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CAPITAL AND LABOUR.
What Mr. Clynes Says.
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NATURAL IMPATIENCE. It was not surprising that at one time it seemed that other and almost reckless counsels would prevail.
Impatience was natural be- cause of the privations being
FRIDAY, JUNE 11 1921.
National support to that pro- grama depends upon how La bour wakes it appeal to the, nation.
out any reasonable continuity of; policy. Business, in fact, became a gamble, in which the rewards went to the lucky far more aftan than to the stilful,
seem to
QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS.
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CONSIGNEES
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In the House of Commons
THE ADMIRAL LINE Robert Sanders, replying The Steamship Capt. Redmond, asid the
COST OF THE ARMY LIST. Sir R. Sanders informed Sir Harry Brittain that the cost of
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All broken, chafed and damag cargo is to be left in the Godow WINDOW SCRATCHING.
where it will be examined at: Curzon, said uumerous cases of Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard a Mr. Short answering Viscoartam. on 24th inst, by the C window-scratching had occurred Douglas.
the Metropolitan District, but the police could not within thirty days of the steamer Police All claims must be present estimate the number. In many arrival hers, after which the cases reported to them the damage cannot be recognized. No alas was not of recent origin, in two will be recognized after the goo cases charges had been dismissed, have left the Godowns, and car The police preferred not to express inst. will be subject to rent. and a third case was pending. [andelivered on and after any opinion as to the cause of the
HUMAN NEEDS AND WAQES. In respect to distress and trada If wages are to be varied, the
While the total volume of trade froubles Labour never faced May standard of living must not be was more satisfactory than might Day under warsa conditions. But ignored, nor should sweeping re-have been expected, it would Sir suffering and hardshipe due to ductious be imposed regardless have been still more satisfactory to lack of work may be reduced if of the buman needs of various if we had been able to avoid the title of the Royal Irish Rifles we use wisely the great lesson | grades of workmen.
troubles of strikes, stoppages.was changed to the Royal Ulster bating arrived from Portle which Labour has learned from During the war the right of and labour diapatos.
Rifles so that the regimant might Ore. via ports, on 17th the events which have happened lower-paid men for even better Look at the record of lost time be associated with Ulatar as consignees are hereby noti in the twelve months since May advances than the higher-paid in 1919 and 1920. In these two the Munster Fusiliers and the that their cargo is being landed, of 1920, writes Mr. J. R. Cignes, was admitted on the ground that years no fewer than sixty-one Connaught Rangers ware with their risk into the Godowns M.P., Chairman of the Labour the standard of living justified it. million days were wasted in other provinces. The officers 16 & 17 Kennedy Town Pr
The Hon Shan Godown ( Party-
The right should be still kept in voluntary abstinence from work. of the regiment had been con- During that perial constitu-mind, and lower-paid men should Sixty-one million days at a time Bulted"
Hongkong, and stored af tional action and disciplined suffer less than others where re- when the world is crying out for
signee's risk. movement on the part of Labour ductions have to take place. work and the product of work!:
duce an Import permit signed Consignees of cargo must have been trumphantly asserted, No reduction should come ex-And even that figure, big as it is.
the Superintendent of Ingo and they have been proved by cept by agreement and as the takes no account of the additional producing the Monthly Army List and Experts, Hongkong, bort experience to be the only effective result of discussion and mutual loss involved in allied trades was £30.000, and of the quarterly Bills of Lading will be count and beneficent lines of action consent after joint meetings of through the inevitable dislocation.
£11,000. Advertisements | sigued. which organised Labour can employers and Trade Unions, or It is difficult to make the were now being included to leason |follow.
as the result of decisions of courts workers of the country see that the cost. (Laughter.) of arbitration to which the two they are by far the largest losers parties have agreed to refer their in this game of cross-purposes. case.
