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Has Bottom Been Touched?
The four-years external schol It may be worth recording: arships at London University (writes a special correspondent o cheerfcines. which the Daily Mail is offering the Times) that
which students
in
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bo
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The question which is troubling the pubiin, mind at this moment is how to escape from continued in dustrial and economic perplexity in connection with the: Exhibition, among business men is most Prices are falling, manufacturers' are to be of the, total value of marked in thoso districts which Just snap your fingers at care-Darling Foxtrot
profits are disappearing, and, on £250 each, and to be open to first felt the effects of trade the other hand, there is a steady British-born students of 18 years depression and. now have the Paul Whitman & His Orch' resistance on the part of the or over who are engaged in, or largest percentages of unemploy- working classes to any corres-about to enter, whole-time em-ment. They believe that they Caresses-Medley Fox Trot Paul Whitman & His Orch' pending drop in wages which ployment.
have touched bottom. would bring down the cost of pro- Dr. Sydney Russell Wells, Vice- In Sheffield, where conditions: duction to the old tovel, states Chaucellor of the University, are not very bad, but where it ie Tip Top--Medley Fox Trot Saxophones
Six Brown Brothers Lord Haldane.
writes in a letter to the Daily still uncertain whether the bad may not be moving towards the The question is one which re- Muit acknowledging the offer:- If a wish could make it so--Fox Trot
quires definition. It is clear that "Oo bebalf of the University, I worse, some of the manufacturers Six Brown Brothers if articles cannot be produced at desire to tender my very sincere who are feeling the loss of orders profit without some diminution thanks to the Daily Muil for this are inclined at the moment to enterprise. Scholar-steep themselves in pessimism. in wages, they will not be produc-gonerous Smith's Orchestra
ed at all, and it will probably bo ships
held The phase is not likely to last. found that wherever this forecast by
Many firms, in spite of a dis- Smith's Orchestras established the working classes aged whole-time ocenpa-couraging outlook, refuse to take will be ready to meet it by some tion are unfortunately very few a gloomy view of the situation, abatement of demand on their in number, and very much and it in interesting to learn that part. Indeed, they cannot help smaller in amount than those several of the most prominent themselves.
offered by the Daily Mail, and I men in the steel industry, findingi This necessity, however, is sub-am convinced that these four that business is not coming to ject to the principle that if it scholarships will be of very great them, have gone to the Continent Blue & White Marimba Band should be shown that there are value to the students who are to find the work which, they believe, is waiting to be claimed. articles which cannot be produc-fortunate enough to win them."
Here, as elsewhere, there are ed in this country except by The successful candidates will All Star Trio sweating, it is bettter that they study for the degrees of Bachelor manufacturers who realise that should not be produced here, but of Commerce. The qualifying Pessimism does not pay, and the should be imported, the price examination for the scholarships view may rapidly find increasing suppors, Sheffield at present has All Star Trio being paid by the export of will be the Matriculation
articles which can be produced amination of the University, to be labour Lord Mayor, a Trade
LANE, CRAWFORD & Unionist of long experience who: held next June, and the solar has won respect in public life. without sweating.
Undoubtedly the standard of ships will be awarded to those wages has risen, and has probably candidates who are placed high-His opinions are his own, but st, and who satisfy the Daily then, and they are curiously many people will agree with risen permanently. This may not imply that in particular in. Mail that they will continue in akin to some I have heard ex-i stances wages will not be affected business during the four years pressed by employers in York- by the necessity of finding study for the degree of com-
inrkets, but it does mean, not only in this country, but all over the world, that as a result of in-
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merce.
