INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS ABROAD

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 8, 9 January 1920, Page 7

INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS ABROAD

LESS INDIVIDUAL EFFORT.

(BY TELEGRAPH,—SPECIAL TO MB POST.)

AUCKLAND, This Day.

Referring to industrial conditions abroad, Mr. T. Simsoiij works superintendent for the Auckland Farmers/ Freezing Company, who has just returned from a trip to Britain and the United States, stated yesterday that exceptional activity was manifested in all branches of industry as far a; receipt of orders was concerned, but the workmen were turning out far less work per day than was the case before the war. Individual effort,, apparently, was so much less than previously that it appeared to be extremely "doubtful if the increase in production that was so much talked about would really be achieved. This criticism, he said, w«3 jus^ as applicable to the American workman as to the British, and apparently the men had not yet settled down to that steady industrial effort that was interrupted by the outbreak of war. Mentioning the railway strike, which occurred during his visit to England, Mr. Simson said that what he had observed during the strike had convinced : him that the great body of British people were opposed to strike methods. It appeared to him that directly the strike began, "duke's 3on, cook's son," and members of every other grade of society, loyally combined to resist the attempt by on.c section of the community to coerce the authorities. He expressed the opinion that the strike was really heaten before it began. Certainly, within twenty-four hours it was obvious that it was doomed to failure.