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OUR LONDON LETTER.

ROUNDING UP THE COMMUNISTS IN ENGLAND.

GOVERNMENT FORCED TO ACT BY PUBLIC OPINION."

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT; }

TACKLING THE COMMUNISTÀ.

The authorities here have at last decided to tackle the Communists. It is not done before action was necessary, Publip opinion was becoming restive Red agitators have been going about the country for months inciting decent. minded working won to strike and generally taking trouble for employers of labour and for the loverament There is reason to believe that they were turning attention to the police and the troops with the object of causing dis affection. And while all this has been happening the powers that be. Tooked calmly on.

Ldsoos, October 31st. this occasion it will be maintained Wo have had so many false starts during the past four years that industrialists are exceedingly cautious in expressing themselves, but there is now more optimism even in the iron, steel and conf trades than for some months past. COPYING THE PRINCE.

It is pleasant to hear that the pfects. upon trade in this counts of the visit of the Prince of Walk to South America are beginning to make themselves feit.. The smart sot in the South America Republics have always been very keen an London-made clothing and London- created fashions, and what has happen

I believe that even, now the Governed now is that, the visit of the Prince ment would have sat still but for the of Wales has given enormous stimulus | plain speaking the Prime Minister and other leading ligts in the Cabinet bad to the demand for men's clothing of all to listen to at the annual Conference of kinds from London tailors" Conservatives at Brighton. They could see trouble ahead when Parliament met, from their awu supporters, unless they did something to curb the activities of Communists The result is that within the last week or so some aliens known as Communists have been deported, while a gound dozen of the home-grown species have been arrested.

AGITATORS IN COURT.

Those who have been taken to custody by the police are more or José well-known Comunists; they are offi cially connected with the party's ar ganisation as speakers and workers. They are charged with conspirzey to utter and pablish seditious libels and incite divera persoas to commit breaches of the Incitement to MutingkAct, 1797 Among the defendants is John Ross Campbell, editor of the Worker Feekly, a notorious paper, who was charged last year with A somewhat similar offence, and the case was with drawn by order of the Labour"Govern- denta circumstance which contributed to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's undoing. When the Communists were brought up at Bow Street Page Court a raucous. voiced mob of unwashed humanity surrounded the Court and sang The Red Flag" till they were hourse, But at the second hearing of the case a few days ago the police were in force and took care to keep hooliganiam on the move. I hear there is plenty of evidence in support of the charges A quaer of a million printed pamphlets were going

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Big orders are, it is stated, coming from not only Argentina, but Chile and Uruguay, and buyers in this country are busily at work supplying the demand. created by the desire to copy the war- drobo of H.R.H. South Africa is not showing quite so much eagerness in this respect, but a good many orders have been received from the Commonwealth, especially from the wholesalers in the big towas It is hoped that still bigger business will follow in other branches of trade with the South American Re- publica in particular, for there are many enquiries in London Just now:

"BCY BRITISH GOODS. W

good reception has been given to the eircular issued by the President of the Board of Trade and the Minister of Health

to heads of various locai authorities in England and Wales. The communication is the logical outcome of

series of resolutions passed by the Chambers of Commerce and the Fedora- tion of British Industries, the point of which can be summed up in the phrase,

Buy British Goods "för · Christmas."'

the Lord Mayors, Mayors, and Chairmen The two ministers jointly suggest that of Urban and Rural District Councils should form Committees and invite the co-gporation of local Chambers of Coni-

creo or Tradesmen's Associations, in: order to arrange all-British shopping weeks between now tod Christmas. We have had during the last two or three years several examples of what can be done by local effort is this direction.

at the Communist headquarters per extension of the movement would be Covent Garden, and also a quantity of good for local tradespeple, and for letters. It is early yet to say what one Empiro trade. Also, it would have a thinks of the prosecution's story. Peo very useful educational effect.. ple are, of course, rastly interested in the some adLISH “I LANGUAGË,” disclosure that sug of the letters is generally admitted that "since the duced-in Court referred to aum-of £800 received from Moscow, some of the money being called wages for the

president and the sueretary.

