Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 39, 16 June 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

THE COST OF WAR. TWO OR THREE MILLIONS DAILY flNTTlcn ABSODIATIOM. (Received 11).Jo if. 111.) London, Juiife In. .Mr Asquith, in moving the vote of oAO millions, emplntsisecl the need of national co-operation and concentration on a single purpose lor prosecuting the war to a successful issue. The daily expenditure during the last financial year was about one million and a-halt daily, while the expenditure from Ist April to 12th June was £2,660,000. It is estimated that the new vote in September will be at the rate of three millions daily.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. London, June 15. | Lord Cromer, in a letter to the 'l'iines supports the abolition of the trade union rules in connection with the output of munitions. Undue profits should be curtailed in the interests of trade unions, which at a time oi national crisis are diametrically antagonostic to the interests of the com--1 inunity. Lord Cromer a proved of the suggestion that the Government I might pay men’s subscriptions to a . union during the temporary suspension of trade unionism.

The Daily News states the trades union representatives ■ agreed to the employment of unskilled labor, including women, for the manufacture of munitions where advisable, despite trade union regulations. The fresh vote of £250,000,000 asked for to-day brings the total to £862,000.000 since the outbreak of war. Mr McKenna, on the second reading of the Finance Bill to provide for the quarter’s expenditure, ed some form of borrowing shortly. Five thousand miners at the Merthyr and ,Rhonda collieries have stuck as a protest against the employment of non-unionists. Times and Sydney Sun Service. Socialists have issued a manifesto calling for national industrial mobilisation. The manifesto says the motto must he “All in.” 'there was a sensation at the tidal at Glasgow of Robert Irvingdale and Henry Wilson, partners in the wellknown firm of Jacks and Co., iron merchants. It was stated that the firm sold Krnpps 7500 tons of iron ore stored at Rotterdam in August and September. Mr Eonar Law was at one time a partner in the'firm.