London and Thereabouts.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 9, 5 October 1907, Page 4

London and Thereabouts.

(Prom our own Correspondents.) ;■ FROM THAMES TO CLYDE. '''. ";',' .;..:' '."vtqhdoh, Augir.t 23. Less than twelvemonths will soo the ' removal from', Millwall to Scotstp;.vii,.on,the Clydp.,,qf the well-known : shipbuilding and'''.engineering firm, Messrs.' YaiToVhiuT'Co. The new ; yard,at .Sc , otstpwn.,'is now practically ,finished ~. and work is proceeding there in all departments. In an interview 'wijth'a, London News Agency ' reporter, Mr. c Yarrow stated they •had i'madc''arrangements that tho ■closing, of the jiiiljvall works should not, bo suddenly caried out, but should be gradual,'' in-order that so far as possible." distress..through unemployment.might, bo avoided. Employees • of :the firm w"!ios'o services they valued "most''would" be taken to Scotland, an da great many of tho men would find it tbtheir-'ad'vaiitago to go down and work for the firm on the .■Clydo. l l -"For a man who has beon long engaged in the shipbuilding trade," Mr. Yarrow,continued, "London will'cease to offer any opportunity, because , shipbuilding will bo looked, upon as. an' extinct industry, or nearly, so, oh the Thames. Many of diir men have' already left Poplar aiid gone down, to our now works. One of the principal reasons why we do hot' move at once, although the "works in quite-.ready, "is because if we moved suddenly it would chuso great distress in Poplar,'while if we move gradually and ''(he 11 workpeople'.Know what is about '.to' happen,' "they'can' arrange their .plans accordingly.' If they do not desire to leave London, they have 'ample'notice and, opportunity to look for' work elsewhere'.'' 'As"to the reason why the Thames was being forsaken for the Clyde, Mr. Yarrow said:—."'The cost of production on the Clyde for our class of work wo estimate" at from 10 to 12 ; per cent., less'"than .it is on the Thames. ''.A small proportion of that "would "lie' "represented by the. difference in the rates., Tho high rates a't'Poplar'are biio.pf the causeso, but by no means one of the most important, causes for. our-removal." ,Concluding,.MrjiiYarrow said:—" I believe 'that the people in the North of all classes. are;!!moro industrious and more earnest an. 'their work than .are those in.London/' That is found in every country; Imore or less the same, the capital, generally boing devoted to politics alidl.to tho residences of the mor cwcalthy: classes. Industry finds . its";centre outside the capital." . ', .;■: r.\ /SlttN-piN.' ; A' -writer in,'' The Scotsman," in the. course of ..aij. .article tracing the "rise and progress,;of ,'the movement, in | .Ireland Known/as, Sinn Fein (pro'hibimced'.'Shin.n.'Faiu;, says:— . '" " Tho'Smli. Fein 'policy is an adaption of the-' uioth'pds of the Hungarian Nationalist leatiy.te'.. Shortly stated, it was a policy'.of .'national boycott. '"About eighteen niq;iths ago there appeared ",;i uDublin .'a ..volumo of 100 1 pages; entitled ' Tho. Resurrection of 'liuiigaryi. A;' Parallel -for Ireland.' "It "was scattered "broadcast over Ire.iandJ It >vas rfrp'm, the pen of Mr. . | Arthur' or was, as''sociatjod 'with..,tha6,,'sonicwhat notor- ' i ious l 'j'6urnal, 'tli'o Irishman"; .indeed,. I'uTfdersta'hd, tho subject matV,ter. pf ~th'(!, bpplc appeared first as a of articles in that paper.. The ''writer 'Bketch'dtl': history of the ' .'struggle' glider. Dpali' for political in.|t(lep,undij;i,ei;,t ~..l n jid/,'urged that tho ippljcy in its con'.test with Austria, between 1840 and 1567-was, 'in essence, tho policy w w,hich, ought,. t,p ,b,0,;., followed in lre- . ~land. ; IH |:!?ixty;,years ago,' he says, ' Iluiigafy i realised that tho pblitical 'centre p,ftlic'.nVtioii'must be within i .the, nation.. Ireland realise; , Shis.,obvious : .tnsi, and tuni3 hoi ~back. oUj'Lpndpn,, tho parallel may.be , t'q'pmpleted,! "■'.,,',- '.„'..',',!■ ' ... ".'..'ou may y,:ell c rub your eyes,' he that -Hungary never once sent a Parlia- ; inpntary party, tp,,yienna to fight on . ~tho llppr. of,,tho £{qusse for Homo Rule, ; never, once ;admit-Jt-cd the right oi ,:A\istria to rule- over her, never or.ee „protonded to be, : ' loyol' to the p.owei . ,i that,, had .-smitten her, never ' once , jheld iiulignatipii .mpctings and re- . solutionjsed .- and ; ; fifed strong ad-jectives-—and .-.'