DOCTRINE OF WORK.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 12 April 1926, Page 9

DOCTRINE OF WORK.

SECRET OF AMERICAN PROSPERITY. ‘ BRITISH DELEGATIONS OBSERVATIONS. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, (Received April .11, 11.5 p.m.) NEAV YORK, April 11. The British Trades Union Delegation is sailing to-day following on f Jir James Monk’s visit to study American methods of industrial production. The delegation informed the interviewers that President Coolidge told them that the secret of high wages in the United States was work. One delegate, when asked if they would return to preach the doctrine of work to British workers, replied: “There is no necessity. British workers know how to work.” Mr A. Browning, of the Associated Blacksmiths Society, said that standardisation was probably responsible for the American working man’s capacity to earn a high wage. Mr Fenton McPherson, head of the delegation, said that American high wages were due to production and high consumption, and that high standards of living are due to 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 to have splendid results in many bases.