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226 RATIONAUZATION IN INDIAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE,
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labour-saving'devices, the installation ~f uptodate tools and,
implements as well as, the unification. or centraliz~tion of.
function~, all those f~ct9~~ which involve aS,usual the discharge
of hands. As il) the case of the textile industry,
this .techn~logical r~ti~nalization in ,railw~ys:also has bee~
greetedwith'strikes, fOJ: instance, on the South Indian
Rail~ay d~ring 1928." Another instance that rationalization
. has b~~n br~ught home, tothe m~sses .as ~hard fact;
of. ~contemporarY i~du;trialiife in l~i,a., .The employ~~
xpent .of improv~d method~ and efficii:;nt .~achineries, th7'
suppression of smaller. ~mq more ,expensive factories and;
in:their pla~e th~ est&blishment of ,giant'central \,Vorkshops;
w.ith facilities for mass, repairs and mass production,-")
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s,u'Ch features of post-\:Var industrial ,organization ,as, ~
c:haracterize the over l~aulin.gs" for in.s,lance, in the F rank- :
furter Maschinenfabrik or the Motorenfabrik Koeln-Deutz
in Germany, are ",getting,. well-known o.r rather well:-:
estal?lisbecl in the Indian economy of to-day. :
The strike test of rationalization has.,been re.:ently,
satisfied by anothe~ great industry of India. Th,is'is nq-,
other than the T ata Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. ofl amshed- )
pur, which, be it noted, is 100 per cent Indian in
direc~orate, as ,well as· inspiration and, ambition. ,And }RJ
thIs connection it is relevant to remember that, it ,was, on l
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t~e.high crest of the Swadesbi Move5Uent, that the works;
"Y~s launched almost as; a patriotiG n~t,i.nal enterprise"'1
T.~e.resp'opse to th~ prosp~ctus~ss~ed on.!~.\lg~st 27 .. 19Q7(j
may be recalled in the following words ~f a lecture delivered
'before the Staffordshire lion and Steel Institute (1912) :
"From ~arIy morning till late at night," says the'i~cturerr
•• the T ata offices in Bombay w~re i?esieged by;~q, eager.
c~owd of native inve~~o~s. , Ol~ c;lncl.y~u~g'"r~handp~r~