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Evening Star, Issue 19666, 20 September 1927, Page 5

There has been too much talking against profits (said Sir Arthur Balfour, in a speech reported in the ‘Sheffield Daily 'telegraph’). 11 you want to have well-run concerns, kept up to date, to look after its workpeople and pay high wages, you have got to make profits; you aro not going to do it on losses. These people with brains are the people we want, and if we don’t get them wo shall go down. What we want in this country is more people with the capacity, genuine courage, and organising ability to make profits. This cry against the people who make profits is ridiculous. The only wav you aro going to improve tlic lot of the working man is by having in business sufficient profits to renew plant and machinery, and do things for the workpeople instead of cutting down because you cannot make ends meet at Ijjft year, end,, - -