A WEEK-END CURE

Evening Star, Issue 18258, 24 April 1923, Page 9

A WEEK-END CURE

ENGLISH LABORITES ON THE RUHR. [From Our London Correspondent.] March 1. Four Labor extremists —'Messrs Wheatley, Maxon, Stephen, and Kirkwood—have spent a week-end in tho Ruhr. Their joint report on their impressions is one of tho most extraordinary documents imaginable. It displays an attitude of practical commonsense and severe impartiality entirely absent from their House of Common’s speeches on the subject, and affords a striking example of tho educative value even of a week-end’s travel. If thoy had a world tour they might come back modified Imperialists! Of course, they bl'ame tho wicked capitalists—tho German for telling their people it was impossible to pay anything, and the French tor telling theirs it was possible to got everything! Tho Labor triumvirate want tho Ruhr _ internationalised. under joint British, French, Belgian, German, and Italian control, the dividends to bo paid towards reasonable reparations. And they specially denounce the Stinnes group for cheating in the matter of taxation. While the workers aro taxed monthly, according to the mark’s current value, the millionaires pay last year’s taxes in depreciated marks this year, thus escaping with about 10 per cent, of their actual assessment.