NO WORKERS
Mr Alfred Yarrow, the engineer and ship builder, interviewed at Southampton on his arrival from Now York in the Cunard liner Aquitania, said that there was no unemployment in the United States. Trade union restrictions on demarcation, he said, do not exist to anything like the same extent as in the United Kingdom. Men were more free to take any kind of employment that they were capable _ of carrying on. He considered that Prohibition was beneficial in the manufacturing districts; the increased efficiency per man was estimated by large employers of labor at 17 to 18 per cent. “We have," he added, "to face the fact that owing to Prohibition competition with the United States will bo greater than ever.”
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Evening Star, Issue 18504, 11 December 1923, Page 6
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122NO WORKERS Evening Star, Issue 18504, 11 December 1923, Page 6
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