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 LABOR SUPPLY 677 no always sufficiently alive to the need for adopting certain necessary precautions in order to retain laborers after recruitment (iii) employers have not a separate permanent Organization to constantly supply and control labor and (iv) the laborers as a class are ignorant ot the advantages that they would derive from accepting service in the larger commercial centres of India. Broadly speaking it also appears that the demand of skilled and unskilled laborers is greater in proportion to hei snpply. It we examine the matter from the supply point of view taking into consideration all he factors wh;ch affect the mobility of labor, we would find that India contains a very large snpply oi untrained bnt trainable labor from which to recruit for the ranks of the semi-skilled workmen who ar. employed in considerable number by mills, (actories and collieries. Admitting that educational and social reto-m is required to improve the supply of skilled men, many hold rightly that even at present in the absence of these reforms, the supply can be bettered, ii recruiting and management ot labor are gone about in an organized way. As regards the other complaint from enployers abont he ineciencyof labor accompanied by a rise of wages, Sir Thomas Holland speaking at Madras observed:" that in India we hare means of obtaining all the expert labor that is necessary." The Tara Iron and Steel Works' laborers at Sakcti who only a few years ago were in the jungles of the Sandals.. without any education; are handling now red ho steel bars, urning out rails, wheels, angles of iron as efficiently as can be done by any English laborer.. The whole question is largely of the methods adopted for training people. If labor is properly organized, and educated, we can get results ha will suit all raw materials.