STEADY IMPROVEMENT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17029, 14 August 1929, Page 7

STEADY IMPROVEMENT

CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND THE POLITICAL SITUATION (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. There is a decided improvement in the industrial world in Kngland. The shipbuilding industry is better than if has Been for years, and corresponding activity has been reflected in the steel, coal, and iron trades. Mr. Robert Burns, managing director of John Hums and Co., Ltd., who returned from abroad by the Marama, spent some months in England, and he brings the most optimistic information concerning business at Home. "There is a general feeling throughout Ureal Britain that the worst is over, and that things arc settling down," said Mr. Burns. "In many cases tins has been helped by the disposition on the part of the men to meet- their employers, and to come to an understanding, not so much by decreasing wages as by increasing output."

Mr. Burns stated that the effect of this could be seen in the coal trade. The hours of work have been increased slightly, ibut the production of coal has increased by about 30 per cent, a man. Mr. Ruin's states that the general impiession in England! is that if the Labor Government keeps to a sane and piogressive policy it will run its full term, but that at the next general election the Conservative Party will be returned to power. "The Labor Party in England is not what we would call a Labor Party here," confirmed Mr. Burns. He referred to several members of the party, including Sir Oswald Mosley. who was a very wealthy man, and Mr. Oliver Baldwin, a son of the former Prime Minister, who adopts a pose of dressing badly and in extravagant garb, and lounging aliout with villagers. It was all very theatrical.