"ON STRANGE SEAS."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15223, 22 May 1920, Page 5

"ON STRANGE SEAS."

;•■-.•■ ■" — - , . !*. •. • DISMAL ENGLISH* PICTURE. FREMAiSTTLE, May 9.— According to the Rev, E.- S. Keik, late of Halifax, Yorkshire, who has been Appointed principal of .the Parkin Congregational Church, Adelaide, and arrived by the Orsova yesterday, the industrial .position m. England is alarming. He said ,that even more so than m, Australia Wages were chasing prices m a. vicious circle. Everything was chaotic. People, wero chaotic m their thinking. Old . political parties had been broken up, and everybody was drifting on a strange sea. \Tho profiteering was abominable, and nothing had yet been done to deal effectively with it, the established tribunals being a laughing stock. But dear as commodities were m Australia, they were far ' dearer m -England.. Oho often heard of the new rich,. but little was. heard about tbo new poor, whose, lot Was becoming increasingly hard. The upper classeß wcro making huge profit?, .' and. workers with their increased wages had some chance of making a living; but people in-between — particularly those on fixed salaries-^-were being hard pressed. . ■ .■ '. , T'>e tor^wcv m "England m industrinl circles,, added 'Mr Keik, was to ward 'guild organisation. '