Lord MELCHETT : The Rationalisation of Industry
EARLIER in the year a series of talks on 'Finance in the Modern World' gave listeners a chance to hear the financial problems of today discussed by experts of the first rank. This evening Lord Melchett opens a new series on the industrial tendencies of the present and the future. He himself is, of course, one of the outstanding figures in the most Olympian circles of British industry ; as Sir Alfred Mond he carried through the enormous amalgamation that produced Imperial Chemical Industries (and, incidentally, one of the biggest buildings in London), and he is chairman of that, and of a great number of chemical and colliery companies. He stands for trustification on the largest scale and the scientific control of industry. Ho will be succeeded in this series by speakers so different in outlook as Mr. Walter M. Citrine , Mr. H. D. Henderson, Major Walter Elliot , Miss Lynda Grier , and Sir Herbert Samuel.