. AMBITION WANTED.
What, of course, is required in this country is that industry should be relieved from excessive taxation and should be freer to fight its way to prosperity and by its owdorgathation and ingenuity should be able once more not only to hold its own in competition with other coun- tries but take a sufficient lead in supplying foreign markets to win back industrial activity and prosperity to an extent" proViding employment' for the population. Much might be done in this direction in the way of a strong lead through drastic economy in the National Expenditure; • much might no doubt also be done, and,' indeed, is- being 'done, through improved industrial re- organization. .What,. however, is also required is a a quickening of mbitious effort through all sections of the • community.- It is a quickening which can be given to some extent by employers themselves in adequate rewards for increased quantity and efficiency of 'output, but it must alsO come from a desire on the part of the worker to - secure better wages even if the price of longer hours and. more intense effort has to be paid. And if, in trade union regulations there should be anything to cramp this spirit of energy and ambition7--which, after all, is the country's greatest asset—then it is time that the power of those unions in those particular respects was no longer permitted to drag down the moral stamina of millions of workers in our great industries.
ARTHUR W. KIDDY.
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