The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-13
J.. S.IMPRESSES
BRITISH VISITOR
SIR ALBERT STANLEY SAYS ENG
LAND MUST FOLLOW OUR
LEAD OR FAIL

recent visit to America, with some
Every vivid Impressions" in regard
to Britain's reconstruction prob
lens.
In fact, il the people of Great
Britain refuse to do what America
is prepared to do, he writes in the
Pail Mall Gazette, the United King
dom must. in the natural course OF
events, fail. Continuing, he writes:
I'm the first place, I feel con
WINGED that British labor must be
ready to meet the same conditions
as prevail in America. Increased
production is our only salvation. If
we desire success we must adopt the
same course as America has ac-
cepted.
America has pinned her faith to
Iabor-saving devices, realizing fully
that labor-saving means increased
production and increased employ
ment. In England. unfortunately.
the idea predominates hat the en-
ployment of such machinery would
decrease the earning power of labor
and would increase unemployment
Americas experiments in this
direction have proved that the ex-
act opposite is the case. The condi-
ton of the working man in works
equipped with this machinery has
in every case been infinitely bet
tered; thus the English idea that the
employment of such machinery i'm
plies loss of wages and unemploy-
ment is proved to be a complete
fa1lacy.
"The output of the ~present-day
factory or workshop is not depend
ent on the muscle or Drawn of the
working ma Brain power is rap
idly taking the place of brute force,
and in the United States SO swiftly
is this being achieved that the un-
skilled Taborer is unknown. The
foreign laborer, after a few weeks
in America, attains a standard of eff
ficiency in the various jobs for which
he is fitted hat would astonish his
more @~Ieisurely compatriots.' This
added efficiency he gains without
any added exertion.
"As a further proof that labor
saving machinery is of benefit to
the working man, America, while
forging ahead, is easily paying by
far the highest wages in the world.
while her percentage of unemployed
is less than that of any other coun-
try. If England is to meet Ameri-
can competition in the markets of
the world. two things must be done;
the first Is hat the working man
must be brought to realize that his
increased comfort and prosperity
depend upon his acceptance of these
devices which have Just outlined.
1.-THE second and equally vital is
that the manufacturer and employer
must realize that his interests are
equally bound up with Iabor-saving
machinery. To him I would say,
wages are not measured
by money, but by output"
$50 long as the employer con
tinues to use out-of-date machinery
this country will remain financially
stagnant. The employer who per-
sists in making use of anything but
the most up-to-date methods of pro-
duction is as equally culpable as
the workman who adopts the Ca
canny' system OF decreased produc-
ton.
Standardization is practically the
keynote to Americas p~henomenally
rapid industrial advance. but con-
of shipping goes we "a hold our
own, providing that a more efficient
use of our ships is made than at
present.
"Our ports, for instance, are
largely devoid of those la~bor-saving
devices which l have pointed out as
being 10 necessary.
81 have recently been asked il, in
my opinion, Standardization and ma
tionalization can run in harness.
Emphatically no. Naturalization
would most decidedly drag down
Standardization. My view of the in
dustrial situation of the future is
cordial relation between employer
and employed, and let this be u
motto-efficiency, prosperity and
"Co-operation with America is not
only possible, but is desired by her
and must be beneficial to us both"