WORK AND WAGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6320, 24 February 1922, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

i ' PIECE-WORK. 1 ; AMERICAN ADVICE. i ; ADVANTAGES Op HIGI-I WAGES. | “Australian workers are all right, so •• far as my limited experience enables i me to judge/’ said Mr John A. Manj ley, mill superintendent for Messrs ; Johnson and Johnson, the big firm, ' which manufactures druggists’ goods ; on ia vast scale at New Brunswick, i U.SIA., talking to a representative of tire Sydney Sun recently. “Yes, the mein engaged have all done i their work well,” he remarked, “hut what I cannot understand about your labor conditions is that piece-work is not generally adopted. That system ! is almost universal in America, and, while it enables employees to make big I wages, it also works out to the advantage of employers, by ensuring greater production, and thereby lessening overhead charges. Big wages are good for everybody—for the grocer, the butcher, the “movies,” the hanks, and • the country, providing the output is 1 on a corresponding scale. “Australia is now becoming known in America, though most people still • think it is a little Pacific island, with • a small poulation. But you import far too much. You should manufacture far more lines for your own use, though, of course, there are some things it ma.V not nay to make here, just as » find it advantageous to send some of cur raw material away to he made up.”

“LITHGOW TAILOR.”

PUTS ON TOO MUCH SIDE

I NEWCASTLE Feb. 10. i The members of the deputation c?i politicians and industrialists which journeyed to Sydney to place the matter of putting the unemployed on Government works for which money had been made available in the Newcastle district, are not pleased with tlieir reception by Mr Dooley. They say that Mr Dooley was cold, and “put on side.” Some members of the deputation know the Premier intimately, and they object to his attitude. “The Lithgow tailor ” they term him, and the soreness has not ; yefc worn off. A resolution was carried at last night’s meeting of vne Industrial Council, and is intended to let Mr Dooley, the central executive of the A.L.P., and the Premier’s constituents know that the industrialists of Newcastle have no confidence in Mr Dooley as head of the Labor Government.