CHILD ENDOWMENT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19163, 21 November 1927, Page 9

CHILD ENDOWMENT.

EVIDENCE BEFORE COMMISSION (by cable—pbess association—copyright.) (austkalian and n.z. cable association.) SYDNEY, November 19. William Myhill, -secretary of the Metal Trades Employers' Association, giving evidence before the Child Endowment Commission, declared that there would be no necessity for the introduction of the system if the workers would agree to the adoption of piecework, or payment by results, to which the union leaders claimed they were opposed. Payments by results would increase the standard of living of the workers and decrease the general cost of living by increasing production. From his experience in seven countries he had no hesitation in saying that once the workers tested the fruits of payment by results they would never give it up. He said that it would be difficult to conceive of a man not earning more than the basic wage on piecework. Witness contended that the emplovees were apt to look to the Government for too much. There were many opportunities in industry for the worker to better his position, but it he knew that the Government would look after his dependents if he were not earning sufficient there was a tendency for ambition to be stifled.