The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-08
MOSELY COMMISSION.
TALK WITH LEADER OF BRIT
 ISH TRADE -UNIoNIsTs.
Labor in This Country as Seer :, Through European Spectacles " Trusts Said to Be Efficient
 Employers.

rhis afternoon (wrttes a London repre- sentative Of the Manchester Guardian) uao snort conversation with Mir Alfred ~osety, Just nome from. the personally conducted tour" in America which twen- ty-three leading English trade unionists owe 10 him. It is an odd thing that the very hrst opportunity that a representa- uVe Engiish trade unionism has had of carefully observing the industrial meth- oos or England's greatest manufacturing TiVal should have been afforded by the munincence of a London diamond mer- cnant s(busy with his own trade and only interested in the general industrial prob lem as keen spectator) putting into pracuce a plan that nobody else whose puslness might properly be to think of such plan seems in fact to have thought or. In these days when even capital is cosmopolitan it has many opportunities In the routine of it's own affairs of learn Ing lessons from the enemy, and is even able to come home and tell the labor of Its own country what lessons other coun- tries may or may not teach. But MT. Moseley's expedition has brought organ 1zed English labor into direct contact with Its own class in a land from which 1t has probably most to learn. Happily, MT. Mosely Is so pleased with the results of the expedition that he thinks it has en- trely fulfilled his intention and justified his outlay
 T have had the idea on my mind for several years" he said, "and only the war prevented me carrying 1t out. Two or three years ago it struck me, as an observer of industrial struggles and per plexities here that it was time the Brit ish workman knew something at first hand of the industrial methods of coun- try so clearly destined to revolutionize our own as America. It is better to learn h lesson in time to profit by 1t than leave 1t until 1t is too late to learn. That be- Ing so. 1 had only to go over to America to secure the open door for the visitors and to ask the unions of all the staple trades to select their men. We left here in October. and our first visit was to Schenectady. That is place none too we'll known here, and yet the head works of the American Locomotive Company are there. The Trust turns out thousands of locomotives a year, and the electrical works employed 12.00O people. We have nothing in England like those Schenec- tady Electrical Works, though the Vest inghouse people. when they get in full work, will be getting near it. From Schnectady we went to Albany, and thence to Niagara to see the electrical power station. Buffalo, Cleveland and Chicago came next, and then we went on to Dayton. The attraction there, or course was the work of the National Cash Registry Company, which opened the eyes of the delegates. We have ab- solutely no works in Great Britain that even approach the plan of those at Day ton for the material well-being and com fort of the employees. English works are sheds in comparison. Then we went to Pittsburg, Washington and Philadelphia and hack to New York
 up to this point we had travelled as body, taking general stock of the general conditions in the great industrial centers of the States and at New York the depu- tation split up, and the representatives of the cotton spinners, Photographic print CTS, carpenters. cabinetmakers, cultlers. leather workers, bookbinders, iron and steel workers, blast furnacemen, paper makers, boilermakers. shipwrights, boot makers and bricklayers went to study their own particular trades In this center or that"
 And what most impressed them?"
 ''I would rather let them speak for them selves, as they will do in the reports they will make to their constituents. But of course-for it Is a matter of course with observant and intelligent men-they could not fail to be impressed by the general superiority of the advantages of Ameri- can workmen. They had never before seen such machinery-that again is a matter of course. If they had any lin- gering doubts of the advantage, and so of the inevitability, of machinery If country is to keep in the industrial van, those thoughts were certainly dispelled."
 "Did they see anything of the method In operation under trusts?"
 Certainly, in several industries. What they thought they will say, but l think ths trusts are working exceedingly well. The trust Is undoubtedly a most efficient employer, and consequently has the most efficient workmen. These huge organza- tions are able to introduce the very best possible machinery fer the work to be dcne and, consequently, for the worimen who has to do it. His earnings are ln- creased, the best workman gets the best