EMPLOYERS AND REDUCED OUTPUT.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The extract of a letter from " South African " in your issue of June 7th, and the letter from Messrs. J. & E. Hall in your issue of June 28th, are instructive. Here " South • African is desirous of obtaining the products of Messrs. Hall's works with the object of developing a part of the British Empire and increasing the supply of certain commo- dities eagerly desired by many in the world. Messrs. J. & E. Hall are equally desirous of supplying " South African " with what he requires if they can do so without loss to them- selves. The fact that they cannot do business together surely points to something wrong with the machinery designed to facilitate the exchange of goods and services. Why then is there such opposition to an examination of this machinery with a view to making it more suitable for the work it was
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