12 SEPTEMBER 1924, Page 3

Unenlightened employers in this country have been greatly to blame

in the past for reducing the scale of payment by results when a few men seemed to be earning very large wages. " Ca' canny " was the not unnatural answer of the men. The employers failed to notice the simple economic fact that a man who produces twice as much as he produces under, say, the ea' canny system is saving the firm one man's overhead charges for a whole day. In comparison with these expenses the extra wages of the men, if not small, are, at all events, very well worth paying. Cannot a general conference at last bring to an end the conviction of the men that they will be actually penalized for working hard under payment by results ? * * *