IMPERIAL LIFE

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 181, 2 May 1925, Page 7

IMPERIAL LIFE

FRESH ASPECTS SHOWN AT WEMBLEY ' BEST FORM OF BUSINESS CONSULTATION By Telegraph—Prbss Association. Cofyeight. London, April 30. The Duke of .York, presiding at a luncheon given by the Exhibition Commissioners to British overseas Press representatives, described Wembley as a great university of the greatest human organisation of all time, lhe 1925 Exhibition would show fresh aspects of our Imperial life, and he was confident of its overwhelming success. The Empire was a fireat firm, the heads of which should consult each other as often as possible. The Exhibition would provide the best form of business consultation. Wembley was designed to enable Britain always to possess some kind of permanent nucleus of Imperial education. He did not suggest the annual holding of a full-dress Empire Exhibition, which would close definitely in 1925; but more data then be-available as to the best means of establishing a permanent common centre for the study of problems of Empire development. Mr. J. H. Thomas said the Empire was passing through a transition stage, and God knows, he said, what the future would be. 1 hose who, like himself, were in the closest contact with the problems and difficulties, were more apprehensive than anyone else.—Sydney “Sun” Cable. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE WAGES OF EXHIBITION WORKERS London, April 30. The Standing Committee of the House of Commons, dealing with the Bill inicrenfiticf the Government guarantee for the Wemblev Exhibition to £1,900,000, reiected a Labour amendment to compel fair wages to be paid to persons emnloved in connection with the Exhibition bv the operation of a fair wanes clause, and providing for an industrial Court to decide any dispute. Sir T. Cunliffe-Lister (President of the Board of Trade) disclaimed hostility to the amendment, but said it was impossible to accent it at present, ow-in-r tn the conditions in some of the contracts which contained a fair wage clause. Such a clause was included wherever new contracts were madev The. Government had gone_ out of its wav to armroach the colonial authorities to "Ct them to take the same course.—Reiter.