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While commercial optimism may be regarded as a virtue fo- day, considered attention raust to the opinions of tion, the accessibility of libraries, e given the re-distribution of political manufacturers who believe that ower, the extension of local trade recovery in not yet in sight. government all these influences. There can be no doubt that in and others which have begun in the light trades of Sheffield slump A certain The details of any process of operate, have tended towards conditions prevail. adjustment are incapable of being equalisation. No doubt the quantity of electro-plated goods. worked out on abstract principles, process has only got a little way, is still being delivered for ship and must be governed to a large hot who is there who is in and hotel use, and shipments to extent by the circumstances of contact with democracy who Canada and South America are particular instances. The broad thinks it is likely to stop?
being made against old contracts,
order to maintain
better B
moro
in hand.
fact is there that a different social Now, although all this brings but there is an ominous lack of order is slowly coming info about its hardships, it brings new orders, and some manufac existence, in which the working about greater advantages. What urors have now very little work classes require more money in country is more conservative or Without exception, so far as I
free from the spirit of standard of life; and it is not Bolshevism than oure in the have talked with them, they sub- TOOLFOOTHOCHGOPHOCHHO¥¥&@XYV©XX©GH«klikely, particularly with our ex-attitude of its democracy? Goit that improvement is out of rended franchise, that they will a lahour meeting to-day, and the question until the cost of
can production go back upon this as their general four-fifths of the audience sit Prices based on presont costs reduced. principle.
there, and listen and rise to have beon reduced to the The new order of things is speak, in no attitude of violence, lowest possible level, but this apparent in a multitude of forms, but in the spirit of those who Not long ago I visited one of the begin to see their way towards not sufficient to attract buyers, new county schools, where I was steady progress upwards, and and sooner or later labour costs struck with the appearance of the only desire to make a consistent will have to be brought down if pupile. It was a boys' school. effort to maintain it.
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from: the Socialist programme. It has not said to me. appearance of the locality boon without its influence in as-
no real prosperity in industry." --that the boys, in the
sisting the maintenance of the A director of another leating main, wore not the sons of such Coalition Governmon', but what firm said that the Labour people people at all, but were the boys throws open is a vast field for must consider lower wagee. If of working man who had decided, mental training which, if wide they refused, then there would with the better wages which had and sympathetic enough, will do be no wages to be earned, and onabled them to afford to do so, more to break down class
eventually they would have to to give their children an educa- differences than any abstract
accept employment on terms tion superior to that which they legislative programine which can which would enable production | had received themselves. That be devised or put on the Statute to be resumed.
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The path of those who wish to THE U.S. STEEL INDUSTRY. Ture where you will among promote thisstablisation of society the democracy and you find a in this country seems to be a clear It is not by reverting to low rise in the standards of social lite one.
Labour Conditions. which points to an approximation wages that stability will be main- from below to the advantages tained, or that the people will be
Charges that Mr. Williami Z. hitherto enjoyed by those above. ed into the true path-that of If on the other hand you study developing their own souls. The Foster, secretary of the steel your surroundings in an old Church seems to be realising this, workers' strike committee in 1919 fashioned region where the coun-hot only in this country, but in prepared the report on labour conditions in the steel industry try gentlemen have, until recent. the United States.
promulgated by the commis- ly, been comparatively rich, and The watchword of to-day ision of the Interchurch World have exercised a dominating inequality. You cannot develop Movement which investigated the fuence, you again find this the soul unless you develop the strike were denied before the change.
body at the same time, and you Senate Education and Labour One great house has become a cannot improve the conditions of Committee by Bishop Francis S school, another a hospital, a third the body excepting through an McConnell of Pittsburgh, chair. men of the Interchurch Com- has been sold to a profiteer. a improved mind, using that word fourth has been let to some other in its most comprehensive sense-mission. of the new-rich lass. Certain Here is a programme on which "Mr. Foster had absolutely of the old order of aris-nublic spirited people in the most nothing to do with the report. He tocracy have disappeared, bur diverse principlos may find them-Aid not write a line of it," said there remain-and I think it is selves capable of coming into Bishop McConnell, discussing e greatly to their credit-a class agreement. We do not realise resolution before the committe- which is trying to live on while how the extension of franchise for printing the commission's re- it can, though on a great following on the war is transform-port as a public document. reduced scalo, in its old houses.jing our political programmes, but John Fitzpatrick, chairman of parts of them, and which strives what is most satisfactory is the the Steel Strike Committee, and at the saran time to do its duty discovery that while the old poli- Mr. Foster, Bishop McConnell to the public by rendering social tical parties are becoming quite said, wore merely witnesses service in the old fashion.
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