Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-25
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British Commission Reports
That They Have Nothing
to Learn.
AMERICANS BETTER PAID
But the Briton Does Better Work.
Gambling and Pleasure Seek
ing Our Chief Char.
acteristics.
AMERICANS BETTER PAID

London, April 20.-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 condi-
ions of labor there, was Issued yester-
lay.
1t presents the views Of t~wenty-three
delegates who separately synopsized
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 American workman,
while British employers are not as far
advanced as the Americans in the treat
ment of their employees.
Mr.. Moseley says that the American
workman has a far better education;
is infinitely better paid, housed, fed
and clothed, n moreover, much more
SOBER"
Mr.. Moseley says, In conclusion:
If we are told to hold u own in the
commerce of the world the old methods
must be dropped and the old machinery
abandoned"
He believes hat some form of profit
sharing Is the true solution of the CAPT.
sal and labor question. He welcomes
the trusts as best able to compete 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 problem.
The reports OF the delegates differ
concerning the methods of production,
:hough the consensus of opinion is
argely In favor Of America, where
the distinctive feature is a laundering
Tor the latest machinery n h best
method. The American employer and
employed realize more fully than the
British that brains and not Drawn
count"
Chicago HARD Hit.
Delegate Walsh, representing the
British blast furnace men, says that
while the output of the American blast
furnace is double that of the English
furnace, not more than half Of the
American furnaces are of the most
modern type.
James Cox, the delegate for the iron
and steel workers, pays his respect to
Chicago where, he says of his new post
office, Amy third rate corporation in
Great Britain would have accomplished
the work in four years, instead of eight.
This is illustrative Of government work
IN general"
ID. c. Cummings of the iron and steel
ship builders, makes severe criticism
Of the social and moral life in Amer
lea, where, he says, gambling and
pleasure seeking appear to be Charac-
teristics. The disregard for human life,
he corruption in politics and other inn
noralities tend to the moral and
physical deterioration Of the people and
must be arrested if disaster is to be
aVerted.
Mr.. Dollar, representing the Nation.
ii Plasterers' union, found the plaster
ing bad, even in the rooms of the
White House, where the delegates were
received by President Roosevelt"
w. G. Steadman, representing the
parliamentary committee of the trades
union congress-, says the British work
man cannot be beaten in the world 70
solid and we'll finished work. He con
cludes:
Unless something is done to con.
ciliate labor in America the trust sys-
tenn will bring such an uprising as has
not been witnessed in forty years"
Summing up the reports of the dele.
gates, the conclusion seems to be thai
while keenly conscious of American
competition, 1t does not mean a hope.
less position for Great Britain, for tn,
report says:
THE workmen who have built VI
American industries are largely Brit
Ishers. Most of the inventions in
American workshops come from mer
hailing from the old country. Let us
adopt modern methods, and England
will hold her own in the commercial.
rivalry Of the world"