I place most of the blame on the It would be a monstrous thing agitator, who has been doing his for employers to insist on waga best to bring about the disloca reductions without also agreeing tion of industry during the last to some reduction in the cost of few years, for it seems impossible endured by those who were in
management, in dividends and on any other basis to understand distress. Suspicians had baon
profits, and in those heavy the policy of the men who helped deepened because measures based charges which trade and com- to win the war in the trenches, upon the unredeemed promises of merce often carry because of big and who now would public men had failed. The bit-salaries to the men at the top have set their mind on losing the terness of after-war disappoint and the exactions of landowners industrial supremacy on which ments and disregard of orderly and men who levy rest.
our country depends. practices which the war did much to establish strengthened the ap peal for revolutionary or militant measures which seemed to pro-limit. mise some speedy release from industrial and economic troubles. The weapon of the strike was worshipped as all powerful, and Labour was called upon to place its faith only in such measures of force as on occasion it had successfully employed against
Conditions in individual employers in relation to wage and workshop questions. markets of the world regarding Labour has not yet completely prices, finance, and credits have emerged from some measure of much to do with waemployment, trust in methods which have at Unless these aspects are dealt tractions for a few, and steps with by our statesmen further which have the appearance of trade dislocation is certain, and being heroic or dramatic are supunemployment is inevitable. ported for their novelty, in the
What we must now insist upon is that reductions in wages mere- valuable than the older practices ly will not settle the unemploy which have not yet destroyed ment problem or provide a cure ancient systems or led the masses
for our troubles in the realm of of the people to the promised land. credit and finance.
Employers have no right to THE STRIKE WEAPON-ITS
insist on reduced wages because VALUE AND DANGERS. It is no heartless disregard of employment affords them the the reality of the suffering endur-pportunity of taking workmen ed by sections of the workers at a disadvantage. Changes forced as a result of workmen which prompts me to press for a
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A WARNING TO THE OTHER SIDE. Unemployment is not now one question. Is has
throwa another-wages.
Wage and unemployment are Dow linked together and the state of trade depression has inspired many employers to try to enforce re- ductions.
discontent than before.
What Sir Robert Hadfield Says.
the
AN APPEAL TO REASON, I would appeal to the trade unions and to the men them selves to try rather to make it as Pasy as possible for the manage ment to carry on in these times of unexampled perplexity. I only the unions would leave in- dividual employers to settle their labour arrangements themselves with their employees it would without doubt be possible to and
• basis which would be satis.
factory to both. If something of the kind is not decided upon soon, Labour, I am afraid, will kill | the goose that lays the golden eggs and produces their wages each week.
outrage.
Commander Kenworthy-Is there any reason to associate it
with Sinn Fein!
Mr. Shortt referred him to his reply.
NO ENVOY SENT TO IRELAND. Mr Chamberlain, replying to Major Kelly, said the Premier was not dispatching any envoy to Ireland for the purpose of negotiation with Sinn Fein. The Government bad not, he informed Mc Hogge, sent a message by anybody or authorised anybody to open negotiations on their behalf.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE ADMIRAL LINE. The Steamship
"ELDRIDGE
PROCLAIM THE DESERAL.
STRIKE." Replying to a question in the The world to-day is literally name of Sir, Wm. Joyason-Hicks, short of goods of all kinds. Mr. Parker said that the question having arrived from Seattle, Wash Labour admits that, and asserts of proceedings would be consider-vis ports, on 17th inst. Consignee that it is not against increased led in respect of a leaflet entitled. are hereby notified that their car production if it is assured that "Proclaim the General Strike,"go is being landed at their ris the workers will share in the alleged to be published by the into the Godowns of The Ho benefits of such production. National Workers' Committee Shan Godown 'Co., 16 & 17 Ker
Of course, they will share in and stating that the victory of the nedy Town, Praya. Hongkon them. If only the workers of working classes could only be and stored at Consigness" risk Great Britain would come for-assured by revolutionary means, Consignees of cargo must pro ward and assist the employers in £4,000 TO THE LATE SPEAKER duce an Import Permit signed b running their works on reason. Mr.Chamberlain, in the absence the Superintendent of Imports & able lines. we in this country of the Prime Minister, moved an Exports, Hongkong, before Bill complete return to the disciplined by for want of work would quietis show the world annual retiring payment of £4,000 of Lading will be countersigned
will make an embittered situa- what we are capable of doing. If.to Mr. J. W. Lowther, the late political and Parliamentary me- tion and produce within our in- for example, trade unions could Speaker,
All broken. chafed and dam thods by which the future re-
aged cargo is to be left in the demption of Labour in this and dustries even a greater degree of but see their way to make reason-
Mr. J. Jones. proposed an
godowns, where it will be ax other lands must be secured.