..yet, '.notwithstanding, ~forced, Austria to,.her. knees, and : : wrung from her, unwilling hands the .free-. .Constitution .which has . made •Hungary -the ipowor.ishe is. to-day. ■ :,•■■ ". -.Unqucstionally./! the wid circula:latipn,of this book/ha 3 done much tc ..sprpa.d Sinii.Fcin.., /flic leaders of the . :,mpv.einqii,t.ißcek. to : pursuo much the ; "Dame-policy •-towards Britain that • .Hungary" pursued -w towards Austria, . .Refusing;to reepgnisp the Union, thei; ■ go.'l.bacls, for'the..: present, at at 'ovonts,"to tho -Irish Constitution ol 1783 ■ why Sinn Fein ! insists; on ~the-. Parliamentary abstention of-.lrish mombers is that sc ■ long-as Ireland sends representatives ■ ito 'Westminster k she i give's counter;- . ,ancc to,th6.view,,tliat she is ' constitutionally governed.': This Sinn Foil: ■vehemently denies-."'We have,' sayi ■ Mr: Buhner. Eobson, 'an old, ar -offete, a-useless.Parliamentary party who. betray the cause of Ireland, re- •; cognise .the ■English'- Government bj ■Esilngh 'st'-arelogianc etaoiu shrdlnr goinsand-taking- their seats in-the English Parliament, swearing then ■ oatli-'of' allegianco ;t'o tho King . oi .: England,;and pretending to legislate for Ireland.'. 'There must bo an one •to this, it'is-'argued. And then ■must bean ondf'also, it is said, ol empty threatening,-brag, and genera 'tall talk.'. Sinn Fein, according t( another of its leading exponents, i: "ti negation of the policy of howlinj ■at England:'.'"' ";•"'•• : '■'■ .income-tax''lncidence. '■ It has been left-to Mr. Asquith ,t< ■establish it as an iaxiom that an in-come-tax of one shilling in tho pount • miry bo regarded as normal in time; of peace, 'The idea, behind this is th< ■R'aelichl ideal that all rcsponsibilitio; should accumulate on property ant income that ar cdircctly taxable while indirect taxation should b( abolished. The late Mr. Gladstone on tho other hand'hoped to bo able to abolish tho income-tax altogether savo its utilisation's a war-tax. The popular notion is that the Income-tn: i is chiolly paid byit-hoso who can wcl ■ affort it, or, in other words, "that, i; i falls mainly upon' the .wealthy From tables, included in the fiftietl ■ annual report of tile Inland Revonui 1 Commissioners'; • jiist- issued, uothim ; can be clearer"tilaii" tliat those con ; tributing most;' proportionately, ti; ; the Exchequer bythis tax, are not the rich people,'hut the moderate!.! [ well-to-do'profcssional and shop-keep ' ing classes. 'In : ino6-7 the tax re > alisfid'close'Upon'3s ! ,'inillions sterling i This vast sum was paid into the pub ; lie chest by 370.450 "persons,' . " 59.1G4 firms, 32,022 public coumanips • lo|oo4 local authorities, and 503,07; - employees—a ■ total of 084,123 asses ■ able parties.'' •■'O'r.'tho wliole,Tnconie ! 'tax of the United' Kingdom, with it; " 43 million' inhabitants, falls on los: ' than a ' million incomes. Of tin ' '" emple.ves,"'!vl(o make up more thai I a half of tliat number, the r.iajorit' earn between £200 :.nd £300; tin

limit is £000. jPcrsons canning loss than £300 a year represent close, on •K) millions of taxable income, or very nearly one half of the whole personal taxable incomes of the country. Thus, in as far as the tax affects the individual, it is levied, to an extent not generally known, on the hard-won earnings of the poorer middle classes. A COSTLY STRIKE. Once more free from martini law Belfast-Ms at' work again. But who pays the piper? The "Standard's'' correspondent computes the cost in these terms :— The strike has terminated most opportunely, for nearly all the great toxtle concerns in the city were on the verge of being obliged to ciose down their works by reason of their inability to obtain either raw material or tho manufactured article with sufficient expedition, whilst noither could bo shipped away rapidly enough. It is known that many of these city merchants have been hard hit financially, and the aggregate loss to the city is almost beyondcomputation. .Even before the rioting began, the claims for malicious injuries alone amounted to £30,000. 'When to this is added tho dead loss . which the trade of tho city has suffered—and part of it will be' permanent—an enormous figure is reached. The statistics of tho port for a single fortnight, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, show a falling off of £50, 000. To all this there has to be added the cost of importing 0000 . military, and maintaining them, plus the enormous damage done in two nights rioting.