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 694 IICONOMI OONFEBENOE are (as a rule) less vigorous, and have less staying power than people in other countries, especially where the climate is not so trying; and it is not surprising to find that an average Indian workman does as a manual worker in oher work iu which mental faculties not turn out as countries. But and deftness of much work as regards touch play a greater part, Indians, when properly trained, are cspeble of putting in as good (if not better) work than other people. He gave as an instance the results o experience st the Tara Iron and Steel Works where Indian labor, trained at the Works, had replaced American labor in certain cases (as in the rolling mills), and had proved more efficient in output. DR. HAROLD MASS replied briefly. He said it was obvious that the economic stimulus to labor was not suffi- cient in India to keep the people steadily at work and make them anxious to improve themselves. We ought to make it our business to find out by experiments and by studying the people what is the proper stimulus to work in India to which the people would reset. Hs thought himself justified in saying that there must be some stimulus more effective than the economic one of msney wages; and without doubt it could be found if the problem wars seriously sudisd. No problem was of greatmr practical importance at the prss.ent rims than this of increasing the efficiency of the methods of work in India, on the one hand, and dispelling the lethargy and easy contentment of the illiterate cqassss, on the other hand. MONDAY DECEMBER 80th, 1918. Afiernom 8ession. DISCUS81ON of Z,no o Co.operti've Progress (see p. 489). Mh. MANILAL. operative societies carrying on their PROFESSOR J. C. COYAJEE'8 Baroda) confine excesses of were dangers B. NaNaVATX (of should srietly paper--So business in the villages. political representation was undesirable. Da. GXLBEaT SLATER (Of Madras) said that, as regards Professors Coyajee's suggestion that by the origanizafion of co-operative societies amongst industrial workers many of the functions of trade unions would be served without the the latter movemenL he admitted that there connected with the spread of trade unionism, said that co. themselves o Any kind of