"The Round Table"
first article in The Round Table deals with " The Imperial Conference." The writer gives expression to "criticisms, doubts and fears," but concludes that "only in the last resort of war can any real peril now assail the British Empire." "American Industry and its Significance" confronts the reader with some alarming facts "The British industrial population produces only a quarter as much as the American although it is half as big ; in other words the output per head in the United States is double that in this country." At the same time wages are "usually at least double those paid in the corresponding British industry." The writer would have US learn from America to aim at "human contact between management and work people within the works," and to strive to give to the workman " a better understanding of the concern from which he derives his livelihood and of the iniPortance of his own contribution to its prosperity." Again, ' If British employers were more ready to exchange ideas and less anxious to hide their light under a bushel lest it should Possibly illuminate and help someone else, there would be no need to go to America for instruction." "Great Britain : The Outlook," is a deeply interesting analysis of the present Political Position. It is divided under three heads. "After the Strike," "The Parliamentary Programme," and The Liberal Dissensions." The writer believes that so far as the strike is concerned we have-still a debt to pay "and a quarrel 1° be mended." He points out that the Unemployment insurance Scheme now to be modified has not worked so !flilly as has been supposed. With regard to the Liberals, the sum of the matter is that if Mr. Lloyd George has still t° recapture the whole confidence of the Liberal Party he has re-established himself in a commanding position in its
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