Science Waiting on Industry Gives America Prosperity

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 179, 19 October 1927, Page 1

Science Waiting on Industry Gives America Prosperity

Lesson to Be Learned

By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.15 a.m. ADELAIDE, To-day. TyTR. McINNES, who was a member of the Industrial Commission which recently visited the United States, in an addendum to the combined report being submitted to the Federal Government, gives some views he reached regarding American industry. “The great lesson to be learned from America,” he says, “is the extent to which scientific research has been applied to industry as a whole, resulting in efficiency of management, supervision, and equipment, and up-to-date organisation and plant.” Comparatively, Australian workmen are handicapped by the absence of up-to-date equipment and power, and therefore have to work harder. Relations between employer and employee, he states, can be handled thoroughly only by the organised forces of each side. The tendency in America is for shorter hours and a shorter working week. Unions there refuse to consider the fixation of wages and conditions on the rise and fall in the co3t of foods. They claim that labouri is entitled to a share in the prosperity of an industry in some measure in addition to wages. In America there is undoubtedly hostility to any form of arbitration.— A. and N.Z.