WEMBLEY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18371, 2 May 1925, Page 13

WEMBLEY.

♦ . THE IMPERIAL ASPECT

ADDRESS BY DUKE OF YORK.

(av CABLE— Pr.lC3s ASSOCIATION—COT VP.IGUT.'I (Sh-DSEY "Sex"' Service.) LONDON, April 30. The Duke of York, presiding at the Exhibition Commissioners' luncheon tothe British Overseas Press, described Wembley as «a great university of the greatest human organisation of all time. The 192-5 Exhibition had shown fresh aspects of Imperial life, and he was confident of its overwhelming success. The Empire, the Diike said, was a great firm, of which the heads should consult as often as possible. The Exhibition would prove the best form of business consuftation. "Wembley was designed to enable Britain always to possess some kind of permanent nucleus of Imperial education. He did not suggest an annual full-dress Empiro Exhibition, as "Wemblev would close definitely in 1025, but more data would then be available as to the best means of establishing a permanent common centre to study the problems of Empire development. Mr J. H. Thomas, in proposing the toast of the .Press, said, "The Empire is passing through transition stages and God knows what, the future will be. Those like myself who are in closest contact with the problems and difficulties are more apprehensive than anyone is aware of." GUARANTEE BILL. t LABOUR MOTION REJECTED. (seuter's tblegbams.) LONDON, April 30. The Standing Committee of the House of Commons, dealing with the Bill increasing the Government guarantee in connexion with the "Wembley Exhibition to £1,900,000 lejected a Labour amendment compelling fair wages to be paid to persons employed at tlie Exhibition by the operation of a fair wage clause and providing for an industrial court t„> decide any dispute. Sir John Cunliffe-Lister disclaimed hostility to tho amendment, but sailit was .impossible to aeeept it at prer sent, owing to the conditions of some contracts which contained a fair wage clause, and it was included wherever new contracts were made. The Government had gone out of its way to approach the Colonial authorities to get them to take "the same course.