HOW WORK MAKES WORK.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1927, Page 4

HOW WORK MAKES WORK.

Let; 11s suppose that we build a fae•v t” turn out 10.000 taxi-cabs each year, and suppose tbht (bo life of sneli cans is te„ years. At the end of the I tirst. ten years our factory will have to mild 10 000 taxi-cab* solely to roptifc t 10 10.000 built ten years previously ■ the following year another 10,000 nuisi be built to replace those built in the serond year of our factory’s life. These figures take no account of taxis for new demands, thov are simply nm] solely to replace the work which has ended its natural liTe. The same proendure operates in every branch of industry, the difference being one of degree only. Consider just one ex- j Imuo example, namely, that of food. I lii-day’.s output of fond does not last | six or ten years, if is scrapped or consumed immediately! and so to-day’s work in the food factory lias to be repeated to-morrow. Our boiler makers to-day are making boilers to replace those made forty years ago, and next year they will make more boilers to replace those made thirty-nine years* ago. V o see, therefore. tIUC our I work to-day is dependent upon the work of the past; and so the work of ! to-morrow will be dependent upon our j work of to-day.”—Mr John D. Troup, .M.T.Meeh.E., in the “Weekly Tele- | graph.” !