10 SEPTEMBER 1921, page 3

It Is Stated By The Daily Mail That The Curtailment

of Dr. Addison's grandiose housing policy has already reduced the cost of building. At the New Year workmen's cottages were estimated to cost £1,200 apiece ; by the end of June......

The Ways Of The Coal Trade Are Mysterious. On Monday,

we were told, the London coal merchants decided that there would be no reduction in the prices of coal this year. On Tues- day it was announced that the prices of coal in......

The Moscow Press, Which Is Of Course Exclusively...

liberty of the Press being a " bourgeois " idea—reveals the split caused by Lenin's open recognition of the necessity of capitalism. The orthodox Pravda complains of " the......

The Trade Unioncongress Was Welcomed To Cardiff On Monday By

the Lord, ayor, himself a railwayman, who frankly warned the members that municipalities could not continue to find work for the unemployed if the men deliberately idled away......

On Monday Afternoon The Trade Union Congress Was Asked By

the National Union of Clerks to set up a Whitley Council for the benefit of the clerks employed by trade unions. An innocent spectator might have supposed that the request would......

Mr. J. H. Thomas, Addressing The Cardiff Railwaymen On...

said that their movement was still hindered by sec- tional and caste differences. Drivers and firemen thought that they were better than the platelayers or labourers. This, of......

Mr. Poulton Commended The New General Council Which Is To

supersede the Parliamentary Committee of the Congress. It - would enable other unions to take " correlative action " if any union was involved in a trade dispute ; it would, he......

The Socialist Councillors Of Poplar, Who Refused To Levy A

rate for the sums due to the County Council and the police, were arrested in batches last week and this week and committed to gaol for contempt of court. Some of them urged......

The Moplah Rising In Malabar Has Been Brought Under Control.

A detachment of the Dorseta had a sharp fight with the rebels at Tirurangadi and captured the ringleader, Ali Musaliar. A .body of insurgents is still at large in the hills and......

We Regret To Record The Death Last Week Of Mr.

Austin Dobson at the age of eighty-one. He was a true man of letters, who within his limited sphere strove earnestly for perfection. His light verse and his prose essays on his......

Bank Rate, 5i Per Cent., Changed From 6 Per Cent.

July 21, 1921 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88L Thursday week, 68f ; a year ago, 86.......