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I bosses" in power think it should be done. Some traordinar examples are given, în a speech by Molotoff, the President of the Council of People's Com-

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Three years ago the leaders of the tin trust were put on their

Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 6, 1987, trial, but, curiously enough, “a

THE IRON AND STEEL SHORTAGE

a

change of personnel in the tin industry brought no substantial improvement.” Another “wreck- er? got into the management, "and we are still, left with Looking back on the history of miserable output of tin in this But now that there of Protection for the British iron country.” and steel industry, who would has been another purge Molotoff have prophesied that, within a 15

is sure that "we shall rapidly. few years the Government would move this

work forward."

their

an-

be driven to put pig iron on the Mediaeval tyrants used to adopt free list and to bring down the similar tactics towards duty on iron and steel products alchemists, but the transmuta- to 121⁄2 per cent? The Govern- tion of metals into gold has still ment, or rather the Import Dut to come. The Russian technician ies Advisory Committee, to has a hard life. If he says he which it has let out its think needs (to quote one of Molotoff's ing, is not, however, actuated by instances) 1,300,000,000 roubles Bing Crosby.mere tenderness towards con- to reorganise an industry and

sumers. It is feeling the pinch someone comes along with Sydney Lipton Orch.

itself.

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er” making “dishonest mercenary Strauss Sym. Orch. merely because of the Govern-

"If this demands on the State.” ment's restriction of imports in is wrecking it is not altogether the interests of British makers

unknown in capitalist countries; but because the whole world has perhaps a little of the same developed a voracious and ever- increasing appetite for iron and medicine might not be without steel for the armaments race. Mr. Runciman expressed the view recently that the lowering

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of the British duties would not The Spanish Lottery

help, but apparently the Import Duties Committee thinks it may.

Presumably the war in Spain It is hard to believe it will help will prevent the holding this year much, although any relief will

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of the greatest lottery in the world, the Spanish National Lot-

be welcome. All classes of con- sumers are reported to be press- ing for materials and it is stat-tery, whose “Gorda,” or “fat one, în prizes is worth as much ed that output is being curtailed as £500,000. Not even the Irish

£2-

or is in jeopardy in a wide range of industry. Had everything or the Calcutta Sweep prize has gone according to plan the de ever reached this figure. Besides ficiency should have been suppli- the huge first prize, some £2 ed from abroad through the000,000 in similar sums is also quota arrangements between the disbursed to make a few people British Iron and Steel Federa- happy and to cause the teeth of tion and the Continental cartel. a very much larger number to But the cartel countries have be well and truly gnashed.

n all 60,000 tickets are issued, In their own demands to meet, and their deliveries have fallen beat £57 apiece, but officially they hind. Hence the feverish search are split up into twentieths. As all over the world (even in Rus- even a twentieth costs £ 17s... sia) for fresh supplies. A few groups of people combine to pur- months ago, the duty was reduc- chase a ticket and further sub- ed on imports from the cartel. It divide it. Even a holder of a has now apparently been found two-hundredth of a ticket stands necessary to adopt the sensible a remote chance of several thou- course and to drop the whole ap-sands of pounds. For the last paratus of import control and three years, it has been stated, restriction and throw open the this lottery (which was institut- market.

The Wreckers

ed över 170 years ago by Carlos III) has been declining in magni- tude, and one suggestion of the reason is that even the non- mathematically minded Spanish peasant is at long last realising The Soviet purge goes merrily that he has a very meagre chance on. But the more vigorous: the of winning anything. But this shake-up the less easy is it to reason does not sound sensible find any guiding clue or to imag, to the experienced: the magni- ine how all these diverse officials tude of the odds never yet stop- could be governed by "Trotsky-ped the get-rich-quick spirit ist motives. In fact, of course, from venturing a little stake. It they are not, and the label of is much more likely that a ser

îsies of revolutions has left less "IT

ist”” and “wrec

to anyone who does not and less money for the luxury of perform his job as the party lotteries.