SIX-HOUR SHIFTS
HOW TO GET FULL VALUE OF MACHINERY. Lord Leverhulmo, 'one of tho greatest employers of labour in the world, as tlie guest of the Aldwych Club recently was candid with tho business men present concerning tho commercial war to follow tho war of armaments. Ho eaid he was not concerned lest the English-speaking race, which had invented tho oeroplano, tho submarine, the torpedo, the breeohloading gun, tho niachine-cun, and the Dreadnought, and which had produced the eteam engine, tho locomotive, the spinning jenny, the telegraph, telephone, , phonograph, sowing machine, aniline dyes, anaesthetics, and compressed air tubes, amongst other things, oould not do at least as well aftor tho war aa it did before. It was evident to him that the co-part- I nership idea, which worked so woll in , tho Hold of battle against the enemy, would be equally effective in the field of commerce. There was no possibility of reconciling the opposing claims of capital nnd labour. They must bo fused. Copartnership was the solution. "Industrialism is only two centuries old; we hnvo a lot to learn." Lord Lev«rhulme suggested that in future it might prove wise to woPk machinery harder thnn men were worked. "Machinery should be worked twelve hours a day, by two sixhour shifts of workers." Output of material would bo increased, and, at the same time, the wear and tear of the human body would bo lessened. .
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3183, 6 September 1917, Page 8
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