loose. The

two men had to be dragged apart, but not before they had both drawn blood.

How the red light shone, in triumph! Those two men had been friends. The machine had tirned them against each other and thus defeated them both.

For many health has broken down. Their strength falled them, During the first six months, I lost over a stone in weight. I have never recovered It..

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People ask why I still keep on; why 1 do not find another job or do some other sort of work.

I have a wife to keep, De- pendable jobs are not so easy to get, and somebody must do this one. I have proved that I can do it by the evidence of three feless years.

True. I have for hort periods been transferred to other opera- tions, too soon to be recalled to I battle with my old enemy. have become fatalistic about it.

To be a slave to this machine seems to be my life's purpose and destiny. It gives me some- thing to fight against. It makes the battle of life a real fight against a visible, yet unconquer. able enemy of steel.

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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1 There 18 report when it

cracks.

6 You'll easily get this, it's 50

seasonable!

Which should make it clear. 11 Like chaff and laugh.

12 There's

Caledonian

about this course,

touch

13 The corporal's have no feline

associations,

14 In two isn't certain.

17 Often grimy, but may help you

on the water.

20 "Too late, too late! Ye can- not-now." (Tennyson's "Guin- evere.")

22 The power that wins. 23 A little lock.

24 I wish this variety of coroner would limit himself to talking.

20 Certain to give you twelve

months

27 Social occasion that would show the attendance if the time were not omitted.

20 Blotch.

31 There's a lot in such material, 31 To be more than keen.

35 A Jugoslav.

30 Part with it, and it will fly,

37 What the relentless never feel

about a code.

38 No old hand in Tyrone.

39 Found in any resort.

2 Composer.

DOWN

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3 Used to produce one copy: now

produces millions.

4 To make a song about a vehicle

frightening.

5 Sort of lid, but if you take olf its head, there's still a hut left. Could it ever have been said to indicate one's station on the Tollway?

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7 Cruel confusion.

0 To do it to a bout requires

neither ribbons or lace.

10 In the waste-pipe.

no trap.)

(No, this is

15 Bury him in the meanwhlic? 10 Any toad (anagram).

18 Advice to dog and bird.

19 Graceful..

20 Finished.

21 Issues a report

for which the laziest pupil doesn't care one shot.

25 Migrate (anagram).

20 Gain like a band of singers.

28 Wine given on leaving perhaps.

20 Most of this wood has the

quality of the herring,

30 Back prefix.

31 Goddess ilke a sequence.

32 Evokes no sign of insubordina-

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