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INDUSTRIAL SANITY.
THE SOCIOLOGICAL SITUATION
1 SOLVED.
(By A. F.)
Here, is in Richmond A
factory to his h has men, in it. ten full
years of life, been obliged to close its
doors for one hour owing to internal
industrial unrest This statement it,
is startling in view of the world wide
price dead yet industrial state that a
study of the methods employed there
should repayment inquiring- mind
In Allie on despite welfare- di part
menu and all manner of costly < open
montition-strikes, lockouts, and the
million tired of the dubious gem mour
tmliMii, bewildering law the nation
by with the brilliance of their ebullitions
Here. in Australia has it tem put it pro
p trams the Union of industrial in
list have been said and it is general
In a clear cut que sum of lion den in a
bout (au in Fitwell and how cheap
c pit it can buy it a
The Pelaco factory is ebfrticiit Its
directors the the find that I freely
in water line would court- and
eighth usent- no pains jirat,nintic |
to quit phil Ethiopia iii part in lit brick j
at the ' self no ' department instituted
h lune America n mular Hirers Yet
it is in her over I > ml steel sink Jt
<iu«e-ilnut I lie in an- Air lillian
m min beef in city direction- like
lead] with interest in the welfare of
their employes a inside the factory They
John on a, tour div s pay for a fur
does work and then conception of i
I am d n h pay is sure sturdy I wager
of on that of the Arbitrator Court
The directors of his successor is busy
and have not round it nee? try to <,
lablish i fighting fund, such is most
Employers set side for the purpose of
fighting industrial battles HIVIUL, no
match babies; in their hands they are
able To devote money is in infinitely
more pleasing object Pelaco employees
are now paid for all statutory hills
md for full or in by s hold n m
( eli year as most, of the land-, in
brth 1 Kttint are on a ye e world basis
it was a, little difficult to time ago
his been finally and satisfactorly in
the M c1 on a basis of average e mines
further u no peace larger than Ce.
loin-, his I ten is led throughout the
you an employee received a bonus of
one week's pay thus the annual holidays
s lengthened to three weeks on full
says condition almost ample cemented
throughout the world
lies in a fit for holidays is in no
sense a, philanthropic movement (the"
director is 1 have said that in an
fine, mixture of commercialism and
philanthropist is merely in equitable
distribution of certain plants usually
st ride for the purpose of disclaim the
efforts of workers, to place them selves
in a bout a position
He Itoi ill is, stark anity Afhy
in Hi n nor is common an employer
should spend the an raids in halting
workers who would be perfectly safe
lied were tin thousands spent on them
his been, and always will be, a riddle
to the student of industrial sociology
Hit Pelaco employs gets what he or
she ians 1 in the Police employee
is content < FLO the Police employee
does not strike or go slow, or pr each
in dious evolutionary doctrines h
cause he or she knows that his or her
prosperity is most richly enters even
with the property of Per leo Ltd
Then is as fine in esprit de corps, (the
sport of tin Une Air Line the
ordinary- doctor once felicitously
termed it to me is will be found in
any school regiment, ship or I story
in the world it is the only fashion
in which last, winter li is ever heard the
tropic.S singing it Ultu work it is
the only victory wherein he his ob
stock keen sympathy, and acts co
open ration between executive and cm
pieces
by a fine old stone dwelling house
next door The girls have luncheon
rooms reading rooms and cloak rooms
all of them newly be fitted and is
decorated in the cotton itself the
plant is of a kind that lies heavy
work, and makes all open ations possible
it a very high speed thus milling
girls to train more than they possibly
could do with antiquated m inefficient
state
The freshness of employees, is as
stated by, the tree distribution of morning
and afternoon and Even those who
are not to i di ml us are urged to take
ten minutes' lost at these times i
opened from which they return refreshed
to the world
At intervals of a mouth round table
conferences are held and attended by
employs is and employees the latter be
mg invited to suggest, to criticise and
to complain if they (consider complaint
necessary fee him they have not had
reason to do much of the latter
The new factory being erected in
Goodwood street Richmond will be
the finest building of its kind in the
world though not the Incest But
this is by no means the probable limit
of Pelaco expansion and the d elector
ate hope shortly to have the finest
staff working the shortest hours, pro
during the greatest quantity, earning
the highest wages of any shirt and
collar of victory in the world file direct
to are no willing to do their part
naturedly put up the finest building
provide the opportunities and sell the
cheapest so that with their employees
doing the ii p in- i they consistently
and loyally do-nothing can stop the
Pelaco organisation from realising its
ideals and living up to its slogan,
"The ATorld 2 Best Alice in Australia.
One can t libel this, sort of thing It
is too true to be in a tag It is not
socialism communism, or even co-operation
in its ordinary sense It is
just stark sanity
If the Australia in in mutantuR r, even
Australian manufacturer, take, a leaf
out of the Pelaco book then many of
our national problems will be solved
This willer b opinion of the Australian
manufacturer leads him to hope that
slowly but none the less surely and
the tally, the hard national common
sense combined with the real practical
idealism of the native born, must
produce such a consummation
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