or mines does not care to earn more than a
certain sum per week." So far as miners are concerned, I have nothing to my, except that the truth of that statement appears to be borne out by the fact that miners prefer to work only five days in the week, and the fact that on the average miners do not, while at work, produce as much coal as they can. Compare their output with that of miners in the United States. So far se the ship- building trade is concerned, it is well known that as wages and piece-work prices rise, the output of work falls. That process has been steadily going on for very many years, and in war time, with greatly increased piece-work prices, the piece. workers as well as time-workers in the shipyards did twenty per cent. lees work per man per hour in 1918 than in 1919. No doubt Mr. Cutter is quite right if he simply means that the miners (and the shipyard men) do rare to earn larger sums, if they can do so without working longer hours or working
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