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...HUGH CLEGG...
...Cuthbert Clegg, who strives to keep his cotton mill modern, is a rarity among millowners in the "Black Country." Many a third-or fourth-generation industrial family is as encrusted with habit and stifling tradition as their mill towns, nestling like ugly blackheads on the face of one of England's greenest regions, are encrusted with soot and smoke...
...half of the working party (including Cuthbert Clegg, two other owners' representatives, the three public representatives) opposed the key recommendations of the report: 1) a three-year levy on each spindle for a fund which the Government would use to help equip plants with new machines; 2) grouping of small mills into larger, more economical units; 3) shutdown of plants now having idle machines (because of labor shortage), to permit more intensive use of their labor force in modern plants...
...Cuthbert Clegg and his fellow dissenters vainly insisted that the profit motive would be incentive enough for millowners to switch to modern methods. "There is little incentive," they said, "to be found either in monopolistic capitalism or in free enterprise fussily fettered by the state...