I believe the sound common-sense of the British workingman will supply this. Even in war-time, when Maclean - organized strikes were rampant, it was only a handful who believed in them, the rest followed through fear of the loud mouthed, orator. If a staunch man dared to notum to work "peaceful pickets" stoned him, and so the game went on, but even then there were men who dared resist.
The more thoughtful among the workers, those who had, eyes to see when our export trade gradually diminished thanks to labour trouble, are asserting themselves, and those masters who are wise are going half-way to meet them. Some of the masters who had least trouble during the war, and whose men actually did on more than one occasion resist strike-mongers, were those who made a point of being in direct touch with their employees. This is never impossible," said the head of a big firm to me im discussing the matter, \aif you have not time you cai make it." and he did though he ad some thousands of men under him. If there was discontent he looked.into it himself and did not trust to a garbled account being brought him by some underling.
Fatigue and motion-study is another matter which is claiming the attention of many large em-Ployers of labour, and exhaustive research is being made in this direction. I shall have more to say on the subject in another article.
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