AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1920, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Cmyright.i A SATIRICAL COMPARISON. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK June 9. The Republican Convention at Chicago adjourned pending the result of the Committee’s attempt to agree on candidates. Mr Chauncey Depew, in a speech at the Convention compared Mr Wilson, with a man who gave everything away at the Peace Conference and then objected to a trifle like Fiume. Mr Wilson wanted a new League of Nations, a new heaven and a new earth, with himself as recording angel thereof.

ANTI-STRIKE LEGISLATION. NEW YORK, June 9. Mr Samuel Gompers told tlie Repu! lioan Platform Committee at Chicag that legislation proposing to inak strikes unlawful' or to compel worker to submit their grievances to courts wa an invasion of the rights of the 'owners and if enforced would b,e equivalent t< | serfdom and slavery. AMERICA AND IRELAND. NEW Y T ORK, June 9. At the Republican Convention at Chicago, Mr Frank Walsh 1 addressed the delegates with a plea for a plank pledging full, fo.mal, and official recognition of Ireland’s elected Government by th,e United States, There are proposals from Irish sympathisers that the American Federation of Labour demand the withdrawal of the British troops from Ireland. Several Canadian delegates have announced, however, that they would combat such a move, at a Convention held in Canada, on British soil, while others intimated /they would withdraw if the question were brought up before the Convention at Montreal for debate.