WILL TO WORK.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17087, 16 July 1926, Page 4

WILL TO WORK.

U.S.A. I XDESTEJ AI. PARADISE. SIR -lAS. ELDER TKI.I.S. NEW YORK, July 21. “There arc many plumes of life in the United Stales that Australia and the rest of the British Empire should study,” said the retiring Australian Comissiuner to I’.S.A., Sir James .Elder, at a, farewell gathering of the British. Luncheon Club to-day. From these tilings, he went on, came, the amazing prosperity of the Enited States. The will to work made possible work round the clock. Some industries were continuously going, while some missed only Sundays. Nowhere else did employers carry out such education and welfare work among their employees. Ho had been deeply impressed, lie said, by employers and workers meeting as friends, and with no such relation as master and servant. The workers believed that labor-saving dc viees benefited everyone, themselves included, as the lower prices increased the demand, and made more work for Ihcm. Employers paid well and by results —a. system which the men no longer opposed, and which had resulted in reduced hours and increased pay. As extraordinary as the co-operation between employer and employee was the co-ordination of industrial units. The British Empire had a long way to go before reaching the stage of openhanded, all-embracing camaraderie seen in America. Americans, he declared. had practically no business secrets, and were willing to impart knowledge to all inquirers.

Finns engaged in the same industry continuously conferred, not only concerning com mop interests such as pay and work conditions, but regarding private business details. The spectacle of competitors thus unburdening themselves revealed a dear understanding of the benefits to bo derived individually from honest, friendly cooperation. Americans were tolerant of and kindly disposed towards the British Empire, which should cherish the American. sentiment, as lasting benefit to the world would result from the friendship. “They desire to be our friends and to know us bet ter,’ concluded Sir James, “so let us respond to their open-handed, generous hospitality. Let us get together, for American manhood is of a quality that commands the highest respect, and altogether is worthy of the warmest response from I lie citizens of the British Empire.”