7 FEBRUARY 1925, Page 28

LABOUR ANXIETIES.

To take these two elements of uncertainty alone, namely, Labour and the Gold Standard, it will be seen what a great difference might be produced upon the course of securities through the operation of any one of them. Any serious strike, say, in the coal industry would probably put an end to expectations of an immediate return to the Cold Standard, while equally it would bring to an end all hopes of an early trade revival. At the same time it is conceivable that those very circumstances might drive money once more into the Gilt-edged market and occasion a rise in investment stocks.