ITALY UNDER FASCISM

Evening Star, Issue 19666, 20 September 1927, Page 5

ITALY UNDER FASCISM

FINANCIAL ECONOMY WAGE GUIS. Pnes Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, September 19. (Received September 20, at 11 a.ra.) The Central News Agency's Rome correspondent says that, having stabilised trio lira, Signor Mussolini is now devoting his attention to-administrative economies, first by a reduction in the State servants’ salaries amounting to £3,500,000 annually, then banks and private firms, with cuts of 15 per cent, to 20 per cent. The basic industries and agriculture follow next, with graduated reductions in order to avert hardship on the workers. The proposal also affects d/ctors, lawyers, and journalists. When the economy is completed it is estimated that the Exchequer will benefit to the extent of two milliards lire yearly.

the effect the new tariff will Lave on their industries.

It was decided that Mr Somerville and Dir J. Sutherland Ross (vicepresident) should go to Wellington on Wednesday to confer with manufacturers from Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch, with the intention _of taking concerted action in approaching Cabinet and members of Parliament to (stress the claims of the New Zealand manufacturers to an adequate protective tariff in specific cases. Many individual manufacturers also intend to go to Wellington in their particular iutoresls-

A telegram was received by Iho secretary after the meeting from the Wellington Association, stating that a representation of dominion manufacturers was being arranged lo meet at Wellington oil Thursday to interview the Minister of Customs and the Comp-troller-General. The executive decided to call another meeting for this morning, when jt was arranged that a strong delegation of manufacturers should proceed to Wellington to net in conjunction with other dominion secondary industries.