Evening journal., 1903-04-18
BRITISH VIEWS Or I.
LABOR QUESTION
Commission Which Visited
America Makes Public
It's Report
COMPLIMENTS METHODS HERE

Workmen Here Are Better Housed,
Fed and Clothed and More Sober.
Brains and Not 6rawn count--A
Slap at Carnegie.
London. April lS.--The report Of the
commission OF British workingmen,
who were taken to the United States
at the end OF last year by Alfred
Moseley. a wealthy Englishman, to
study conditions of labor there, has
been issued. It presents the views of
the 2S delegates who separately
Bynopsise their deductions resulting
from the American trip. The report
shows a lack OF unanimity, except that
all agree that the British workman
has nothing to learn from the Ameri-
can workman, while British employers
are not as far advanced as the Ameri-
cans in the treatment of their EN-
ployes.
Mr. Moseley says that the American
workman has a far better education,
sis infinitely better paid housed, fed
and clothed and moreover much more
sober" Mr. Moseley says in conclu-
sion: IF we are to hold our own in
the commerce of the world the old
methods must be dropped and the old
machinery abandoned"
He believes that some form Of profit
sharing is the true solution of the
capital and labor question. He vel
comes the trusts as best able to COM
pete on the most economical lines. He
says that the organization OF capital
on the one hand. and of labor on the
other will solve the industrial prob
lem
The reports of the delegates differ
concerning the up-to-date methods OF
production, though the consensus Of
opinion is largely in favor of America
where "thc distinctive feature is a
hankerin the latest machinery and
the best method The Americans,
employer and employees, realize more
fully than the Britisher that brains
and not brawn count"
D. C. Cummings, OF the iron and
steel shipbuilders, quotes Shipbuilder
Cramp as saying that Great Britain's
position as the leading shipbuilders is
unassailable and unlikely to be seri-
ously menaced for the next quarter
OF a century"
NJ .Dellar. representing the Ma
tional Plasterers' Union. found the
plastering bad. "even in the rooms of
the White House. where the delegates
were received by President Roose-
velt." Mr. Dellar referring to Home
stead, says: "The principal share
holder might here find a good place
to spend his millions In improving
the conditions Of the working people.
l would for this purpose foregO the
pleasure Of donating libraries to towns
in Great Britain"
w. c. Steadman, representing the
parliamentary committee of the
Trades Union Congress, says the
British workman cannot be beaten in
the world for solid and we'll finished
work. He concludes: Unless some
thing is done to eonciliate labor in
America the trust system will bring
such an uprising as has not been wit
messed for 40 years"
Summing up the reports of the dele
gates. the conclusion seems to be that
while keenly conscious Of American
competition, It does not mean a hope
less position for Great Britain, for thS
report says,
"The workmen who have built VI
American industries are largely Brit
islfers. Most Of the inventions II
American workshops come from mel
hailing from the old country. Let u'
adopt modern methods, and England
will hold her own in the commercial
rivalry OF the world"