COMPETITION AND INDUSTRY.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1921, Page 4

COMPETITION A ND INDUSTRY.

THE HEN EE ITS OF EFFICIENCY. illy Sir William Senger, ILL., M l’., the well-known South Wales Sliipiiu nor). Efficiency determines the progressed mankind. The general tendency ill lan mdustri.il world to-day is to olimitia..e competition altogether, so much so that for some time past we have had to lace icpeated crises in industry and commerce which threaten to undermine the progress and well-being <>l tlie* whole ol society.

One of the most striking blunders in Trade I’ninn policy is the attempt to lot in a protective ring round the workci so that he may lit* able to escaiie the world’s competition. The ultimate (•fleet of this near-sighted policy is only too apparent a shortage of all production in every branch ol industrial output. Inversely, in spite of Hie fact that the worker gets a higher wage and \vt>i‘ks fewor hours, thor»* is \vi«lospro:ul ilissiHVriion ami dis<*onli»nl. :md <lu* is. really, not 11 hit better off: in Ltd, Inis the loser in the end.

So far there has been no check to these incessant demands lot highci wages. Competition lu ,s been placed upon one side and material interests have been advanced in I>»*rl<*(’t safety. It will he clearly acknowledged, however, that this present policy on the pin’of the unions is having a disastrous and stagnating cH’ect upon industry, as well its doing dangerous harm to the working capacity ol el:c

: '"V’or many years I he general demand anion,,st the more advanced reformers fins heel! for more op port unity *d seli--1 expression and individual development of the workman. By deliberately encouraging the members to "ea’ canny, ’ nil individual initiative is being bullied out of the worker. No true development or progress can come without energy and exertion. Consequently a system of working which torbids the worker the fullest use of Ins energies is reaping its own reward—industrial chaos. ~ , , F.fficiencv operates m all phases ol human life. To eliminate eoiii|>etilion from industry is wilfully to encourage industrial stagnation, with its toll ol unemployment. The nation wants more of the healthy competition applied to industry which we, put into out.

games and sports. This is the only way to deal effectively with the incomplexity of our many social problems. IVLINf) “( A’ CANNY” POLICY.

A man or woman wlio thinks it is possible to progress in lilo without com- 1 petition, is either a fool »r vise completely obsessed by the utopian itlu- , sion. One bad just as well try and t build a castle upon sand. _ ! The repeated agitation for liitfh j wages which are out of all proportion! to the work done has brought its own 1 inability to compete in the open market, j with other world nations. Oar tiade Union leaders seem to lorgcl tla 4 f,nimercial status ol the country is being driven, by repeated strikes, t> t‘ position of a see*» ml class power, li we have foolishly adopted tl* ' blind peliry of '‘en’ canny” the world eerainly *e> not done so.’ Daily we read of lost markets oversells.

('[iimti* ti-ctiM* mid cnmtniui logic of evetv dnv tiffttirs intist show the lenders thin' veiled t brents of anarchy end soeitil uphettvtil will never give work to the hit-ge nund-cr cf unemployed. It t :i molt I roils fnlhic.v olid is 1 ik.- n cancer curing the heart out of the cmimry. Cnmpctiliuu i“ cmincntlv heidtht. Wren the whole of the wickers ol lb" country put the some nmoiint ol energy mid in it iot i\c into the doy’s noth us they do into sport, it w ill mil bo long I,oture we ore on the up-grodo oguiii. On the other hood. (h-hheio;--ly to cite;iur;rec men oml women to idleness is o mttiuiuil disnstc;. f-uilntc cont.-s Ufotti im-ompcleitcy, not limit cnmp.tition. Wlml liritoiit did in ti e post she coil do ill the totinv. if we work htn-der, oml. in the words of the Prince of Woles, '-pull together.”

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