MARCH 21, 1939
Ir. And Mrs. Citizen
NDS A MINUTE FOR
of the Ecko works at Southend on Sea'staking part in uding fire engine practice and decontamination.
n existing in
is is what he
aled, in stark
Airplanes mas- in service eiencies of the pment, serious
Red personnel
A.R.P. Steel shelters costing
£20,-
000,000 are now being made and issued, but will prove a useless pro- tection against high - explosive bombs.
In a few months' time, it is ex- pected Government will wake up to the need for deep bomb-proof shel- ters. The A.R.P. Department may even take note of the excellent un- derground shelters planned by the Labour-controlled Finsbury Borough Council.
More money will then be needed to build these shelters. Orders for cement will be given, and you will pay. And unless something is done to break the Cement Monopoly which control Britain's supplies you will pay through the nose.
A few days ago Mr. A. V. Alexan- der, M.P., revealed in the House of Commons the astonishing fact that the Government has on two OC- casions suppressed reports from one of its own Departmental Committees which showed how the Cement Com- bine is profiteering. Speaking as a member of the Departmental Com- mittee on the prices of building materials, Mr, Alexander said:
"I have signed two reports on cement, but they have not seen the light of day. I signed one report nearly two years ago, and the Minister of Health, rather than publish it . adopted the extraordinary procedure of first showing a report condemning the margin of profit to the people who were making the profit... CEMENT RING ACTS "He then made a deal; he sug- also made profits greatly in excess gested that there should be some of their normal earnings. Fairey slight reduction in price, and Aviation Company, for instance, claimed that, to be a virtue. An- made a profit of £395,125 in 1938, other increase in price was made compared with £47,534 in 1934. And
over twelve months ago.”: their figures for 1939 will be very
and paid 25 per cent. Rolls
Royce
made £263,300. Other companies on the Air Ministry's “Approved List”,
ve jeopardised much higher. r. There em-
picture of an mentally de-
erious charges, uthority of an hate knowledge
therefore, that Its should come of £550,000,- ree in twenty lusion that one h of this money
n aircraft pro- eded up and given to the Ring," the pro- ate companies rds.
ade a profit of
paid 421⁄2 per ders. Bristol made £345,000
SUPPRESSED REPORTS
Recently it was rumoured that a new firm was going to start a new cement manufacturing. plant to break the prices fixed by the all- Powerful Cement Manufacturers Association. That move was soon
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It should remembered, too, that in some cases the Air Ministry is buil- ding and paying for the factories which are making these huge profits. killed. Orders for cement for your Other firms now extending their fac-
The Vauxhall 10 Saloon does over tories will be compensated for the protection will have to be paid for cost of the extensions when the art at the price demanded by an anti-40 m.p.g. On a recent R.A.C. Official trial, over 1,000 miles of public roads, social monopoly.
the 10 h.p. Saloon, did 434 mpg. maments programme ends.
During the past year the Stock
And it has Independent Springing, After spending enormous sums of
Exchange valuation of £1 Associated
Hydraulic Brakes, Controlled Syn- money to make the Army, the Navy Portland Cement shares has fluct-chromesh and many other fine car and the Air Force inefficient, the
uated between 65s, and 888. Heaven features. Government has now been compelled knows to what levels these shares to turn its attention to civilian de- will soar if the Government under- fence, and so far has dealt with takes the job of building under- A.R.P. in the same incompetent ground shelters on a big scale.
But that is how your money is
manner.
In the crisis last year admissions, being spent. To bolster up an in- similar to those about anti-aircraft competent administration of defence, equipment and the Air Force, were to provide vested interests with made about the deficiences of A.R.P. handsome profits, to perpetuate de-
The Government now proposes to lays, failures and general muddle in spend £57,000,000 on A.R.P. food this business of protecting your storage and other civilian services. lives and your property against Most of this sum will be used for potential enemy.
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