28 FEBRUARY 1925
The British Trade Union delegates who visited Russia in November and December last year have published their conclusions in an official report.
The Miners’ Delegate Conference decided to remit back to the districts the proposals for ending or amending the present agreement with the owners.
The Estimates for the Civil Service and Revenue Departments for the forthcoming year show a reduction of £14,216,850.
Mr Alexander Johnston, President of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, said trade to-day was just hanging in the balance. It would take very little either to give it a strong upward movement or equally little to send it back again to its recent disastrous condition. An all-in national insurance scheme was explained to the members by Mr T. T. Broad.
The Association of Economic Biologists discussed warble flies, a Continental barley pest, forestry disease problems, potato culture, and seed-testing practice, at their annual meeting in Edinburgh.
At the annual dinner of the Glasgow Shipowners and Shipbrokers’ Benevolent Association, the president, Mr George Sloan, said that in the case of the North Atlantic the liner trade had been heavily hit by the action of the American Government in instituting a quota beyond which they would not allow immigration.