GENERAL CABLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 54, 15 January 1921, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES

The Association t f Members Commerce rejected ■> mot cn in favOr of the compulsory .nrJ bin*.-, of foreign goods catering the 1 v.itcd Kingdom. Speakers said . 1+ vould pro judioe re-export, and might react unfavorably abroad. The Consumers’ Council in London demands the creation of a Food Ministry, It ‘alleges that the whole attitude of tho Government is prim-

arily in th&Jnt- rest of traders, who,; influence is paramount in Parliament. Tho Council expresses the opium n that the proposed d runt re I o r who’', is fraught with the gra ■. st danger fomenting speculation. Lieutenant Langdon, an officer on the American cruiser Albany, was shot dead by a Japnaese sentinel at Vladivostok on January 11. The reason is unknown. The Japanese Consul-General has expressed regrets to the American Consul at Vancouver. Tho New South Wales wheat harvest is estimated at 55,302,000 bushels, averaging'll7.B bushels per acre. This is a record'for the present area of wheat growing. The total yield in Australia is estimated at 146,793,CUO bushels. Mr John Hoyle, a Bradford oil merchant, has offered publicly to hand over his business to a local trade union to ho run for the profit of the union for two years. He sard that he was tired of the pretensions of trade unionists to run industries. He ,is prepared xo~hand over his stock, and tho trade unionists could take tho profit though, of course, they would have to hear any loss. He believes that, whereas he can make profits by his technical knowledge and experience, trade unions cannot.