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His declaration of policy is sharp and these the public wants houses it is not going to tolerate ob struction. he said. whatever form it may takesor from, whatever quarter it The union was apparently may come." afraid of competition and wanted to sup press steel houses before they made themselves known. That was what he was determined to prevent This was no time for any section of the community to put sand in the wheels and prevent a fair and impartial examination of any method which had a chance of helping them out of a great difficulty.

Messrs. Weir, of Glasgow, desire to erect these houses with shipbuilding labour at shipbuilding wages. The build- ing trade replies that as it is houses, not ships, which are to be built, the rate of wages paid must be that of the building trade. In other words, it seeks. by the meanest of punctilios, to preserve intact the monopoly which every year is working more seriously to the nation's detriment. The building trade Unions, thanks to their consistent policy of refusing to nd mit additionnt labour except on their own terms, are unable themselves to erect as many hours as the country needs, and they are determined, it seems, that ne one else shall erect them

THE RENT WAR.

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try and to some extent they bave already | OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE. succeeded. The Emergency" Committee are in their own words "attacking house- owners and factors on every question likely to embarrass them so far as the collection of rents is concerned. Thys contemplate the possibility of the move. ment developing into a national tenants' union- the biggest and most powerfud ia Britain "-with immense possibilities before it might hold up rents for a thousand reasons" it. might even hold up the administration of the country. "Could there be a more crude, a viore iniquite appeal to class consciousness and class cupidity! I re veals the real character of the Clydebank agitation which is political, Holsberist handled through one hoard of directors." revolutionary.. This aim was openly. It is a grandiose idea, which, on reflec avowed by Mr. Maxton, M.P.. when re-tion, disengages serious doubts. A vast ferring to the sturdy character of the monopoly of that kind, for a product so people of Clydebank. he said that they easily and so cheaply made, is difficul will smash the capitalist system Lefore it to believe in. Sentrish whisky, outside smashes them." And again- We made of Scotland, was almost unknown till its then discontented. Widespread discon-export was organised and developed by tent is necessary for the elevation of the men stil living. Is the world which now drinks it permanently committed tu people,"

The latest runouvre at Clyd-bank, which aleahol of a certain Scottish favour! of Scotch might be regarded as amusing were the Is the particular favour

the chemist's matter not so serious, arises out of four whisky quite beyond interdicts which were granted against imitation? If the Irish Free State. tenants for returning after evictions. to

languishing distilling in. Ireland. The nuts made a rive to defeat this industry

deliberately the exportation of by exchanging houses The writ, they encouraged argued, is thus no longer applicable near Scotch native distillation, what against the person mration in it in would happen & respect of the house in question, because he has moved to another house by mutual arrangement with another tenant in the samar position. The Lord Advocate has been appealed to take action under the Trespass Act. 156. against evicted tenants who have resumed pussession, but he has replied that, particularly in view of the inquiry about to be held by the Departmental Committee into the Clyde- bankproblem he is not prepared to in- tervene. The position has this reached a deadlock so far as enforcement of the law in concerned.

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At the annual meeting of the Glasgow Licensed Trade Defence Association the president complained that many pro- minent corner sites which used to be des cupied by public-houses were now being taken over by more lucrative businesses, This bourgeoning of such as banks. handsome bank branches in Edinburgh as well as in Glasgow has been a subject the of late, and of general remark grumblings owe it have not been con fined to the trade." It has synchrouis- ed with a notable activity in the purvey. ing and confectionery business. By A few peace provide all the raw mater far the most prominent architectural fea. rial that goes to the king of a bottle tures in our main thoroughfares to-day of whisky: ned the labour involved costs are banks, restaurants, and confectionery little. Even when rent, bottling, and

ahops, which vie with one another in distribution are added to the prime their display of carved stone, polished costs of a bottle retailed at 12. 60, there marble, and elegant woodwork The. is at last balf-a-sovereign of that tum thoughtful economist is puzzled by the unaccounted for. It certainly is not phenomenon, and wonders how," with the| half-a-severdiën of profit for distillers suppression of other businesses, the com- and retailers; about §. 8d. of it repte munity manages to accumulate the money sents the consumer's patriotic contributo deposit in the banks and spend of tion to the Inland Revenue. Nothing we meals and chocolates. Still though the put into our mouth is so illusory in its trade" may lament the altered "condi virtues as Mountain Dew; it is as intang-tions, Goldsdith of our day would ible as the value would be of mountain scarcely be moved to exclaim mist put ap in curdboard boxes and sold

as a breakfast cereal. Yet this rainbow. stuff is at present creating-more interest in the Stock Exchange, than any other industrial "product of Scotland. Even confirmed teetotalers are buying whisky

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The nation spends more than ever. shares in quite irrational moods of high upon alcoholic liquor, but owing to the expectancy, and selling them again in tremendous duties, the increased expen- terror. During the past month distillery diture represents a smaller consumption stock has been wobbling up and down of intoxicating beverages, particularly and up again. like the fine on a baro of spirits. Thus, while the scale is graph chart, Most of the speculators highly profitable for the State, it can seemed to think that whisky was going be conducted within narrower. limits. to be money-maker to the same sensa tional degree as Oil and Bubbor in the earlier days of the exploitation of those products

The modern public-house, in fiet, has be- come, something in the nature of a tax office, where the taxpayer receives a sina!i refreshment by way of complimentary The reason for all this gambling is now asknowledgment. It would not be im- revealed, the Big Three in the Scotch possible, indeed, to trace a connection be whisky trade have concluded a merger wech, the declining consumption of Buchanan Dewar. Distilleries' Company, liquor and the prominence of some of and Johnnie Walker. A further rumour thaso establishments that are ousting the is to the effect that amalgamation is public-house. May not one legitimately going will farther, that by and bye all infer that we are becoming a more sober, the Scotch whisky in the world will be and therefore an intrinsically wealthier

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