INDUSTRY IN AMERICA.

Wairarapa Age, 15 March 1927, Page 5

INDUSTRY IN AMERICA.

INSPECTION BY AUSTRALIAN DELEGATION. TRAINING, POWER, AND PIECE WORK. March 13. The Australian Industrial Mission to the United States visited Milwaukee and spent an afternoon inspecting a vocational school covering all the children in Milwaukee and part of the State of Wisconsin. The scheme aims at improving the standards of the people, and increasing the consumption of American products. Special taxation is imposed making the vocational school free to everyone including neymen desiring to improve theif posi? tions, _ Children, working between the ages of 14 and 16’ must attend, mostly in their employers’ time. The engineering members of the mission were greatly impressed with the Allis and Chalmers Machinery Works at Milwaukee, employing six thousand men. No labour restrictions are experienced, the workmen earning upwards of £6O a month in the busy periods. A remarkable time-saving hydraulic casting cleaifjr, costing £16,000 and eliminating 65 workmen pad for itself in a year. All employees are on piece task work. The cheapness of power m the industries inspected surprised the mission. The Washburn Crosby Company, flour millers, Minneapolis, pay less than id a kilowat-hour, and Allis, Chalmers are paying £1 a ton for coal. —(A. and N.Z.)