is
taken
from
one
of today’s
pews-
papers,
‘‘Chamber
of
Commeree”’
a
sHhecial
meeting
of
the
council
of
this
Chamber
was
convened
at
11
a.
m.
vesterday
to
counsider
the
gquestion
of
sugar
preference
and
to
send
a
teie-
oram
to the three
leaders
of
the
House
of
UCommnons
viz
Right
Hon.
Rumsay
Mac
Donald,
Rt
Hon.
H.
H.
A:quith
Right Hun,
Stanley
Baldwin,
after
some
discussion
ilt was
agreed
to forward
the
following telegram.
‘‘Barbados
Cham-
ter
of
Commerce
and
Agricultural
Queiety
express
conildent
hope
in event
your fortzing
Governmett.
ycar
AMinis-
try will
carry
out
recommerndaticus
jor
imperial
prefererece
put
torward
at Lo
verial
Conferenee.
Consider
'le
dopt-
jon ihis poliey essential
to
gevera
wel-
fare o
1l e uncient
loyal colony.
Demerzra,
Jany.
Yth.—Sir
¢ rthur
Everett
“hipley 0.
B.
E.
Chairn.:n
of
the
governing
body
of
the
In
senial
College
of
trepical
agriculture
[rini-
dad lesterday
deiivered
to
a large
ani
representative
audience
a lecture
on the
aims
of the
coilvge
und
ampealed
for
a
«ub
idy
fiomn
Ihis
eolony
towards
the
funds
of
ths
imstiwt:on.
Mr.
Aspinal
C
M. G. Secretary
W.
L.
C. also
spoke.
Hon.
B
E.
Brassington
M.
U,
8
in
proposing
a
vote of
thacks
said
no
ore
would
deny
that
it.was
of
great
im-
portance
that
this
colony
if possible
should
help
in
supporiing
the
colleze
although
he
could
not
be
too
optimistic
as
te the extent
he was
prepared
to voie
in
favour esa
small
sum
that
would
not increase
taxation in the colory.
London, Jan.
Bth. —lln a great
demon-
stration
in the Albert Hall tonight,theIa-
bour Party celebrated
its victory in the
re-
cent general elections and pledged its unit-
ed
efforts
in
constructive
attempts
to-
wards
the rehatilitation
of Great
Eritain
Europe
and the world at large,
if ealled
upon,
as
seems
certain
within
ten
days,
to ussume
Lhe task of governing the Unit-
ed Kisgdom.
'‘We have been
in the battle
and
we have brought back
the trophies,”’
<aid Mr. Ramsay
MacDonall,
the
party
leader
ard principal
speaker,
as
he
turn-
ed
to
the
plaiferm
behind
him
wheve
most
of the
192 Labour
members
of
the
House
of
Commons
were
seated.
The
great doned
batl
echned
and
re-echoed
with the cheers
of
neariy
ten
thousand
voices.
As the meeting
progressed
the
enthusias.ic rank and file of the
Labour-
ites
cheered
themselves
hoarse
when
election battles
were reteld
aud
the
re-
presentatives
of Labour presented
them-
selves.
However,
on the whole,
the
dom-
inan
spirit of the leaders
in
their
publie
utterances
since
the
elections
wis
pot
one o¢ jubilation
but
of
seriovs
roaliza-
tion
of
the
heav)’
responsibiiities
that
will confront the party
when
it iverits
what
Mr.
MacDonald
term-d,
‘‘the
bankrupt
estate’’
es
the present
Gov-
ernment.
For
a
meeting
of
what
has
been
considered
In
the
past
as
Great Britain’s
revolutionary
party,
to-
S
5
=BtX
AN 15
nitht's
demonstration
was
a
tame
affair.
It bevar
with the
singing
of the
“Marseillaise’’ and
Wicsed
with
a
o
voci-
ferous
renditicn
of
the
"'Red
Flug’'.
The labour adherents
failed, among
other
things,
to chant
or sing the Natiornal
An-
them.
Nevertheless,
the
speakers
in-
dulged in little radical
talk, and made
no
predictions of the approaching
millenium.
In
fact they
gave
every
evidence
that
Labour
does
not
intend
to turn
England
upside
down.
Mr.
Mae Donald
uvieaded
with the
press
for {airness
it
iabour
as-
sumed
power.
Th: erowds
cheered
ap-
provipngly while
he mild.y reproved
about
fifty reporters,
grouped
avound
the table
beiore
him,
for their
reporiorial
short-
comings
in chronieiing
Labour
news,
and
said,- ‘Icapital
leaves
the
country,
it
wiil
be
because
of
the
punic
mongers,
and
if Parhament
is
blown
up,
meta-
phorically spreakine,
the
headguarters
of
the
modern
Guy
Fawkes
wili be
in
the
offices
of the
newspaper
conbines,
nos
at
Jabour
headquarters
iln
Eceleston
Square.’””
