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SATURDAY, DECEMBER : 8, · 1928.
CELEBRATING THE SHOPS CHARTER.
HOME SECRETARY'S DEFENCE OF D.O.R.A.
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Loadon, Nov. 8.
The Early Closing Association last night celebrated the shops' charter the placing on the Statuto Book of the Shops (Hours of Closing) Act-by a Victory banquet at the Hotel Victoria
The Duke of Sutherland pre- olded.
Slr W. Joynson-Hicks, the Home Socrotary, said that the Associa tion had established the Saturday half-holiday as a permanent fac- tor throughout the English-speak |ing_world, and it was now being
coplod on the Continent.
For the first time in history, the early closing of all shops had been placed on the Statuto Book, and a social roform of that character would never be removed. The real reason for the Act was the phy sical and mental well-being of the vast thousands who served In shops.
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"All through the history of your Association," be continued, "you have been careful to consider first, to educate the public next, and then, and not until then, you come to Parliament to ask them to translate your wishes and publie opinion into statutory law."
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"I know this legislation is sneered at s grandmotherly legislation. Those aneera du not come from the shop assistants or the shopkeepers. They come from men and women who are not personally interested in the life of the shop assistant, and are not themselves forced to work the long hours which shop assistants used to work.
"Surely the time has come when we can ask those who object to what they term grandmotherly legislation to think once in a while of the well-being of the community.
"If we have by this great Act given happiness, comfort, and weil-being, physical, mental, moral, and spiritual, to hundreds of thouannds of the community, we can afford to disregard the aneers of a few hundred selfish and disgruntled egotists."
Captain Larking, replying to the toast of the Association, said that one great problem yet to be solved was the Sunday question.
LORD BIRKENHEAD.
A DIRECTOR OF IMPERIAL INDUSTRIES.
London, Nov. 9. The directora of Imperial Chemical Industries, Limited, yes- terday announced that the Earl of Birkenhead had joined the Board of that Company,
Although there were certain other directions to which the City had been looking as constituting the main field of the future busi- ness activities of Lord Birkenhead, there had also been a fairly gen- eral expectation that he was like- ly to become identified in some way with Imperial Chemical In- dustries. It was, therefore, with more intereat than surprise that the City learned yesterday that he had been elected to the Board of that concern.
It is one of the biggest indus- trial combinations in the country, having an authorised capital of £75,000,000, of which nearly £65,- 000,000 has been issued. The Chairman of the company is Lord Melchett, and the President and Deputy-Chairman Sir Harry D. McGowan, while, among others, Lord Birkenhead will have for col- leagues the Marquess of Reading, Lord Ashfield, Lord Colwyn, Sir Max Muspratt and Lord Weir.
Lord Birkenhead presided last night at a dinner of the Cheshire Society at the Hotel Metropole, given in honour of the Solicitor- General, Sir Boyd Merriman..
He made, no reference to his business carreer, but confessed that if he had a gaol it was to be Recorder of Birkenhead. "That is all," he added.
"It was only when I was sure of the merits of Birkenhead," he Bald earlier in his speech, "that I- decided to accept the modest title. which distinguishes the name of the greatest family in the world." (Laughter.)
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