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The proportion of Europeans to Indians works out to-day approximately as 1 to 230, but this figure is in itself somewhat misleading. Out of the total of 197 Europeans, no fewer than seventy-five are the highly skilled mechanics who are still absolutely indispensable as supervisors at the steel-smelting furnaces and the rolling-mills.
The adoption in all industrial countries of the 'English week', with its half-holiday so much coveted by the continental worker the establishment of a uniform working day the gradual introduction of the eight-hours shift into such 'continuous industries' as steel-smelting and glass-blowing an international agreement to eliminate the use of lead from many branches of the pottery industry and to limit and safeguard its use in all others, these were only some among the questions which study and investigation and discussion had brought to a stage at which the Association could look upon them as fit matter for potential international conventions in August 1914.
The up-country races, physically more promising, lack the training. It will take, it is believed, twenty-five years to bring on Indians who can be trusted to replace Europeans in these arduous jobs. Nevertheless, in the steel-smelting furnaces there are only forty European supervisors to 2000 Indian workmen, and in the rolling-mills only thirty-five to 2200.
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