The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-15

apparent that, although the productions
 of Vienna and Paris were readily sala-
 ble in England, the peculiar style of the
 American goods did not commend them
 to the English market. This failure.
 however, only led to the adoption of
 new methods. English-made boots and
 shoes were secured, together with all
 the necessary designs and patterns, and
 goods made from these designs, to all
 outward appearance English-made, are
 now being imported into this country. | I have had an interview with a man.
 ufacturer, employing over one thou sand hands, who had a consignment of these goods sent over. He stated that the goods were delivered free at his
 own warehouse door at a lower cost
 than that at which he could produce
 them in his own factory. He could sell
 ten times as many of that class of goods
 as of any other, and customers would
 not know them from goods of English
 make. If the English manufacturers
 could not beat the Americans in price
 the latter would now take a strong hoIll
 of the English market. He added that
 three-fourths of the leather used in the
 Leicester trade was of American tan ming. Questioned as to the cost of man.
 ufacture, he stated that boots of the
 class imported from America would
 cost in making in Leicester Is. to Is. Id. per pair In America they would get
 the same boot made up for Sd. per pair. This saving alone would give the Amer ican manufacturers more than a work ing profit and enable them to compete with English manufacturers
 As to the settlement of the present disastrous conflict, the view expressed by the manufacturer was that 1t was possible, and ought to be arranged be- fore work NFas resumed, to have a piece work statefaent or scale of pay for ma ohine-work based on the American prin- ciple. Such D statement should em- brace but tWo qualities-a best and a connmon-a,ad it ought to be in the pow CT of the 4nanufacturer to have the | work finished as best or common, at his | option This would enable a manufac- turer to have medium or common goods | well finished, provided he paid the ope- | rative for the extra work done. The | should be remunerated ac- | cording to the amount of work he did, | and not according to the value of the | to which that work was ap- | piled, or the quality of the design, or the cost of the upper.
 He then proceeded to sketch a scheme l for increasing the number of men en- gagged. The operatives, he explained, wanted to spread out the work and find | for the unemployed That | increased the cost of production and drove the British manufacturer out of the markets both home and foreign, and instead of increasing the work to be done. 1t would send the trade to America, Germany and Austria where there was the keenest competition. His view was that it would be much better in the interests of both employer and employed if the workmen would work only five hours per day, tho man. lfacturers working two shifts. His firm had laid down six thousand pounds n American machinery, but if the ma 'hines had been worked up to their full capacity they would have had to spend ,nly four thousand pounds. The extra Irving power required in this case ad- led between three and four hundred pounds to the cost, besides increased room. wear and tear, etc He was satisfied that if the men made be best use of their time they could do he amount of work they had been urning out in six hours instead of preading it over ten hours. The un- on, however, would not sanction such scheme at present. |.
 The view quoted as to the value of American goods, ought to add, was ully confirmed by one of the largest wholesale buyers in this country, and e added that he was so satisfied with he samples that he had placed large rders with American firms.-London imes' Leicester Correspondence.