Tribute should be paid where tribute seems to be justly
due. I
heard this week of a striking impetus to coal-production. The manager of one of our larger mines happened—I don't know how or why—to see a performance of the Moral Rearmament movement's play "The Forgotten Factor," at the Westminster Theatre. He was so deeply impressed that when he got back he called together a group of his sub-managers to consider the situation as he had come to see it. Interest in the affair percolated down, and some 300 men from the pit went up to see the play—at their own expense ; the fare was over 30s.—returning late, just in time to go straight on to night- shift. The result, I am assured, is that the pit regularly tops produc- tion for its region. Let me add that the story comes to me from no Moral Rearmament quarter, but from ,someone who knows the pits and pitmen of that area particularly well. The search for incentives has been intensive, and marked by some singularly poor psychology. I pass on what I have heard as a contribution to the study. If what is manifestly the right motive proves to be the effective motive, it is of good omen for us all.
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