The sun., 1903-04-18
As BRITISH WORKIEN SAW Us
REPORT OF ALFRED MOSELY AND
HIS COMMISSION.
He Was More Impressed with the Hustle,
EdUcation and Prosperity oS Our
workmen Than were the Delegates
with Him-He Praises Front SHARING.

Education and Prosperity oS Our
Workmen Than were the Delegates
with Him-He Praises Front sharing.
Special Gable Dsspaiea 10 TIE SON.
LONDON. April 17.-Mr. hlfrcd Mosely
who recently sent an Industrial commission
to the United States, and who himself
visited that country to study industrial
conditions. has issued a comprehensive re.
port Of the work Of the commission.
There Is a noteworthy disparity between
Mr.. Moselys own remarks and those Of
some Of the delegates. Mr.. Mosely ID
convinced that the American workmen are
better educated. better housed. better fed
better clothed and more energetic than
their British brothers. and that they are
infinitely more sober, for which reason
they are more capable OF using their brains
rs well as their hands.
They are. indeed. more thoroughly fitted
for the struggle Of life by their superior
education, while the manufacturers are
more enterprising and more ably seconded
by their workmen, as a body. than Is the
case In England.
Mr.. Mosely. however, does not blame
the English workman. He says 1t. is the
employer who should be criticised for not
encouraging the men by pecuniary re-
wards to obtain the maximum output.
He believes the true solution OF the whole
problem is proht-sharing in some form,
and that masters and men alike ought to
turn their eyes to that goal.
The opinions OF twenty delegates, as ex-
pressed In their written reports. vary oon-
siderably from one another and from Mr..
Mosely's. but their general characteristics
are hsular scepticism regarding the super
iority OF American methods and amused
Indifference 70 the Transatlantic tendency
to regard British manufacturers and
workmen as slow-thinking and otherwise
sluggish.
The delegates were duly impressed by
the natural resources Of the United States
a. q manufacturing nation. but did not
find the American workman moro skilled
than the British. Some, indeed. regard him
az inferior to the British and are convinced
that, given . little more mental energy
among employers and employed. Great
Britain need not fear holding her own in
the industrial struggle.
Some Of the delegates looked in vain for
signs Of the extraordinary hustling COM
monty attributed to American workmen.
Mr.. Watts, representing the British blast
furnace men, did not see a man who could
work beside a British furnace man for a
single shift.
Mr.. Cox Of the Iron and Steel Workers
says that II the best American workman
had to come to Great Britain and work
under British conditions he would be as
great failure as many Of the British mana
gers would be in America.
Mr.. Steadman, representing the Parlia-
mentary COMMITTEES OF the Trades Congress,
says that on the whole the Americans do
not turn out better work than the Brit ish.
Indeed, he does not consider il as good.
He admits that elementary education
In the United States is superior to that in
Great Britain. but technical instruction
is inferior. and 1t is a matter OF opinion
whether the general conditions OF the life
Of tire American workmen In better than
those OF the English. Mr.. Steadman. how
ever, in common with nearly all the dele
gates. agrees that the American workmen
are more sober than the English.
An appendix attached to the report,
showing the progress Of United States
manufactures at the end OF the nineteenth
century, indicates that in some markets.
notably Canada and the Far East, the United
States is gaining at Great Britein's expense
but this Is not SO, on the whole, in Europe.