UNION PURCHASE OF NATIONAL FACTORIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 109, 1 February 1919, Page 7

UNION PURCHASE OF NATIONAL FACTORIES

SUGGESTION B.YSIR-EIiTC GEDDES. . : London, January 29, . Sir Eric Geddes, addressing the Employers' Alliance in London, suggested that the unions 6hould buy the national factories and run tjieiu.. The Government, would view the proposition sympa-thetically.—Aus,-N.Z. Cable Assn.' - THE ARGENTINE STRIKES ■BUENOS AIRES ISOLATED FOR TWENTY-SIX DAY?. ' 1 ' (Rec. January '31, 8.5 p.m.) Buenos, Aires, January-29. The city has been'isolated for twentysix days. ' The port strike prevents liners entering the harbour. Forty-nine vessels which have anchored outside will probably be forced to proceed to Monte Video: The cigar and cigarettes workers, have struck,-paralysing that industry— Reuter. •' VR-ec. February 1, 0.20 a.m.), , ■ ■ New York, January. 29. ■■.Dispatches from Buenos Aires state that tho marine workers had decided to continue the strike indefinitely. Seven thousand five hundred tobacco workers and 1500 furniture i movers have also joined the'strike.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. / AUSTRALIAN LABOUR CONFERENCE • SUBJECTS FOB CONSIDERATION: Sydney, January 31. " The agenda paper for the Labour ConfertCice includes proposals for a thirtyhour working week, the prohibition' of the. liquor traffic; the abolition, of the •State: Parliaments, and that Australia shall enter no future wars overseas-with-out taking.a referendum of the people.— Tress Assn.