HIGH WAGES IN AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 167, 12 April 1926, Page 7

HIGH WAGES IN AMERICA

VIEWS OF BRITISH TRADES DELEGATION < (Rec. April 11, 11.5 p.m.) New York, April 10 t The British trades union delegation is sailing to-day, following a month’s visit to study American methods of industrial production. They informed interviewers that President Coolidge . told them that the secret of the high wages in the United States was work. One delegate, when asked if they would return to preach the doctrine of work to the British workers, replied: “There is no necessity. The British workers know how to» work.” Mr. A. Browning, of the Associated Blacksmiths’ Society, said that standardisation was pfobably responsible for the American working man’s capacity to earn a high wage. Mr. Fenton McPherson, head of the delegation, said the American high wages were due to production and high 'consumption, and that the high standards of living were 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 cmploying them and said the movement of joint ownership seemed to have had splendid results in many cases.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.