GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 35, 5 November 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Toleerarh-Prees Afißociatlop-CopyrlßhO At the municipal elections in Glasgow tho Labourites gained 20 seats, and now hold 41 out of IJ3. Tho Brisbane Waterside Workers' Union has decided to remove the embargo against working overtime on overseas vessels. Sylvia Panklmrst is appealing again?t hor sentence of six months' imprisonmont for publishing seditious articles, and haa been released in JC2OOO bail. Sir James Craig stated in \oio House of Commons that sinco tho armistice tho Admiralty had sold 1231 vessels for i!10,0(10,000, and scrapped G3B. for AMJ.OOO.

A message from Berlin states that Ilia Deutsche Bank has increased its capital by 125 million marks, making it 400 million. It is now tho biggest 'bank in Germany. <

In conneeilion with the forthcoming harvest the Australian Union is demanding a l'orty-four-hour week with a wage for general harvest hands of «£5 ft wc-ek and keep Wages claimed for — other lfands nro in proportion.

The London "Evening News" publishes the text of Lord Beatty's famous and' allegedly suppressed signal to Lord .Tellicoq at tho Battilo of Jutland. It reads ai follows"Wo have got ifliem cold."

A mcssago from Adelaide r'ntes that the English cricketers are taking advantage of every chance for p"epar.Uion for to-day match. At first the batsmen were beaten by the fast wicket, but with persistent praetico their form has greasy improved.

Tlio Communist Party lias issued in Sydney a manifesto detailing the lines by which it is proposed to accomplish social revolution. It urges the necessity for members to actively identify themselves wii.h (he unions, also to form groups in workshops, and otherwise capture legislative or other machinery calculated to- effect a change in the 'social system.

A message from London states that sft'. A. Fisher (Australian High CVi inissiouer). who on Sunday will unveil tlio Australian tablet at Amiens, will proceed on Monday \h Paris to sign, en behalf of tho Commonwealth, a convention conceding Bessarabia to Rumania, also tho convention constituting an international institute in which all t(ha Dominions will participate, which has already been established in Paris, similar to tho Agricultural Bureau at Rome.

Tho bad feelinjr which sincc tho 1917 6trilce has existed between the Sydney coal lumpers and tho Port Jackson cral lumpers culminated in several fights, in which a number wero injured (state a Sydne.v message)). Tho former union wan tho original body which was deregistercd as the result of the strike, and the Port Jackson Union embraces returned soldiers •and loyalists who worked during tho. strike. Theso latter claim that the trouble was tho outcome of a scheme to displace tho loyalists. Tho police restored peace and arrested five.