DOCTRINE OF WORK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19761, 12 April 1926, Page 10

DOCTRINE OF WORK

SECRET OF AMERICAN PROSPERITY, • BRITISH DELEGATION’S OBSERVATIONS. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK April 10. (Received April 11, at 11.6 p.m.) The British Trades Union delegation, ■which is sailing to-day, following a month’s visit to study American methods of industrial production, informed interviewers that President Coolidge had told them that the secret of the nigh wages in the United States was work. One delegate, when asked if they were going to return to preach the doctrine ol work to the British workers, replied that there was no necessity, as the British workers knew how to work. Mr A. Browning, of the Associated Blacksmiths’ Society, said that standardisation was probably responsible for the American working man’s capacity to earn a high wage. Mr Fenton M'Pherson, head of the delegation, said that American high wages were due to mass production and high consumption, and that the high standards of living were due to all these conditions. Mr M’Pherson also commented on the movement to encourage working men to invest part of their savings in the indus tries employing them, and said that the movement for joint ownership seemed to have splendid results in many cases.— A. and N.Z. Cable.