MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1920, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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SEMENOFF’S MOVE. - TOKIO, December 1. Scmenoff, the anti- Soviet leader has arrived at Vladivostock, under a Jap--anese escort. He has boarded' a Japanese transport.

A NEW GREECE. PARIIS, December 1

The Greek statesman, M. Sforza will attend the conference of Allied Powers when it resumes in London, between M. Leygueg and Mr Lloyd

George. M. Sforza strongly holds that Greeoe under the Peace Treaty, had accepted over-great territorial burdens, and which should now be reduced. He also holds that the Allies should recognise Kemal Pasha (the Turkish leader) and also the Asia Minor Nationalists.

LONDON'S UNEMPLOYED. LONDON, December 2.

The unemployed have seized the Camberwell Free Library, and also the Hack* ney Drill Hall. The public are supplying them with rations of bread, bully beef, and coffee. The unemployed have also seized twenty-one empty houses in Camberwell. Riotous scenes were witnessed also at Dalston, when the uneniployed attempted a similar seizure of empty houses. The police werje compelled to draw truncheons. The whole problem is serious. Some Boards of Guardians are granting men ten shillings weekly, and their wives the same, and for each child ss.

Several incidents have occurred on municipal property here. In order to establish relief organisations, their latest step was to occupy the town halls qt Tottenham and Edmonton. They have hoisted the Red Flag. They declare they will remain in the town halls until Work is found.

BRITISH COAL OUTPUT. LONDON, December 2. The coal output for the week ended November 20th., was 5,210,000 tops, bping 220,000 tons more than the previous highest this year. If the rate of output is maintained the miners will be entitled in January to an extra nine shilling per week.

CLYDE DOCKERS’ STRIKE. LONDON, December 1. An extensive strike has commenced on the Clyde. The carpenters and joiners in the Clyde Sliipyards have struck against the reduction of tHeir wage bonus.

The employers have' reduced the bonus by the sum of 12s per week. This is the first attempt to reduce the wages of any considerable body of men in Britain.

The employers state it is impossible _> for them to pay the current wages as shipbuilding costs are bepomipg prohi r bitive. . <j' The carpenters and joiners employed in the Belfast shipyards, whom the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners recently expelled, have accepts •*£ ed a 12s reduction.

AN ADOPTED VILLAGE. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.in.) LONDON, Dec 2. Doncaster has adopted St le ;Ger, a» village near Arras.