LABOUR AND REST.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 128, 2 June 1927, Page 6

LABOUR AND REST.

A H AVYVS EXPEKIEHCE.

(Tβ tie Editor.) > • T ,, * article "Labour and Rest" in a m,ii Star" should be of interest to evexvonT2l » honestly concerned about equitable* rehrtiZ between employer and employed. I tniwuuthe figures are correct, but fuller detaflTsl? respect to variety of occupations eWd » heavy labour and number of men i««!L2 would be of v, Ju e- While mv own «£22 is almost wholly based upon beavv labour yet it has been gainS of that work in half . down if the eleven minutes be meant to include J-J variation of Uie work in hand and" not JE2 stoppage, there can be Jin}, question ofS correctness. In my own experience thTklS results were usually obtained where the f«Z man often the contractor, t*ok an active ££ in the work- By that. Ido not me*T«S2 111* amount of work done, but the eiutH-2 co-operation which was developed TLJ known all sorts of bosses mJt, t — * ™T" watchmen, others real leaders" who usSl ££ heads laying out the work to advantaV 2? mg a hand, or at least giving „ <£&£* word to one who was in « «hT placTlSS! things wer* beginning to drag i wl *«?!! pick and shovel worfc there b jh* human machine to break boss would make a joking remark, fill uJuLj his pipe, and. after « few minutes' banter Si pipes going, the work would go on easieT.«!through the foreman's Uctfu! divert boss who is a bully usually doesn't hut 1«T In a good many instances I have known «J* -£!?"* S*"** , * 1 h ? **>* D tend«r2 roll up" and go down the line S*W That is a glimpse at one side. It horfr fat U> glance at the other. On anv job likely to be three type* of much in the minority. I am pleased te-il? One of these is the -crawler," who, frWaS «enUl tw,st tnes to curry favour VT«TS! boss and show up' a weaker comrade b» tjanng into the job: Then the«T £ loafer." usually « nondescript, often £ plain lazy. The other is the "agiUtor" in season and out, keeps harpin7awaTVS parrot-like phrases of and. when a crisis has arisen, usuallv behind h» manly fellows. If , ganger to his and ba 9 a sense of humour u< the work permiu. he need not risk m antagonism by "firing" M y or Mof Ut him put the crawler and loafer to work together as mates, and place the mouthy dk. ciple of revolution by himself, and he win find the trouble-makers leaving such unfruitful environment on their own accord. The hat paragraph in "Labour and Rest" is so tree Chat all employers who do not alreadv practieit should have it framed and hungup orer t£ de * t XAWT.