... THE GOLD STANDARD. “Complaints have often been heard that the resumption of the gold standard was premature. Looking hlci over the course of events both here and abroad the relative price movements here and in America, and the wide extent to which our ...

... competition with those countries in which further inflation was resorted to. The report points out that the return to the gold standard meant a fall in prices, which was tantamount to an increase of wages all round, and it makes the following important economic ...

... importance to all those engaged in industry. It is now generally recognised that under the automatic application of the gold standard customary before the war, changes in tte supply and value of gold played a bighly important part in bringing about the ...

... over four months on an agenda covering 21 items, and agreed reports and memoranda have been drawn up on currency, the gold standard, victimisation, trade union recognition and rationalisation. These are lkeing placed before the full conference for ra ...

... and joint committee reported progress. The sub-committee have drawn up agreed reports and memoranda on currency, the gold standard, vietimisation, trade union recognition and nationalisation. These are to be submitted to the Trades Union Congress at ...

... unless | hand them over to Mr Wheatley when he becomes Chanecellor of the Exchequer.” (Laughter). He was in f r of the gold standard because he could see no alternativ, to i, but the banks were still under ihe old tashoved and archaie idea 'nat it was ...

... R '; 61, Bid; 52, Gnu; 54, Ree; 56, Tete; 57, Once; 60, Lop; 62, Son. THE GOLD STANDARD, ] 31 Countries Return in Five Years. The recent adoption by Bolivia of the gold standard calls attention to the long list of countries which have re-established their ...

... brokerage house of Dominick and Dominick. This. firm’s bulletin thus lists the thirty-one countries which have returned to the gold standard in the past five years:— ! 1027, Australia Denmark Austria New Zealand ludia Cotombia South Africa FEcuador Albania Arzentina ...

... the smaller class of income-tax pavers they claimed to have lightened a burden very muen fel:. The restoration of the gold standard was intended deliberately to effect a reduction in the cost of living. It was his claim, made on the highest authority ...

... (Laughter). “When we consider trade depression, and hear all sorts of learned arguments about economic conditions, the gold standard, and one thing and another, I cannot help thinking that perhaps an even more important factor in produciny this state of ...

... miners were locked out that the working classes came to the aid of the miners.” ‘ Sir Oswald blamed the return of the gold standard for ruining the export trade. Mr Lloyd George advanced that argument, but forgot he started it in 1920. It culminated in ...

... materials. At the bidding of the greay banks the Government determined to push forward its deflation policy. or return to the gold standard, or to raise the value of British money in gomparison with foreign money. At first the coal was exported as before and ...