NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 28 March 1925
28 MARCH 1925
At a formal sitting of the House of Lords the Consolidated Fund (No. 1) Bill was passed through all its stages, and received the Royal Assent, along with the British Sugar Subsidy, Trade Facilities, and other Acts.
The second reading of Mr Stephen Walsh’s Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Bill was defeated in the House of Commons by 203 to 143.
Mr Ramsay MacDonald, speaking in London, referred to the condition of British industry, and said that all our trouble today arose from the economic ignorance of those who made the Treaty of Versailles.
At a joint conference of masters and men in the shipbuilding trade the situation was reviewed with reference to the recent orders placed in Germany, and to foreign competition generally. The employers made suggestions for a joint investigation into costs inside and outside the industry.
After a conference lasting fifteen hours, the dispute in the London printing and bookbinding trade was settled.
Lord Rawlinson, Commander-in-Chief in India, is dead.
Signor Mussolini, in a brief reference to the Protocol, said that he had always considered it not as a means of bringing peace, but as a well-thought-out machine for bringing about war.
Our Ottawa correspondent, in a review of Canadian affairs, refers to the Petersen shipping project, Church Union, and the liquor question.
The text of the Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Iraq has been issued. No contributions are to be made by Britain towards the cost of the Iraq army, and similarly the Iraq Government will not contribute to the cost of the Imperial garrison.
