Full up and fed up; the worker's mind in crowded Britain . istance to go, I grant you, but were gettingready to go fast—^with that Talbot, for instance, whenshes goin right she certainly puts out the steel—and wereputting in more, with a big mixing fiu-nace soon. Tenthousand tons a week, thjats what were after. He was much interested in my account of our tar gunsat Stackton, natural gas, etc., and was very unhappy atthe present low quaUty of coal coming from the companyscoUieries a few miles away. The man from America in charge of as tumble-down acollection of blasts and stoves as could be ima
Full up and fed up; the worker's mind in crowded Britain . istance to go, I grant you, but were gettingready to go fast—^with that Talbot, for instance, whenshes goin right she certainly puts out the steel—and wereputting in more, with a big mixing fiu-nace soon. Tenthousand tons a week, thjats what were after. He was much interested in my account of our tar gunsat Stackton, natural gas, etc., and was very unhappy atthe present low quaUty of coal coming from the companyscoUieries a few miles away. The man from America in charge of as tumble-down acollection of blasts and stoves as could be imagined, isalso sure the eight-hour day is coming in America. The oldway is too long, everybody is persuaded here, especiallywhen the work is as hard and dirty and continuous as ona floor or around the stoves. Everybody here has amaximum of forty-seven hours, with some only forty-four,though the laborers often get week-end work at time and ahalf which puts their earnings well beyond five third week all are required to take a double turn of. BY THE SMELTERS OF SOUTH WALES 29 sixteen hours in order to allow their shift to come eachweek at a different period of the twenty-four. Both these gentlemen seem to feel well pleased with theway the Hon workers put their backs to their jobsin the shorter day. First hands in some places wherethings are working right are getting their twenty to thirtypounds every week. But the day or time workers aremaking them very unhappy by their easy-going methodsever since the war. Why, theyre putting up plants to-day covering twice the space but designed for the same out-put—^just because these chaps cant be made to work ex-cept by a tonnage rate—and how can you do that withthe general laborers? Over in the river were numerous boats unloading car-goes of 1,700 tons or thereabouts of ore from BUbao, Spain,or from South African fields. Four men (in place of a usualsix) were doing a wondrous fine job of shovelling the heavystuff into a s
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