Industrial Paralysis – On This Day in 1926

July 31 1926IT is, perhaps, an affront to the amour propre of Six County self-sufficiency to suggest that the north-east corner could possibly learn anything useful from the Free State.Yet despite the fact that the Free State is overwhelmingly agricultural, and that agriculture has suffered at least as severely as any other industry, there is abundant evidence of a new spirit of enterprise and activity across the border.Three large tobacco factories have within the last few years been set up in Dublin by Players, Clarke’s and Wills, and they are giving employment to several hundred workers and contributing largely to the revenues of the state.A number of small industries in confectionery, iron-bed making, cutlery, etc. have also been started.And now comes the news that the great soap firm