“MAKE THE JOB LAST”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 June 1931, Page 3

“MAKE THE JOB LAST”

SHORT-SIGHTED ADVICE (Contributed by the New Zealand Welfare League) One of the most stupid and shortsighted bits of advice so often given to men commencing a job —is “make the job last.” The men who give this advice are either deliberately misleading the workers or are too ignorant to realise the disastrous effect it has on employment generally. It should be evident to any one who thinks for a moment that if men on a job at a daily or hourly wage, deliberately “make the job last” by working slowly, then the job costs more than it is worth. What is the result? People who want jobs done, simply put off having them done because they cannot afford the extra cost due to thd policy of “making the job last,” thus many who would normally be employed are unable to get work. Every advice which has been adopted by organised labour to limit the work done has had the effect of increasing the cost of that work and making it harder for others to get employment. A very good instance of this was seen in England. The British bricklayer, was persuaded by his leaders that if he would only lay half the number of bricks that he formerly laid, the bosses would have to take on more men and thus provide work for those bricklayers who were temporarily out of work.

The apparent theory behind this ridiculous policy was that by doing les t s he wa*s creating two jobs where only one existed before. But what he was really doing was to make bricklaying so expensive that very few could afford to build in brick. Thus instead of making a job for others, he found that he was losing his own job through the falling off of bricklaying orders. To “make'the job last” or to make it necessary to employ two men one a one man job, merely has the effect of so increasing the cost that fewer jobs are available because people cannot afford to have the work done.

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