20 OCTOBER 1923, page 1

Sir Montague Barlow Said On Tuesday That The Three Direct

lines of Government effort were (1) unemployment insurance; (2) trade development; (3) relief schemes. New expenditure was to be undertaken to the extent of about £50,000,000 on......

* * * * Sir William Joynson-hicks Then Mentioned That

there was believed to be about a million and a-half tons of iron and steel in the Ruhr which were ready to be dumped in this country as bankrupt stock. In his opinion the......

We Will Take, First, The Speech Of Sir William Joynson-

Hicks. He said that, ultimately, he looked to the Dominions for a great increase of trade, but that could not come at once, and in the meantime work must be found at home. The......

He Appealed To The Trade Unions In The Building Trade

to reconsider the rejected plan for admitting 50,000 ex-Service men into the industry. Housing was being hindered by an acute shortage of, skilled men. There is, we fear, no......

News Of The Week.

T HE Government are gradually adding to their pro- gramme for the relief of unemployment. Although we are not satisfied that the task of overhauling the nation's industrial......