The
only
opportunity
for
a
deimmonstration
on
the
part of the Radicals
with Russian
leanings
came
when
Mr, Mac
Donald
sa'd
that
one
of the
first acts
of
Labour
wouid
be
to end
tne
pompos
{okly
of
aloofness,
Scattered
shouts
of
aj-
vroval burst
from
widely separated
sec
tions
of the erowd,
but
it was nothing
o
compare
with that
ovation later accorded
Miss
Margacet
Bondiieid,
a
firail
lhttle
woman,
whose
voice
earried
to the
lott.-
est
galieries of the buldings
She
seem-
«d
to toweh
the
hearss
of the whele
audi-
ence
and everybodyv
there
joined in
uap-
planding
her
simpie
recitation
of
the
story
of “‘a
man
named
Jesus’’.
whose
creed
was
(ke
Dbrotherhood
of
man.
The
lLabour
Party,
she
sa'd.
wanted-
to
walk
in
lis
footsteps.
In
addition
to
Mr. MacDonald,
who had
a
tremend-
ous
receptivn,
the
speakers
acluded,
John
Rebert
Clynes,
James
Henry
Tnomas.,
Robert
Smiliie,
George
Lans-
bory and
others
who are
likely
to ngure
as
olinisters
in Great
Britain’s
first
La-
bour
Government.
Declaring
the
first
great
duty would
be
to
establish
peace
amd
create
conditions
of peace,
Mr.
Maec
Donald
declared.
“‘There
is
not
a
capl-
tal city today but contains
embers
which
a
frezh
biowmng
.wind
will scatter
over
the
inflammabie
material
1
Europe
and
start
a
new
war.
My
parity
de-
sires
to
enter
office
with
a
broad
foot
and
a
big
heel
to stamp
upon
every
one
of these
embers.
Whether
we
are
in
office
six
months,
or
siX
years,
we
are
resolved
that
there
shail
not
be
in
any
corpers
of
the
world
fires
which
can
be
fanned
into
great
flames
to
in-
vo: e the worid
in
pew wars.””
He then
referred
to
the
deplorable
misunder-
stunding
hetween
France
and
Great
bri-
tain
“'pin-prick
irritations
unworthy
of
both
countrizs
and
whieh
do
not
Issue
froon minds of the good
peop:e
of either
couatry’’.
It
would
be
a good thing,
to
put them
all behind
us and establish
with
France,
Germany,
Italy, Russia
and
all
other countries
ap understarding
without
the rivalry of military forees,
but
an
un-
ders
aading
of human
mennuil
women
baving
no
cause
for enmity.
|
believe
that a Labour Party
ceccupving
Downiny
Street
and
staffing
our
government
Is
the one
thing
required
to give strength
to the morally
courageous
and
power
to
the
foreces
of
all
sections
of
Isurope.”’
Asserting
that
he would
use
the Laague
ot
Nations
fer this purpose
to the
utmost
Mr.
MaeDonald
referred
to Russia,
de-
clarine.
*The
pompous
folly of stand-
-Ine aleof
{rom the
Russian
Governmenpt
will
be
ended’’.
He
explained
that
he
would
reeoznize
Russia,
not
because
ho
agreed
with what
the
Russian
Goveru-
ment
had
done,
burt
because,
as
he
ex-
pressel
it¢, 'l want
trade,
1
want
nego-
tintions,
! want
settlement
from
the
coasts
of Japan
to the coasts
of
lreland.
If
1 have
to protest
against
what
is being
d e
in Afghanistan,
how
can
[ protest
uniess
[ possesses
channels
to
use
lor
my protest.’’
NEwW
YORK, Jan.
Tth.
Fiour, (hard winter clears
§4.90.
o
hard
winter strajohis
£5.50
Meal, Kilrdried per 100 pounds
$2. 22
New Season’s
Pork
per
varrei a37.00.
Heavy
Mess
Pork per
bri. $26
00
Sugar—Crystals
maximum
per
100
Ibs.
$7 03
Mclasses
Sugar
89
maximum
6.00,
RUM
SWELLS
TIDE
uF
CRIME
IN
1. 8. DAVUGHERILY BAYS.
Washingtoa,
D.
C..
December
4.
—An
inerease
of
15,839
cases
for violation
o
the prohibition
act
was
noted
1o the
an
nual repor.
ot
Attorney
General
Uaugh
erty,
made
to Congress
vesteoday.
There
were
46.479
actions
disposed
of
and
27.116
are
still pending,
mdiecating
thai
the
Federal
Courts
are
flonded
with
booze
cases,
which
torm
a
large part of
the department’s
work.
“The
most
gigantic
eriminal
problem
the United States
ever
faced
is lum sniug-
oling.””
said
Mrs. Mabel
Walker
Wilie-
brandt,
Assistant
Attorney
General
in
charge
of pronibition and
tax cases,
“and
our coast
guard
is
pot
adequate
to
pro-
teet
the Pacific
and
A lantie coasts.™’
More
than
$7.000,090
worth
of
rum
has
been
smuzgled
nro
this
country
from
Nassau
alone
since
January
last,
ic
is estimated.— Daly News.
NAVY MEN
DROWNED.
Two navy
men,
Norman
Vreeland,
ol
Belleville, and Leonard ,Crain,
of
Ga.va,
111,
were overcome
with pasnline
fumes
and
drowned
in
a
foOT
of
water
as
the -
val
torpedo
station
at
Dahlgred,
Va,
Vrecland
became
unconscicus
while
working
in
a
pit and
Crain
went
to his
aid and
was
overcome
also.—T%hr
Path-
finaer.