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AMERICA'S GREAT PROSPERITY.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PICTURE.

[Br SYDNEY BROOKS.]

America's industrial troubles are a still to come:

Again, in America it is rarely that any extra payment is made for overtime or for night work, white even in the most progressive States there is hardly anything that ep proaches our elaborate British system of compensation against the risks of industry,

That is the final impression I get from reading the report of the delegation appointed by the Minis: try of Labour to study industrin conditions in the United States and Canada. It is, on the while, a full

Money wages undoubtedly report and a favourable one, and higher there than here, but real there is certainly a good deal that wages-that is to say, the purchas our manufacturers as well as ouring power of the pay envelope--are Trade Union leaders might learnlittle, if at all, above ours.

from it.

Yet it reinforces a conviction that has long been forming in my mind that America, in relation to the problems of Labour, stands in many ways about where we stood afty Years ago, and that breath all her vigorous prosperity there are the sters of fiercer industrial conflicts China we in Britain have ever

kuown.

The backwardness of America in ancial legislation, the way in which over there the law and opinion generally, favour capital, the in- difference of the public to the rights of Labour, are not em- phasised in the Report, but they are revealed by it.

are

When

you reckon the staggering cost of rents, clothing, and the household accessorica that American ingenuity has popularised, moal of the differ ence between the American and the scale of earnings dis- British

appeare.

Better Of At Coventry. Take, for instance, the motor-car business, which is the one where mass production has been carried farthest and where the worker is lenst distinguishable from tho machine. The average akilled man at Detroit gets £32: a year and the average unakilled man £240. I have no doubt whatever that a skilled man at Coventry, would be better off on £250 a year and an unskili

£180.

How, I wonder, would a Britished man working man like to go to a coun There is another factor in Ame try where there is practically po rican-judustrialism that bazaleats State provision for employment, to be remembered most of the un- sickness, and old nge, and where, skilled work and not a little of the if he were out-of a job, he would skilled is done by immigrants from A British worker who have nothing but his savings and a Europe. charity all compounded of probibi- imagines that in the United States tions and restrictions to fall back he will ensily get a job along with men of his own race, tongue and kidney is liable to some rather sharp surprises.

upon

How Would He Like It? How would he like a country where a strike as often-as not finds

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LORRY CRASH AT SHAU- KIWAN.

INQUEST ON WOMAN OPENED.

CONFLICT OF EVIDENCE.

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Mr. R.

Lindsell, set as Coroner, with a jury composed of Messrs. E. S. Abraham (foreman), J. A. B. Silva and Yeung Wing Suk. at the Central Magistracy yesterday to enquire into the deathị | of a Chinese woman, aged 37, wh was killed on April 25th, at Shan- kiwan,

Dr. A. Cannon said that a post- mortem showed lacerated wounds i on the right feg, a fracture of the breast bone, and fracture and dis lation of the fourth spinal veterbral. In witness' opinion, leath was caused by the fracture and the severe blow on the head.

It appears from the evideque given by Mrs. M. Toms, that the motor-lorry were laden with coolica, the deceased being one of them, was coming down the new motor There were road at Shaukiwan. about six or seven persons going up at the time. These pedestrians were on the inner side of the rond and were just rounding a sharp bend. The lorry was thus placed on the outer side of the road, and in trying to avoid the pedestrians, it swerved and crashed over thu side of the hill. All those who were on the lorry at the time were injured.

Due of the pdcatrians said he was an undertaker's coolie. They were at the time carrying a coffin up the new road. They were on the outer side of the road and when the lorry passed them, they were just between two bends. The lorry went past them and he did not know at the time that it had erashed over

the hillside.

Ilia Worship pointed out to wit- ness that it was given in evidence

I do not think it can be ques- tioned that there are wore op the power of the Courts, backed uportunities in America and a mors by the armed force, of the State, imoyant spirit of hope and on- arrayed against the strikera? Andition than here. The average man a country where the average hours gets on there more easily, but for of labour are 50 a week-which-mann above the average, a tan | by r European lady that the means that he would probably be like Leverhulme, or Morria or funeral procession was on the near working 501

Inchcape, Britain offers prizes of the road and that the lorry had almost as rich in a society far more to take to the outer part.- comfortable.

And a enuntry where even in the most unionised industries only a littly over 20 per cent, of the work- ers belong to the unions, where the closed shop" is the rule rather than the exception, and where such wong as exist have to battle for privileges that in Britain were con ceded to them two generations дво?

THE CIGAR HABIT. LOND BIRKENHEAD'S REMINISCENCES.

THE BEST HE EVER SMOKED

COST ONE PENNY.

Lord Birkenhead and Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., guests at the second anuual luncheon of the Cigar Mer- chants Association, at the Holborn Restaurant, puffed contentedly at two remarkable cigars while others spoke. Their Havanas, made of specially-selected leaf and superb in condition and richness of colour, measured over 6even

inches in length, and cach weighed two-

thirds of an ounce.

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There is much that is admirable in the triumphs of American indus trialism, but the whole fabric bangs together on a single blenk thread of self-interest, and when the present wave of prosperity spends itself, the reaction will be convulsive and possibly terrible-Sunday Herald.

HIDEOUS HOUSES. ENGLISH AUTHORITIES ASK FOR MORE POWERS.

Rural district councils through out England are making a combin ed effort to obtain legal power to preserve the beauty of the country- side from the hand of the builder. In the House of Commons Mr. Robert Young (Soc., Newton) re- cently asked Mr. Neville Chamber lain, the Minister of Health, whe ther he had received resolutions from rural district councils urging that power be given them and other local authorities to refer hack or to reject plans of buildings present ed to then for approval which threaten the beauty of the country- side.

