| Show the man and the job 0 ONE NE of the things the government promised to do in england chen the agreement ivi ma mauo de for calling off the general strike was lo 10 reorganize tae coal jimr mining t industry so fits as its relation io to labor ie Is concerned this means two fundamental things the anes arc are carry carrying too great an overhead too many non producers arc tire living off them english coal competes with coal from other lands landi in foreign markets and must have economy of production in order to do si s the heavy rents and realities to private landowners must contie con tinne and ana low cost of production lias has to come out of the is workers so the mine operators cut v ages and added an hour a day to the working time tho the second fundamental trouble is that there arc tire more miners minem than are needed if the mines arc are to be arke 1 full time by the bame same breiva yf of men that meana ony only aart time for each miner minert and even a good wage totals too little for a family aluen it is is not a full time and regular wage cure of the first evil seems possible only thru through tigh the purchase of thi th mines by the government and their oper 0 alou by dy th government or their rental to private operators at ut a low prie o e and with an agreement to pay pity a minimum wage scale fixed b the gover maent that is what the ners want and what the th characteristic act conservatism of the english people balks at doing that is also what the coal miners in the united states want though there is not so great an evil of land rental charges here the other thing needed ia is a dispersal of the extra labor to other employment sn that full time at good wages may be given to those who remain on the job one of the s suggestions for this is the stop 4 ping of 0 amplo employment merit of new men over 18 years of age so long as ps there is an excess of experienced men that f would gradually lessen the surplus of labor but not rap rapidly ra idl so long tong as bos growing up were mere still taken into the ranks it is the custom there as here for the ba boys to go into the mines at any barly age and thus the whole family re mains in that amplo creating an of labor there is mort opportunity tunit in this country for bos to yet get out into the world and other work et we ilso have an excess execs cf of miners the great pr problem of the future is is going to be the co ordination ordinations of labor with industry so that every man will have a job and every job joh will have p F man how that solution is to be made nade is the problem S aple mple moving about of labor is not the answer else ta tu h T W IV W jim have e settled the matter long ago that leads to irregularity and t both of ni which aich arc are bad for industry and for the ii worker oy ker himself |
