HIGH WAGES.

Shannon News, 13 April 1926, Page 4

HIGH WAGES.

i BRITISH DELEGATION LEARNS SECRET. NEW" YORK, April 10. A British Trades Union delegation is sailing to-day, following a month s visit to study American methods of industrial production. Members informed interviewers that President Coolidge told them that the secret of 1 the high wages in the United States was work. One delegate, when asked if they were returning to preach the doctrine of work to the British workers, rei>lled: "There is no necessity. British workers know how to. work.” Mr. A. Browning, of the Associated Blacksmiths’ Society, said standardisation was probably responsible for the American working man’s capacity to earn a high wage. Mr. Fenton McPherson, head of the delegation, said American high wages were due to production and high consumption and that to high standards of living are due all these conditions. Mr. McPherson also commented on the movement to encourage working men to invest part of their savings in the industries employing them and the movement of joint ownership seemed Jo., have splendid results in many cases.