This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...Unionists' opinions differ on this point, some being in favour of restricting " overtime " work, others opposing such restriction. Certainly whatever may be urged on behalf of Trades Union action, there is a most real danger lest it should in this matter at least, damp the ardour and check the ambitions of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...Unionists' opinions differ on this point, some being in favour of restricting " overtime " work, others opposing such restriction. Certainly whatever may be urged on behalf of Trades Union action, there is a most real danger lest it should in this matter at least, damp the ardour and check the ambitions of the genuine hard-worker. place; and the 2o, ooo establishments working under Government control were " turning out on an average more than twice the product per operative that they did before the war." However workmen may grumble against employers' profits, whatever they may think about the unequal distribution of the spoils, such an increase could not but redound to their gain, such retardation as had existed, could not but mean their loss. Nor was this the only defect which marred the success of Unionist achievement. Even the proudest victory may in the event look very like defeat. The minimum wage, for instance, turns out in practice to be no unmixed blessing; for, if the employer is forced to pay a statutory wage, he will require in compensation a full and adequate return in work; to retain the services of old, weak, or inefficient workmen will not be worth his while; and so, what is gain to some unionists, brings dismissal and penury to others. Even strikes, however triumphant, may mean time wasted, markets lost, trade crippled. In the cotton industry the cupidity of the Workers looked at one time like driving capital out of the business. Even prosperous owners will not embark on new and costly ventures, if they know that a fresh demand for higher wages will surely follow. Struggling firms will shut down rather than run their business at a loss. If trade suffers so must the workman; and if the workmen are ready to " down tools " upon the...
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