ENGLAND 50 YEARS BEHIND

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3493, 1 November 1926, Page 15

ENGLAND 50 YEARS BEHIND

Cli CHIEF FINDS THE SAME OIiD PLANT. [E REASON OF AMERICA’S SUCCESS. igland might easily become a of prosperity, in the view of H. Parrock, an Englishman who, ■ a successful career in the ed States,' returned home, for a lay. 5y organisation, by employers ■workmen pulling together, and he adoption ’ ofi economic rrielh* ’ said Mr , Parrock, “industry in rioa ,is .prospering- as jicvcr.. bfc ; and there is no reason whatwhy England should not be Lily prosperous if all engaged in notion would put their backs it, adopt modern up-to-date hods, and co-operate to improve economic situation'.”

r Parrock went to the United cs from Bricrlcy Hill, Stafford0, neariy 50 years ago to seek fortune. He became superinlent of the Republic Iron and :1 Company, • superintendent /Of the, negio Steel Company of YoungSh, .Ohio, ‘and held the post of irniPsionor of Public Works in ingsfown.

There is no necessity for the pre- ; state of affairs, in England,” he laired. “If masters" and men would. r ‘buck up’ and, do dee. The Briton cannot be ten in industry if ho will only' about it, and you would be surged to see the . number of Engitnen of humble origin who have iO- to America- and, who are; at heads of great industrial cones.” tr Parrock declared that the rea-rer-America’s-success-was • contration in industry, the introduci of labour-saving appliances, the dication of scientific methods, the nination of waste, and the ruth--3 scrapping of anything which arded the efficiency and rapidity output. ‘Coal in America for the steel insthy Is only about 10s a ton,” he ied. “A‘ number of companies ! their own pulverised coal. This il is crushed and heated, so that .cn it reaches tho furnace it is nost like gqs, and tho maximum heat and value 'is obtained from

‘‘Miners in these American mines 9 each producing four tons of il a day, compared with one ton man daily produced in Great Brin-

“They hew the coal by pneumadrills, have the latest machinery • quickly getting it away, and for ier purposes, and earn about £7 week, working eight hours a day ■ a six-day week.

T find on returning to Bricrioy 11 that tho plant is practically the ne as when I left.

“Labour-saving machinery does t throw people out of work. It satcs new conditions and extra irk," ■ . ■