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It is very desirable that the workmen should be brought to 

 consider the unwisdom of their conservative policy. The 

 command of the markets of the world must eventually fall to 

 the best work, which will be turned out by the best workmen. 

 Increased numbers of skilled workmen will increase superior 

 production and drive out inferior articles : moreover skill will be 

 constantly increasing by competition for higher wages and the 

 command of markets. It is a matter of notoriety that our 

 colonies and greater Britain generally are calling for skilled 

 workmen, and a really good English workman may find ready 

 employment in continental Europe. There is no danger of 

 trades being overmanned. Limiting production and keeping 

 skill down to a low average mean a loss of the world's markets 

 in the not very distant future. 



Again, there is indefensible opposition to the introduction of 

 labour saving machinery. It is well known that the manufacture 

 and up-keep of such machines directly and indirectly employ 

 more men than they displace, whilst they lead to extension of 

 enterprise and render the employers more independent of the 

 supply of unskilled labour. If the working man had only a 

 Kingsley to listen to instead of a salaried demagogue we should 

 see him anxious to place the best work that skill and industry 

 could produce in the market, and realizing that commerce, as 

 well as arms, has its triumphs. Instead of this we have the 

 policy of a troglodyte — to limit production, to keep skill and 

 good work down to the lowest possible point, and to brutally 

 prevent any man acting independently, ever striving to prove 

 his doctrine orthodox 



" By (un) Apostolic blows and knocks." 



A deputation from the Technical Instruction Committee 

 of the City of Manchester visited the Technical Schools, 

 Institutions, and Museums of Germany and Austria in July and 

 August of the present year, and has lost no time in issuing a 

 most interesting report. A great part is taken up by describing 

 the liberal scale upon which these institutions are fitted up and 

 staffed with instructors ; but I propose only to touch upon a 

 few points which seem to bear more especially upon our present 



