GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 70, 15 December 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright French and Russian representatives at: Reval are negotiating a trade agreement.

Belgium has requested tho Council of the League of Nations to consider tho position of Armenians in Cilicia at the January meeting.

Notwithstanding the refusal of the Australian State Governments to share in the fruit pool guarantee, Mr. W. M. Hughes (Federal Premier) is proceeding with tho formation of the pool.

John Keith Clinch has 'been appointed Rhodes Scholar for Tasmania for 1922. He is the second son from tlie same family to be selected, his brother, Allen, being successful in 1918.

The General Council of tho Trade Union Congress in London has issued a manifesto alleging that employers were conspiring to encompass reduction of wages and drastic extension of tho normal working week. The council computs tho wages reductions have reached a total of 256 million pounds annually.

Henry Scarborough and Alfred Clarke, directors of the Bndak mine, charged nt Melbourne with conspiring with Orton to defraud, were remanded until January 19. Bail was allowed in tho sum of -£590 each. Counsel for tho Crown stated that the amount'of losses involved in Bendigo alone wore between .£60.000 and .£70,000.

The coal strike at Pittsburgh, Kansas, took nn astonishing turn when, the miners and their women relatives, numbering 2000, marched upon tho mines and drove off the sheriff’s posses,_stopped all approaching vehicles carrying strikebreakers, detained thorn, and noted, throwing red pepper at those opposing them. Tho authorities are unable to cope with tho lendcrless storming mob.