IN UNITED STATES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 61, 14 March 1927, Page 10

IN UNITED STATES

INDUSTRIAL MISSION: UNRESTRICTED LABOUR / AUSTRALIANS IMPRESSED a (United Press Association.—Copyright.)' (Eeceived 14th March, 2 p.m.) • " CHICAGO, 13th March. ' 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 tho State of "Wisconsin. The scheme .ainia at improving the standards of tha people, and increasing the consumption of American products. Special taxation is imposed making the vocational school free to everyone including • journeymen desiring to improve their positions. . . '*- .. ■ Children, working between the ages of 14 and 16 must attend, mostly, hi their employers'time. .: • ;■ The engineering members of the mission were greatly impressed with ths Alhs and Chalmers Machinery Works at Milwaukee, employing six'thousand men. No labour restrictions are" 'experienced, the workmen earning upwards of £60 a month in the busy per-" iods. A remarkable time-saving: hydraulic casting cleaner, costing £16,009 and eliminating 65 workmen paid for itself in a year. All employees are;on. piece task work. . The cheapness- of power in the industries inspected surprised the mission. The Washbum Crosby Company, flour millers; Minneapolis, pay less than id. a kilowat-hpur and Alhs, Chalmers are payine £1 v. ton for .coal.. ■. '