The Unemployment Debate One would have iked rather more, in the telegraphic report, the debate on unemployment, of the grounds on Which the Opposition Based. their attack on the: Governtion's charge sheet, no real just ication exists for mulcting the traveller in some of the sums he has to pay before he can enter a country. A visitor to any land almost proves an advantage to that ment's unemployment policy. For on the face of it, it seems rather mard to criticize the Government for not yet having realized: the fnillennium which some of its discourage travel, as the present scale of visas undoubtedly does to some extent, is a policy both mistaken and near-sighted.
Supporters have been - promising when Labour should get into power. Me. MacDonald's schemes of State works are interesting, especially 35 Yegards afforestation, though thet hardly the sort of work on which put untried hands with success. Meanwhile the only practical cure {for unemployment. is, improvement of world conditions and. harder Work, For instance the way. it Which the bricklayers are sticking tip the country. undoubtedly reac' til found: a. three-roomed cottage, ye ave told, cannot now be buile for Tess than £500 whereas before thy wear it could certainly have been pat for #160. "Cent of materia will jat-alone explain the difference We donot think this paper can bs Accused of being unsympathetic to Labour, but there ina good desi ofa. very rotten spirit stil prevalent for which Capital cannot together be blamed. Writing in the Weekly Dispatch" on foreign com petition, Mr. W. Lo Hichens, chair-rman of Cammell, Laird & Ca, Tam Lune to hing that in sone {hedagte te which other countries te ney was developed The Shanghai Exhibition Truly the ways of the Chinese frequently are most extraordinary. For months Mr. Bena has been freely advertising his idea of an (ternational Exhibition for Shanghai and has been doing everything tone man could be-expected to do in order to find out what support Ihe might expect and whet opposition, if any. He was not 50 sanguine that he did not imagine there would not be a single drop of cold water poured pen the project and it was common know-edge that some forcixners of standing were inclined to be sceptical as to the possibilities of success, being. principally impressed with the tightness of money at the moment and realizing that a very great deal of money would have to be expended before anything at all came in. However, Chinese support to the very" fullest extent was counted upon, for, after all, the biggest advantage would be with the Chin-fes. Not a single word to reverse this opinion ever was heard, even at the joint meeting, when the views of all parties were asked for. Now comes the extraordinary announcement that the Chinese Government "goods Te'ia's master of common' knowledge cheaply enough.
nat "nies the fittle"or" no profes lay, at any" rate, ina Wu reward that new own through the loss Surely therefore, Labour has everyainge te' gulp by foining with Capital ich ary In order to find. frank inquiry. as to th long ago had decided upon a World Exhibition, to be run entirely by. the Chinese and to be held at Shanghai, and an official notification has been published to the effect that, in view of this decision, no Chinese support can be given' to Mr. Bena's scheme.
That, presumably, puts an end to the whole business, but one cannot help wondering what sort of an exhibition it will be that is run by a Government that cannot find sufficient money with which regularly to pay any of its servants, from gatekeepers to Ambassadors. Mi Bena and his associates very frankly admitted that they could not hope to run an exhibition without the
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