THE INDUSTRI VAIZ

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war and no doubt because of the war-

himself by Mr. Justice Lawrence.

there has been a tendency in England to ****indalgo in picturesque language. You hear expletives rapped out on the stage in scores of plays and nobdy seems to A great effort is being made by the mind. In ordinary conversation "swear Goverument to get the buyers of the words," as the schoolboy said, are com world to come to London and Birming-mon. I suppose it is because we have ham fext February for the British In- got used to it that a letter to the Press. dustries Fair. This is felt to be an signed "Amazed Colonial," comes rather opportunity for making the slogan as a surprise. He wants the B.B.C. to Buy British goods" a reality. The broadcast a protest against the hard London Fair, was not held this year wearing which he finds prevalent in all Because it would have interfered with ranks of English society.

OL ecurse, the B.B.C. have no inten- Wembley. Next year it will be bigger than ever, and it will be held notes tion, to do anything of the kind; but it was once thought possible at Wembley reminds one of a golfing story told against A but in its old quarters at the White City small boy appeared before him in Court. which exhibitors prefer for its accep sibility. In previous years the Indus as a witness and the judge asked him if tries Fair has been open only to buyers, he were acquained with the nature of and now the experiment is to be tried of oath. "Of course I am," piped the throwing it open in the evening to the bay," Ain't I often, been your caddie ?"? Paying sightecer, at the request of the LONDON LUNCH CLUBS.

xhibiting firms, who are fully alive to

While, in the City this week I heard the value of the advertisement. The of a new scheme for starting lunch clubs charge for space has been reduced. It for business men. Of late years the is possible that the Dominions will, for lunch hour has gradually become more the first time, show their wäres at the [and more the time for serious White City

business; in some respects the after.. inch coffee table is becoming as important in the city man's as his desk. The London plan is to have some half-dozen of these clubs in the City, one in each of the special dréas of business

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The Government is spending £20,000 in advertising the fair in orwapapera and trade journals all over the world, and all the official businosa representa tives"abroad are to do their. utmost to bring the great trade exhibition to the notice of buyers. Invitations are being, One luneb-club, being the first of the sent to about 150,000 firms in this ceud under the ole and alluring title of the kind, was opened a few months ago, try and oversens. Deng

Merchant Adventurers Club, It is in SHELTERED AND · UNISELÄRRED TRADES,

Crutched Friars among the shipping. For some time to come the conditions offices. The members remind themselves in industry in this country will give of the sea by looking on the outer world occasion for anxiety. But I believe it through windows shaped liked portholes. will be seen before long that matters are Then there is the Crypt Club in Cannon beginning to mend. There must be time, Street which was opened this week. It is however, to get over some of the diff housed in the crypt of a vanished church culties in the way, I hear it suggested and is decorated in the Heitoration that the question of sheltered and un-style. The scheme for establishing these sheltered trades will have to be tackled. lunch-clubs is to be extended to the big Is does seem stranga that a railway | províncial cities.

porter should get higher wages for lift

ing a package into or out of a truck THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR IN LONDON. than a highly skilled angineer. The present Russian Ambassador in I bear it stated that: if the price of London, M. Rakovsky, has been appoint- coal, transport costs and other external fed to the Paris Embassy He is Aure ta charges on industry were reduced there feel more at home in the French Capital would soon be an improvement la trade. since he was educated there, lived there The effect of these indirect charges off for many years, and speaks French like the main industries of the country is native, created a enormous; the charges are a tax which Although this change has been officially Frevent a general expansion in business announced the name of his successor here It is further said that the Government has not been officially confirmed, but it should give a lead to the municipalities is expected that M. Krassin is to be the in the matter of economy.Administra" man. He was in Londen for sons years tive charges are too heavy. They ham in connection with the Russian Trade per the business world.

Delegation, and was the most successful representative Russia has had in this country probably because he has a keen sense of humour.H.B.

There has been some improvement in the iron and stool trade during the past fortnight, and the prospects are that on

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