The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-11-13

past IT, Every morning a fresh mass
or flowers is spread at its base. 1t
/. ls 10 remain there through history, in
memory OF England's dead.
/ Up and down the streets painters
are swinging on their scaffolding.
Frightening walls of buildings almost
black under four and a half years of
! London smoke.
At night, peace's bright lights
bright in comparison--have driven the
deep wartime night from the city In
place of the closely hooded afraid
ilanterns-strung at long intervals
down the streets, like jack-o' lanterns
down country lane on Halloween
brilliant arc lights last night flooded
i Kings Way with light
\ big moon in the sky no longer
spells air raids.
Life is getting back to the every
day.
1 Menus. year ago shrunk TO war ra-
tions, are bountifGl again. The size
of your steak has to tally with the
size of your purse.
Like changes have been going on
Z throughout the kingdom
Business is again thinking in peace
+ figures. and-in the terms OF the new
era upon England For business
methods have undergone a reforma-
tion since 1914 and even since 1918.
| Trusts. developing from the solidi
Z 6cation of industry required by war
organization, have figured as a dom
inant factor in the British industrial
field since the armistice for the first
time IN English history Compelled
BY the war to pool their resources
the big business men found many COM
mon interests and decided TO continue
the unions
On the advice of its trust commit
tee, investigating the subject since
the armistice. the board of trade this
fail viii ask Parliament to pass an
English Sherman antitrust law.
To labor. the period since the ar
mistiee has brought:
Introduction into Parliament of an
leight-hour day and a minimum wage
bin.
The coal commission. which has al
ready reduced working hours from one
TO. two hours day jim the Black
Country" and slightly increased the
wages (The government rejected
the commissions recommendation to
nationalize minesl.
: Failure of the Whitley councils
system-io!nt control b va council OF
employers and employees. In most in
stances the councils were broken up.
iowng TO inability TO agree on any i'm
portAnt labor question, The cleav-
age was always the same. all the en-
ployer members on one side. the union
members on the other One of the
best informed labor authorities il.
England told the United Press that
the years trial had shown to labor 5
satisfaction that joint control is inn
practicable under private ownership.
The big railway strike in October
was another illustration of the new
million citizens stepped forward
over night and volunteered to ''carry
on" in the railwaymen's palces. so
the country need not suffer unduly.
London had the Unprecedented specta-
Gle OF ears and marquises in porters'
garb tundling trunks around the sta
tions Meanwhile, 5co.0 .00o men quit
work for more than a week. yet hardly
a single act of violence was commit
ted
Both sides apparently learned their
lesson from the experience. Both
claim a gain.
One of the sadder tasks of the last
year has been finding Jobs for sew
eral hunderd Thousand disabled SOL
tiors.
Two months ago King George ap-
pealed TO every business or industrial
firm in England TO employ at least
one. more IL possible, at jobs they
could do despite their handicap.
The government set an example by
admitting one-armed and one-iegged
men into the fire department and by
using MANNED soldiers when possible
as porters in government buildings.
One hundred thousand OF these Grip
pied soldiers are still idle. according
TO the labor ministry. Fifty thou
sand OF these are in hospitals.
! 1t is estimated about 100000 demob-
iIized soldiers were out of work lasr
month.