SHORTEST ON RECORD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2948, 7 December 1916, Page 7

SHORTEST ON RECORD

PRESIDENT WEWB MESSAGE T0 CONGRESS Washington, December 5. t President Wilson has delivered hid Message to Congress. It was the shortest on record, dealing exclusively with domestic affairs, mainly the reguf lation of railway, labour on the basis of an eight-hour day. He advocated an amendment of the law authorising la< bour disputes to be fully ancl publicly investigated before a strict lock-oui( could be lawful. The country, he said, cannot remain exposed to profound inJ dustrial disturbances for lack of addu tional means of arbitration and com ciliation which Congress could easily supply. ■ A proposal whereby working railways should pot be stopped or inter ■( rapted by the concerted action of ganised bodies of men. until a publid investigation was instituted for the puw pose of explaining the whole questioned national opinion involves 110 new prin'-j ciple. The President also recommendeq a law giving greater freedom and com* bination to those engaged in promoting foreign commerce than the. present laws) against monopoly permit.—Reuter. FOODSTUFFS EXPORT EMBARGO.' ■ Washington, December 4. 'At the opening of Congress many, measures were read in connection with; the cost of living, including Mr. J. JV Fitzgerald's proposed embargo on tlio export of foodstuffs. Officials believq that Congress ■is opposed to the om< bargo.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.