Why Germany Beat Sheffield

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 September 1916, Page 3

Why Germany Beat Sheffield

p J ♦ , Not apparently content with the ex ; J planalion which our .Sheffield corre,spoil . dent gave him in our last issue a.s t< [ the reasons why German firms conk turn out at a shilling a pair scissor; ! that could not be produced in Sheffielt under half-a-crown, Captain De Yen Ueauclerk has written us further oi: the matter. Ho says that the attitude taken by the trade unionists in thif matter of machinery means cutting their own throats. He points out that our national industries cannot continue to hold their own in interational competition if Capital and Labour do not come to some working arrangement and recognize their joint responsibility for the prosperity of tho people. We entirely Hgreo, itntl wo ontort:iin some hope that aft tor the war a different spirit will prevail lrom that shown belore it began. One thing is certain, we shall, get no improvement until both masters and men realize that the common enemy renders it necessary for them to come together for mutual proteetion. The first thing i* to enlighten the lien as to the imminence and' reality of the commercial peril that the war revealed.—London Times.