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!•: K IUILSS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] RAILWAY-MEN GET RISE. LONDON, Sep. 20. The railways’ dispute lias been settfed. This is the result of a- conference between the railwayman and the War Cabinet. The agreement provides for weekly wages increases. These are: Five shillings for male and female adults; half-crown for workers under eighteen. The increase is retrospective, dating from sth August.
ALLIED LABOUR CONFERENCE. LONDON, Sop. 20. Speaking at the Labour Conference, Mr Henderson (chairman) stated that the Committee was not unanimous on (lie Russian question. The majority desired, lie said, that Entente inteivintion in Russia should he.prevented from serving the cause of reaction there, whereas the Americans, he said favoured making a declaration that the Allies’ intervention aimed at arresting the German influence on the Bolsheviks, who had 'suppressed a great majority of Russian workers, hut that the Entente military successes should not bo used as a pretext for arresting the democratisation of Russia. A discussion on the motion on the Austrian peace note followed. Mr Rompers said the Americans, while willing to support otherwise the resolution, did not agree with the suggestion in it that the Entente has not been responsive to the peace overtures.
FRANCE’S REPLY TO AUSTRIA. PARTS, Sep. 20. French Foreign Ministry, replying to the Austrian Note for a conference, M. Pichon sent to the Swiss Minister a copy of M. Clemenceau’s speech, saying that it summed up Franco’s attitude towards the Vienna Cabinet.
HOLLAND’S FOOD SUPPLIES. WASHINGTON, Sep. 20. Tho State Department announces that as long as Holland allows herself to be intimidated by German threats to destroy Dutch shipping, the United States'will not be able to forward foodstuffs in a similar manner to Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland’s supplies. It is pointed out that there arc three thousand tons of Dutch shipping lying idle at European ports.
BRITISH MONITOR SUNK. NEW YORK, Sep. 21. A British monitor has been sunk in the harbour hero. Twenty were killed and fifty-seven are missing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1918, Page 1
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