AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1920, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

'AUSTRALIAN NT.7.- CABI-P. tSSOOIATIONI UNEMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 10. A canvass of the industrial situation in many sections of United States shows concomitantly with falling prices occurred serious unemployment especially in. clothing and textile trades. In Philadelphia two hundred thousand are idle. Textile, automobile and construction trades are affected in Pennsylvania; two thousand are unemployed in Boston; two hundred thousand textile workers are idle throughout Massachusetts province; two thousand cotton workers in St. (Louis; twelvp thousand in Omaha; three thousand in Toledo (Ohio); fifteen thousand in Tacoma; two thousand lumbermen in Seattle; five thousand in St. Paul, one thousand in Atlanta. There are no unemployed, hut cotton workers wages are reduced between 35 and fifty per cent. Reports throughout the country indicate wages have been reduced between 25 to 50 per cent in all sections. Various trades workers in many places voluntarily accepted the reduction to assure work. JAPS AND DAVIS CUP. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 11. Takamine Asbuki, President of the Tokib Tennis Club, conferred with United States Lawn Tennis Association concerning a. Japanese challenge for the Davis Cup. Asbuki plans upon return to Japan to take up the formation of a National Tennis organisation, and to issue a challenge in 1921. IRISH THREATS. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 11. The British 'Embassy brought to the State Department an attested copy of a message from Amalgamated Irish Societies of America received by Sir Hamar Greenwood threatening reprisals against Englishmen in United States if reprisals in Ireland continue after November 14th. The State Department will have the Department of Justice investigate the source of the message. Police guards around the British Embassy at Washington have been increased and large lights illuminate the rear of its building in New York. Sinn Feinn representatives deny any connection with the message to Sir Hamar Greenwood and declare no organisation such as the amalgamated Societies exist. JAP PROTEST. TOKIO, November 10. The emigration Society of Japan passed a resolution declaring California’s Japanese referendum contravened the principles of justice and humanity. The Society demanded a fundamental solution of the question and planned to make untiring and unyielding efforts to obtain redress. WALL STREET AFFAIR. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 11. Tho “Evening World” declares the Wall Street explosion on the 16th Sept, was the result of a revolt of the union of house wreckers against the contractors’ ring. Tho “World” bases the charges on the results of investigations and states that an alien workman in revenge for the ring’s oppression sent a bomb designed to explode near the House. The wrecking job was conducted by a ring contractor next door to J. P. Morgan’s office.