CHAOTIC INDUSTRY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 196, 4 September 1937, Page 3

CHAOTIC INDUSTRY

C' iditions in America MR. K. McLEAY'S IMPRESSIONS Industrial conditions in the United States were chaotic, Kotarian K. hlcLeay told the Hastings Eotary CJub yesterday in describiug a trip through America. Iu New York he saw a largo number of employces iu i'ront of a "rag-shop." Two men were patrolliug Ihe street ivith arm-bands bearing tbo words "Strike On" in xed letters. The same sight was later encountcred outside a Vancouver hotel, where all business, as a result, was at a standstill. Such a procedure was quite lawful and was a frequent occurrence. While in New York Mr MeLeay slept on the l'ourteenth lloor of an hotel, and had lunch on the 102nd floor of tho Empire State building, the Lighest structure in the world. In lcss than a minute one was carried up 76 floors by a lift. Tben a change had to be made to another lift, 'which served the xemaining '26 floors. "The Americans, I am sure, would dearly love to have a Coronation,' Mr McLeay concluded, his impression being based largely upon the feelings of -the Americans who travelled ba,clc from1 England* on the same ship witli him. "They enjoyed' the British Coronation as mnch as auybody, but I do not thinlc they will be able to have a coronation tliemselvcs for a long timo yet."