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236 RAT~ALIZATION IN INDIAN BUS~5 ENl"EaP~LSE
In the ordinary routine part of. the 'Mlrk 'it will IMlt be
~e'tY many years' before we achieve. pmcbcally ~amplete­
Wiamization. and one of these days the world may come
to India for men just as we now go to Germany.' '13
That ,. Indianizati.on •• as an item of fir..andal
economy combined with the maintenance of eflicienc:y is.
a genuine factor in rationalization was apparent during
.the first five or six years of th works. An English
mechanical engineer in the service of the company deliver:
ed a lecture on the T ata Works before the Royal Society
of Arts, London, in 1918, while the Great War was still
going on. In the Journal of the Society, published on
February 1 of the same year his lecture says in part about
the quality of Indian labour as well as the reduction of
European staff as follows:' ,, To-day in the bar mill three
8-hour shifts, which would require the employment, of
27 Europeans, are man.ned by a crew of 2S Indians who.
run the plant economically with only two European
$uperintendents, and in the Diher departments similar
reducti.ons have been made. The chemical laboratory
priginally employed five European chemists. Now the
chief arid assistant are Europeans. the remainder of the,
of twenty one being In.dians. * * * In very many
~taff
instances Indian workmen have shown themseIv~
possessed of extraordina~ ,skill and manual dexterity,
and the electrical department is under the superinten:­
dence of an Indian gentleman, a graduate of an English
l1niversity, assisted by a staff of Indian wiremen and
dectricians. "14
13 ChlJriman'. ·Sp~e"', (Tata), 1926; ;,4nnllal RepOl't· (Tata), 1928-29. :
!4 Tuckwell.~uprlJ, ,p. 227.