AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cablo Association.] U.S.A. INDUSTRY W NEW YORK, April 5 After two days inspecting industries at Buffalo, the Australian Industrial Mission roached Rochester, t programme apparently satisfying the employees represented, who participated in the inspection. The Commission watched the mass production in the moulding shop of the American Radiator Coy. at the rate of 2-50 boxes daily, which is a remarkable performance, in view of the size of the eastings. The moulders, who were doing the work were engaged only a few months previously as labourers, there being practically no apprenticeship to the skilled trades. The management said that there was a difficulty in obtaining apprentices, halftrained hoys leaving after two years’ service, on obtaining employment as machinists, and earning six or seven pounds weekly.

The Mission listened to the playing of an organ, costing twenty thousand * pounds, which is installed in the magnificent offices of Learning and Co., a distributing agency, where fifteen hundred employees, mostly typists, worked while the organ was playing. The manager declared that the music had a soothing effect during office hours. < Mr Grandilier was interviewed by the Buffalo Courier and Express. He said that America would certainly tench Australia something. The magnitude and the fine organisation in the American manufacturing industries were amongst the Americans’ most impressive sights. Air Guy was also interviewed. He said that American industrial success was due to the remarkable layout of the plants and to mass production, coupled with the piecework bonus, which made the employer and the employee happy, resulting in greater production. America, he said, has developed efficiency into a scientific idea.

RIOTOUS ELECTION NEW YORK, April 3. ATr Thompson has been elected Alayor of Chicago hy a plurality of 50.000 votes. The election took place amid unprecedented rioting, in which machine guns and bombs were used freely hy the police on the rival fltct ions. Soon after the polls were opened two buildings were bombed in the preseincts of the headquarters of one of the factions. The State Senator’s home was fired upon, and was raked with machine gun bullets. Two election officials were kidnapped. One hundred gangsters were arrested. All the votes in the twenty-first ward were hunted, lighted matches being dropped into the ballot Waxes. One bomb wrecked a brick barn in which were situated a Democrat t Party’s Ward headquarters. The effective organisation of the police prevented more serious riots and deaths. Air Thompson’s supporters have begun a wild celebration, which the police fear will result in additional outbreaks.