IS LABOUR GROWING LESS EFFICIENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 307, 2 January 1908, Page 4

IS LABOUR GROWING LESS EFFICIENT.

I Tli.it there i*. an ineiT.i>i»£ lack ot ellkirucy in labour, marked by a lc>-- ' output ami by lowered quality. is . averted by the writer o! a leading j article in the New York Iron A*»c. Tlii> p.i|MT believ*-*- tliat the iiicrea-e 1 in the volume ot —. i- at the Im»i , torn of the trouble. -irne every work > man ha- felt that tl»ere was -ure to be i a job for him. no matin- how idip-diod hi- work. Th*' prospect nt a bu-ine»> j dfliue. which tin* writer <on>ider> im- ; mlticnt. will. hj»» think", furnish the remftly. UV r*M<{: "The ;ua\v-f evil from i which thi- country i- now -nt v «-: :n ; graver hy far than the c\a<:;rt>ntred iiau | from monopolies or from freight r.»baie>. is> the decline in the efficiency i ial>oiir. It limK expression in ?douch'\ | work on tin- part of who have i never been or iu\ incapable oi ( !«*arnin;r. To tin- more vriou- defect -i' • lowered quality i> added the troublesome ! r>.ttur#» of lessened quantity. Tin-re ha* InM'n an extraordinary demand for labour lor all kinds. So far as that ha- rai-ed and directly increased the oc-t .f employer- have had no it is a trouhhvome and matter to carry thrm hack (- level. lii'ci- kno.v