As regards industry in general, the competition of the world,
said Mr. Baldwin, was fiercer than ever.
• Our coal, iron and steel, and shipbuilding and engineering trades were going through the cruellest times that any industries had ever experienced. In view of there difficulties he appealed once more for a new spirit in industry—for a truce. He gladly acknowledged that a new sense of responsibility wrs growing up. Men of all classes were more reluctant than before to make their own troubles an occasion for injuring the whole nation. He wanted to see ten per cent. more efficiency in the management of industry and the devotion of the best brains to the problems of what •was really a new epoch. Yet although technical efficiency was much it was not everything ; no management was truly scientific which forgot " the man inside the workman." The workman must be consulted more on matters of routine manage- ment. But on the other • hand there was no room in the England of to-day for the wrecker or the slacker.
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