WAR SUPPLIES FOR THE FRONT
LARGE ORDERS PLACED IN CANADA London, March 24. Britain has placed 95,000,000 dollars' worth of war' orders with Canada. Seventy-two companies are supplying shrapnel shells. Many representatives of Canadian manufacturers are now in Britain investigating the possibility of obtaining permanent trade where former sources of supply have been dislocated. COMMANDEERINC THE WAR FACTORIES. SOCIALISM AT ONE STROKE. London, March 24. It is pointed out tlmt tho new law giving the Government power to commandeer factories brings iiito being at a single stroke a fifty years' dream' of Socialism. . Sir Frederick Banbury (Conservative), speaking in the House of Commons, said it would be simpler if thev gave tlift Government, a one-clause Bill declaring: "During the war you can do just as you lilto."
ilr. John Hodge (Labour) declared that the Hill would give ofl'cct to ColIcctivist and Socialistic contentions.
CLYDE ENGINEERS' AWARD. London, March 24. The. Government Arbitration Court has awarded the Clyde engineers a penny an hour extra, and piecoworkerß l(J per cent. . . (Rcc, March 20, 11.5 p.m.) London, March 23. ' Thr Clydr siijiiitort' arc disappointed with their award.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2419, 26 March 1915, Page 5
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184WAR SUPPLIES FOR THE FRONT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2419, 26 March 1915, Page 5
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