able concessions on the question amendment that the sum shouldamined at 10a.m. on 24th inac It is not a question of setting
of overtime, which is the lifebe £1000. While not wishing to by the Company's Surveyors aside the strike weapon. That
blood of industry, it would rapid- belittle the magnificent services Messrs. Goddard and Douglas - ily lewd to a lowering of prices of Mr. Lowther, he urged that weapon must never be given up. In all my long business ex-
All claims must be presented Before i could be used, theperience I have never known though latent at the presen: time, work, and this was not the time arrival bere after which they can and stimulate the demand, which. millions of people were out of within thirty days of the steamer's state of the working classes was anything like the general depresis nevertheless there. one of unmitigated drudgery and sion of trade which prevails at
to give to those who were well-not be recognized. elavery. The discreet use of the the present time. The difficulties we should once more be in from the public exchequer.
Given that reduction in prices, circumstanced generous grants No Claims will be recognized weapon has often ensured of carrying on the large industrial position to export "our goods
after the goods have left the Go degree of liberty and workshop operations included under the which the world so badly wants, and said that although the motion and after 24th inst. will be Colonel Wedgewood seconded. downs, and cargo undelivered on improvement. which no amount term "business" are almost in but which it cannot buy because was in accordance with precedent subject to rent. of persistent appeal to the em-superable. Particularly does this of the unreasonable demands of there was far more need for ployers sense of justice could refer to those firms which do not Labour. Then, and then only, will economy to-day ever secure.
control the sources of supplies depression vanish from our midst. previous Speakers retired. The. The matter before us now, how-They are between the devil and
circumstances of the world broke ever, is not that of never using the deep sea. the strike weapon; it is the ques- On the one hand raw materials FIEUZAL GLASSES.
all precedent.
Mr. Chamberlain said it would tion of abusing it or employing it such things us pig iron, coal, Out of doors there is nothing so at the wrong time or in the pur- and so on-base doubled, trebled, restful and comfortable for the be distasteful to the House to suit of some purpose which can and even quadrupled their prices. eyes as the light reflected from quibble over the amount in view be obtained by other methods On the other hand the public green fields and trees the absorweck assuring His Majesty that of the resolution passed last NEW VICEROY'S OPPORTUNITY' would make for the satisfaction without cost.
| have, quite naturally, kicked very tion of the ultra-violet and orange The results of a comparison and contentment of all sections of The end of long struggles for hard. In many cases they have rays by the chlorophyll of the they would be happy to bear any between Sir James Craig's state- people. It seems, therefore, that full political liberty in a country refused altogether to pay reason- leaves; hence the introduction of expense associated with the con- ferment of his Royal favour. Intonist the two leaders have a common governed for generations by ably higher figures so as to com- Fieuzal Glass, yellowish green Northern policy at Bangor and Mr. De object and differ only in their Parliamentary system has been pensate for the increased costs in colour, which is produced in The value to the recipient was Valera's election address to the method of approach to it. Here. reached by placing in the bands brought about by the phenomenal several shades, and lenses made not more than half what it was Irish people ara not wholly perhaps, the new Viceroy will find of the wage-earning classes an advances in raw materials and of this may be worn as a proteca former occasions. It was not discontaging, says the Times his opportunity, for it is every, then to power the counter but wages. By their refusal, volunt- tion by over-sensitive eyes where to underpay servants of the State, Dublin correspondent
to who granted that govern notary or involuntary, they preci- is desirable tone down continues: Sir James Craig ambition is to be a messenger for a class benefit, but for the pitated the depression from which excessive light and glare. Fien- not properly reward those who
had served it. says that he is perfectly ready to and architect of peace in Ireland.higher purposes of national eleva-the country is suffering.
zal lenses of any prescription in meet Mr. De Valera in the Nationalists remain irreconcil-tion and progress. For unemploy
either regolar or Toric forms are Council of Ireland to discuss ably hostile to the Governmentment and wage struggles a cure The year 1970 was one of ex-manufactured by the Hongkong CODFISH DECONTROLLED. national affairs. Mr. De Valera of Ireland Act, but the moderate can be found, but it can only be traordinary vicissitude. Figures Optical Co., Successors to Clark Control of codfish is to be BLYS that the policy of character of Sit James Craig's applied by the application of and values changed with such & Co., Manufacturing and Re-abandoned by the Newfoundland Sinn Fein stands for such speech strengthens the belief that & well-conceived and deduite amazing rapidity that it was fracting Opticians, 53, Queen's Government, in consequence of devolution in home affairs as the time la ripe for conference.
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