Abstract

A Report on British Industry

This article literally appraises the report "The Conditions and Prospects of British Industry and Commerce." During his brief period of office as Prime Minister in 1924. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald appointed a non-party committee to inquire into the conditions and prospects of British industry and commerce with special reference to export trade and to the relations between employers and employed in matters of remuneration and other causes of unrest and dispute. After five years of continuous inquiry the elaborate survey of this committee has just been condensed into the shape of a First Report that may, so far as the main facts are concerned, be taken as a reliable presentation of the salient features of our present economic predicament.