In an endeavour to educate their workers up to higher production, a well-known firm of Sheffield engineers, Messrs. W. H. Dorman & Ca., have produced a book which shows some startling figures. Taking pre-war production as a standard, they are able to prove that Amer: can industrial workers in general produce about three times as much as do the British. In coal-mining, agriculture and railway transport the figures are practically the same, and if anything w the workers the serious business it is for the country, the: figures should do so. The book, we believe, is scrupulously fair, for attention is drawn in it to the backwardness of employers in the introduction of the most modern mechanical labour-saving devices, but it does not hesitate to charge the workmen with their share of the trouble. Emphasis is laid upon that terrible Labour fallacy of restriction of output and refusal to consent to dilution of labour by the introduction of untrained ex-service men. Happily there is a note of comfort to be found in the book, and this is that Labour's objection to dilution is disappearing and that saner views are being felt upon the question of output. It is to be hoped that this view is correct, for while industrial efficiency in America is again on the upgrade after the setback due to war, there have, so far, been few signs of anything of the kind in England.
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