In these notes I purposely abstain from dealing with current
events in a party spirit. The removal of the McKenna motor duties in Great Britain is a subject of acrimonious discussion in the Press in this country. On one side we have those who desire the retention of the duties, pointing out that their removal will probably throw out of work many hundreds of thousands of our people. Mr. Morris, the leading British motor manufac- turer, goes so far as to estimate this ultimate total, including allied industries, as one million. On the other hand, those who approve of Mr. Snowden's action point out that no sooner had the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced his intentions than the Goodrich Tyre Company of Ohio, U.S.A., one of the largest concerns of the kind in the world, announced that it had decided to open a factory at Leyland in Lancashire, where it hopes to employ two thousand British workers.
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