NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 23 November 1923

23 NOVEMBER 1923

Neville Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, addressed female unionists in London, said that tariffs must increase employment and this would mean an increase in wages. He said that high wages would not necessarily mean higher costs and it was possible to have higher wages and lower costs at the same time.

Whilst speaking in the Reichstag, Dr. Stresemann announced that the German Government had been offered by foreign financiers a credit of at least a milliard gold marks on condition that the present Government remained in power.

Licensing Act polls took place at Crieff, Dingwall and Thurso.