460 proceedings of section g. 



First Great Category. 



Economic Agents and Atixiliary Forces Employed in the Creation 

 or Production of Human Wants in Exchange. 



(a) Current Labour Service Division. 



(1) Of highly skilled minds in planning, organizing, and deter- 

 mining the modes in which labour may be most productively effec- 

 tive. Labour thus guided may be the means of adding (by the in- 

 troduction of steam and other auxiliary forces) twelve to thirteen 

 times the physical energy of the maximum physical powers of the 

 whole of human labour. Types : The inventors of steam-engine, 

 spinning jenny, electric traction, sewing machine, experts in civil, 

 mechanical, and electrical engineering, organizers and skilled cap- 

 tains of industries, professional skill of doctors, lawyers, teachers, 

 &c. 



In a tabular illustration shown elsewhere, relating to Tas- 

 manian experience in the year 1911, I have made a roughly ap- 

 proximate estimate, exhibiting, in a concrete form, the great im- 

 portance of this division of labcui- services in the creation of the 

 annual supply of man's wants and satisfactions. 



In the tabular illustration referred to, it is shown that although 

 only representing about 8.86 per cent, of the human services en- 

 gaged in production, this group, together with the use of labour- 

 saving auxiliary instruments of transport and manufacture (the 

 greater part of which is the property of this group) contribute over 

 92 per cent, of the present physical energy necessary to be ex- 

 pended in the general processes in the production of consumable 

 wealth. The physical energy of all bread-winners (82,441) in 

 Tasmania, represent a force of about 6,870 horse-power, or only 

 about 7.06 per cent, of the total physical force required, in Tas- 

 mania, in the work of producing the necessary supply of consum- 

 able wealth, yearly. It is also of importance to note that, although 

 these powerful mechanical auxiliaries contribute over 92 per cent, 

 of the physical energy required in the work of production, they 

 only absorb a little over 17 per cent, of the year's productive 

 value. On the other hand about 91 per cent, of the bread- 

 winners (75,132), contributing little towards the creation of these 

 faxed auxiliaries, only exert, at most, about 6.43 per cent, of the 

 total physical force utilized. It is evident, therefore, that it is the 

 skill of the worker, not his exertion of mere muscular strength, 

 which has enabled this latter group to present a claim of a little 

 over 60 per cent, of the annual wealth produced in Tasmania in 

 the year 1911, and representing a total value of £5,273,829. This 

 amount is assigned to and appropriated by them as a reward for 

 their skill and energy exerted in the year's production of consum- 

 able wealth. 



(2) Skilled Labour. — Types: Engineer, blacksmith, carpenter, 

 mason, bricklayer, baker, tailor, &c. In Tasmnnia this sub-group 