The Cigar Merchants' Association are to intensify their campaign to

The question was the result of the bring Britain hack to general appreciation of what they energetic action of Woodstock (Ox- claim to be the purest all forms fordshire) Rural District Council, of smoking. Their enemy is the who sent a circular letter to every England, numbering ad valorem duty. Since 1899 im-council in perts of cigars have dropped from more than 600, asking for their 2,400,000 hs. to 607,243 lbs. To-day, support in the matter. on 100 cigara at 75s, the duty is 229.

The Rev. F. R. Marriott, chair- man of the council mentioned, stid:

Witness said he eculd call one i of the Chinese bronze (nunks) in the funeral procession to testify

The ense was adjourned until Monday next.

JAPAN'S FINANCES.

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

The Consulate-General of Japan at Hong Kong. has received cable information from Tokyo to the fol lowing effect:-

"The Bill empowering the Gov- ernment to make a special loan to the Bauk of Japan and to give assurance for the loss which may be incurred by the said Bank in connection with their giving a loun to various banks to cope with the presont financial situation, was passed in the Diet with slight literal modification.

The Bill for giving loans to the Banks in Formosa, in- clusive of the Bank of Taiwan, was also passed without any modifica tion. They are expected to be pro- mulgated as an Act on May 10th."'-

INDIAN SMUGGLING

MENACE. HOW OFFENDERS ESCAPE THE LAW.

BOMBAY, April 21st. While commercial circles in Bora- hay are anxiously considering what steps should be taken to prevent the deflection of trade from Bombay to the Kathinwar ports, it is stated that Madras is faced with a similar

We have had plans of houses Lord Birkenhead, proposing the

before us of which we have not toast of "The Cigar Trade," said,

approved but which we bad no "I have had in my life a great

legal right to refuse to pass, deal of pleasure from the results

think that a general law should of your business activities. It was.

be made so that the local authori-problem. I think, at the age of 18, when I

ties can protect the countryside a was at Oxford, and went on

from the desecration caused by reading tour to Dinard, that I first!

some of the hideous villaa and acquired the habit of smoking

rows of unsightly houses. сіката. They were the best cigars

Mr. J. McIntyre, secretary of the I have ever smoked in my life. Rural District Councila Associa They were of French tobacco. tion, St. Stephen's House, West- (Laughter.) They cost ane penny minster, said: "At present coun- each. (Loud laughter.)

The Associated Chambers of Com- merce of India and Ceylon have received a representation from the Madras Chamber in regard to alleged evasion of payment of - port duty by means of amuggling goods through the Port of Pondi- cherry, particularly with reference: cils can refuse to approve a plan to trade in smuggled gold thread. Twenty-five years ago I met in on the grounds of health, or some

The Madras Chamber point out Cuba Herr Bock, who was really real fault, but not on the grounds that the raising of the import duties the Napoleon of the eigar industry. of an ugly design.""

a few years ago served as a stimulus When ho went to Cuba there was

to the smuggling, industry on the and gold Dot a cigar in the sense in which

Pondicherry frontier, thread, owing to its high value and small bulk, is eminently suitable for

we speak of it to-day. He went could be sold at a low price. The there as a clever, adaptable, imagi- whole question was a financial one. native boy, to make his earoer. It The Government had to deal with the smugglera.. was a dominating career. With the finances of what was a most talent and initiative he saw the unhappy year. chance of making the most just and adequate use of the leaves of the enchanting tobacco plant.

The Chamber of Commerce con-

Although in 1924 the new Act gave proventive officers the power Mr. G. Graham. D'Arcy, the impose penalties in addition to chairman, replying, said that last confiscation, no power was given to sear the actual amount of revenue impose Imprisonment in case of Any sue who really understands gained from imported cigars was failure to pay the fine imposed. what a cigut is, and has any palate £400,000. In justice to the eigar capable of discriminating in the trade, to the cigar-smoking public, sider the power now granted use- rantter, justly refuses to admit that and to the expanding of national less in the case of codlie carrier who those who smoke cigarettes or pipes revenue, some relief in the taxation cannot pay the fine, and who, there- et cigars was necessary. Since 1899 smoko at all.-(Loud laughter and

eaught applause.) It is with cigars alone the cigar duty had been increased fore, risks nothing even if he is seven times, with the result that The Chainer take the view that that serions. smokers are concern.

there had been an alarming de there will be no lack of personnel ed."

Orippling Taxation. crease in the consumption of cigars. to. carry on the trade unless the Referring to the taxation of The cigar-smoking public to-day offence is made punishable with cigarettes, Lord Birkenhead said had to pay 18, per ounce on every imprisonment, and ask the Anso the contentions of those in the cigar cigar they smoked. That was un- ciated Chambers to take up the matter with the Government of trade were worthy of examination. fair.

Mr. J. H. Thomar, M.P., replied India, laying particular stress on The sensible period of decline in the industry set in when it became to the toast of "Our Guests" in a thin aapeet of the question.

The Bombay Chamber, whose imposible to produce an undoubt humorous speech. He asked, "What

ed Havana cigar at the price of 6d. chance have you got with a Chan-views on the question were invited It was useless to persevere with a cellar of the Exchequer who smokes by the Associated Chambers, sup- tax to the extent of crippling or cigars that are not Havana, port the Madras Chamber's sugges tion, but feel that the only practical cancelling an industry. It must be Colonial Secretary who doesn't a great blow when it was impossible smoke at all, and a Prime Minister method of dealing with the matter

pipe"(Loud is to make a drastic reduction in the | to produce & Havens eigar which who smokes

laughter.) (Continued on next Column).

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