SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
__A sickness and benefit fund is inaugurated, to which both the men 
and the company subscribe regularly, and which is controlled and dis- 
tributed by the employees’ representatives, so that if any man 1s sick 
he receives up to £2 per week whilst away from work. 
A co-operative council is formed, consisting of 50 per cent. of 
employees’ representatives and 50 per cent. of the company’s repre- 
sentatives, and this council is advanced money by the employer to 
inaugurate and operate reasonable schemes for the general benefit of 
all the employees. Co-operative stores are run by this. council, and 
supply the main essentials of life, the amount saved being given back 
in the cheaper price of all the articles, not accumulated for subsequent 
bonus payments. It also inaugurates and carries out special branches 
of developmental work, such as the erection of children’s playgrounds, 
all labour being voluntary. One striking example is the recent erection 
of the 10-acre children’s playground at Port Pirie, at which over 2,000 
men assisted, many of them giving over 100 hours of voluntary work 
without any remuneration. 
In addition, holiday camps are formed for employees by the council, 
and the cost of taking a holiday with families is thereby reduced to a 
minimum; in some cases a bonus of fourteen days on full pay is 
granted for steady attendance to duty throughout the year. In short, 
every effort is made to make the job a good one to work in, and every 
one connected with it proud to be there. 
Tt is essential in some way or other to get every one in this country 
to realize that the only possible way to successfully meet the future 1s 
to insure that the will to do good work spreads throughout the com- 
munity. 
Education on these lines of thought and action is more than neces- 
sary for us all. From the highest to the lowest we need to fight our 
‘old _pre-conceived ideas and train ourselves by constant thought to 
realize that a complete change in attitude of mind is necessary if reason- 
able success and happiness are to attend our country in the future. 
This, often enough entertained and consistently developed, will lead 
us to actions of the right kind, and will enable us to act in all positions 
and under all varying circumstances in complete conformity with the 
best lines of thought. 
In my own small way I have endeavoured to-think on the lines 
set out in this paper, developing from discussions and reading for a 
number of years past, and I am conyinced that one of the most urgent 
needs (provided that the principles set out herein are sound) is for 
education throughout the whole community and for the development of 
thought on these lines. 
In this connexion. it is more than essential that the leaders of industry, 
in whatever branch, should not overlook that it is essential to pay very 
considerable attention to all their staff, to see that they fully appreciate 
and understand the ideas and intentions and hopes of their directors 
and leaders, so that the attitude of mind and actions shall be carried 
on through the various stages of the organizations, and that the whole 
operations and relations between capital and management and employees 
shall be conducted with that sympathy and understanding without 
which any actions and advances are foredoomed to failure. 
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