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Professor Maxwell Lefroy, who has en Professor of Entomology at the im perial College of Science and Technology. since 1919, gave a reporter the following
Professor Harold Maxwell Lefroy, the The bill promoted by the Miners' entomologist, narrowly escapeit death Federation, and presented by Mr. Stephen through remaining too long in a room at the Imperial Walsh, to secure for miners a minimum Elled with poison gas wage of. Les per shift, failed to obtain College of Science and Technologs, South a second reading in the House of Com-Kensington, S.W., while experimenting
in fly destruction, Itst mouth. mons by a majority of sixty-five.
Two assistants found him, collapsed in Mr. Walsh put forward his bill as no- thing more than a measure to fix figures his chair in his study, which he had man- so as to carry into effect a principle read to reach after being gusset: cognised by the Act of 1912 The miner's Oxygen had to be administered for an standard of life had fallen 20 per cent hour before he was revived. belaw. the cost of living compared with pre-war standards, he declared Unfor- tunately, Mr. Walsh did not go so, far as to tell the House what would be the effect of his bill in the present very serious cir-account of his experience: cumstances. The omission Was con- spicuous enough to detract materially front the symmetry and the effectiveness of an earnest and warm-hearted specch
Opposition to the bill was led by Lieut. Colonel C. Headlan, Unionist member for Barnard Castle, who moved an amentment that the House decline to con sider a bill which, while establishing at rigi minmam, withdrew from those directly concerned the power to settle their own affairs in consultation and con ference on conditions prevailing at any given time." Colonel Hendiam objected to the bill as untimely, and asserted that what was wanted more than anything else
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For some time we have been experieAL menting with various substances for kill ing dies. About a fortnight ago I de cided to see what Lewisite would do to them. It was invented by an Ameri- can "At the end of 1919 it was the last word in poison gas. Our aeroplanes were going to drop it on Berlin, but this was prevented by the signing of the Armistice.
Lewisite, a brown, odqurless liquid, gives of an invisible, odourless vapour. A human being inhaling twn hours. I should say the inner surface of the langs being burnt and unable to func
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number of Bies 1 then mixed a quan- tity of Lewisite" with mineral oil-an action which undoubtedly saved my life. poured two teaspoafuls of the liquid into a mechanical spray and pumped the vapour into the ai
• FLIES UNAFFECTED.
When I had finished I started to ex
FIGURES AS TO COST. Some of the figures as to the cost of the bil! which Mr. Walsh had failed to pro duce were supplied by Sir. Beddoe Rees, the Liberal member for Bristol South. This was a "money for nothing", bill, be declared, and would add £25,000,000 to the wages bill of the industry, and es. namine the flies. They rested on the walle, ton to the price of coal. Could the indus-rubbing their hind legs together, appar. try stand it! IF could not. daded the tly quite happy. They seemed to take hon. member conclusively, it was quite no notice of the gus, and I was annoyed
with them. useless to dicuss the bill Out of the total
So absorbed was I in watching them proceeds of the industry in 1924, a sum of £163,500,000, no less than £152,000,000 been in the rocin about five minutes I that I forgot my danger. When I had went in wages. The small profit made int that year would not nearly meet the new began to feel as if my lungs were getting charges which would have to be faced in which should have swang
bot. I pulled the cord of a window, open and der the bill. The only way to increase
allowed an inrush of air. wages was for owners and men to combine to increase output and reduce costs of production.
The cord broke at the top where I could not. repair it. I opened the door and warned two men in the library ad- A warning that the House ought not to joining to clear out as the gas might find consolation in the prospect of agree-lenk through to them. ment in the current negotations was the I then went to my private room, but disquieting message of Mr. Varbs, the remembered that I had left the spray and Labour-Socialist member for Mansfield the mixture lying about. I returned to He sought to influence the judgment of the chemieni room, cleaned out the the House by making its flesh creep.
with fales of the encouragement that revolu- the mixture. I looked at the lies and. spray, and labelled the bottle containing tionary movegients would receive it the they seemed to be still quite happy. bill were rejected. Sir Robert Horne I have a vague recollection of then warned the House that there could be no going to my own room." more unfortunate time in which to ina- titute a minitan wage in the coal industry than the present. Gemiany had found a use for her brown coal, and was exporting ber black coal in vast quantities in toupetition with us. The coal trade. throughout the country last year did no more than meet its costs, and, whatever the merits of the bill, and however much they might desire to see wages increased, this was no time for the fixing of a minimum rate.
STARTLING, FACTS. Startling Sgures as to the increase of coal output in foreign countries were given to the House by Lieut-Colonel Line-Fox (Secretary. Mines Department), replying on behalf of the Government. Faced by this severe foreign competition. pits in this country, were closing down every day. What were the supporters of the bill go- ing to do" to ineet even the present situation ne asked. The Government could not be reproached for lack of sympathy with the miners, any more fairly than could the Labour Government be reproached for lack of sympathy with the agricultural workers, when they refused to insert a minimum wage in the hill last year. The House had never inserted such figures in any measure. In the case of the present hill, his department was in- formed that it would raise the average costs of production by 23, or 3. a ton, and in some centres by 4s, and sa aton.
LONDON PERTURBED. BLUNDERING ABOUT RUBBER
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It is perfectly natural that Mincing Lane should be perturbed over the fall in London stacks of rubber. The latest messages state that they are now under 15.000 tons, and the assertion is made that the decrease is about 1,000 tons a week. But Londop can get as much rab ber as it pleases if it will pay the price. If producers can sell more advantageous- y elsewhere and in other ways that, London favours, they have not only a right to do it but are right "in doing the very best they can for themselves.
The plantation industry does not exist to supply, the Mincing Lane brokers with profitable business. Its function is to supply the world's need of rubber, and, to compensate rubber shareholders for the lean years through which they have passed. Any Mircing. Lane broker whe can convince producers that it is to their advantage to sell through, him will get business-plenty of it. No broker can hope to get it or has any claim to get it.
other conditions, and it is mere childish nonsense to talk of forcing consignments to London, in order that the brokers may prosper.
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It will not matter the toss of a copper coin to the rubber trade in general if every ton of rubber stocked in London there is disappears, provided that enough rubber stocked elsewhere to meet the world's necils, and talk of grave scarcity just because London stacks have gone down is foolishness. If there were actual scarcity, the price would not wobble feebly round 1, 9d. It would shoot up to two or three shillings, with promise of even higher rates-The Straite Times
Professor Maxwell-Lefroy describes his symptoms as blistered mouth and wind- pipe, and a pain as if I had a red-hot water-bottle in my chest.
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