GOVERNMENT I^IXING
‘‘One point in Lancashire’s
problem,” says the London
Times, “is the harsh necessity
for some of the most inefficient
firms to be eliminated.” The gov
ernment fixes prices and ignores
incompetence so poor operators
can make a profit. In other
words, John Bull holds an um
brella over a frozen price struc
ture that would melt down to an
honest level under the warm
sunlight of competition. *
Competition sharpens the wits
of American management. In
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vestors and their business execu
tives know that continuous oper
ation is cheaper than batch work,
know there is more to be earned
with low prices an<^ small mar
gins than by big profits on a few
sales. They know volume pro
duction requires good equipment
which, in turn, helps workers do
more and earn more. Fixed cot
ton prices in America will fin
ally give us a dose of Lancashire.
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Lancashire is the name of a
county in England, studded with
up, many milling towns, some
large, some small. Liverpool,
once the world’s leading cotton
! market is in Lancashire. In fact,
the very word Lancashire, from
long usage in the colorful lan
guage of tradespeople, has come
to mean the English cotton tex
tile industry, as Detroit means
automobile manufacturing to us.
Lancashire used to be prosper
ous. Her mills are small in con
trast to what Americans think
about when they speak of a cot
ton mill, but they long provided
work and income for thousands
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, of thrifty subjects of the crown,
i until something went wrong.
Now Lancashire is having her
troubles and is just beginning to
learn what they are. At the bot-i
tom of them is government tin
; kering and price fixing.
SEEKING SOLUTIONS
Some time ago the British cot
ton textile industry sent an in
vestigating committeee to the
United States to find out a few
things. The committee had three
facts in hand: (1) American mills
were turning out better cotton
cloth than the English mills,
(2) it was selling everywhere for
less than the British could af
ford to accept, and (3) American
mill workers were twice as well
paid as the English.
It was bad enough that better
goods at lower prices were tak
ing away England’s used-to-be, i
worldwide markets, It was worse |
that Lancashire’s labor troubles I
increased on account of too many ■
half-paid workers. Mill owners
couldn’t get along without the'
workers but couldn’t pay them'
what they were worth. The prob- i
lem was to find out how Uncle1
Sam kept Lancashire fenced in.
THEY FOUND OUT
Here are some of the things
they learned: English mills are
small and have about one pro
cess apiece while American mills
are large and perform a lot of
different processes. The English
• laborers did considerable work
by hand, such as American mills
do by machinery to gain volume.
English mills turn out less ma
terial per man-hour than Amer
ican mills; from 18 per cent to
67 per cent less.
In America a small number of
workers supervise the operation
of a large number of machines,
spinning, weaving and finishing,
all in one big factory. In Britain
cotton is spun in one factory,
woven in another and finished
in a third. Lancashire producers
of cotton cloth buy and sell end
lessly among themselves. Each
operator does his part and ships
his unfinished work to some
other mill.