AMERICAN ITEMS.
, AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. OABLK ISBOOIATIO.n]
WORKERS AGREE. (Received This Dtoy at 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec, 21.
A meeting between workers and owners of a large ironmill at New Bern, North Carolina, to discuss a twenty per cent reduction of wages resulted in an agreement whereby all profit beyond operative expenses will be distributed among the workers in lieu of wages. Secretary Kelly, of the Amalgamated Workers of America, announced an organisation will demand the owners of plants now idle should turn them ove. to the workers.
CHINESE POLITICS. NEW YORK, Dec, 21. The Chicago “Tribune’s” Shanghai correspondent says despite the recent unification mandate issued by the President of China, northern and southern factions seem drifting furthe 'apart. Sun Yat Sen who recently assumed control of the Canton Government, telegraphed to Peking demanding the dismissal of all military men, the withdrawal of the unification mandate and that Peking should refrni from a further foreign loan. ”, The Peking Government declared the that neither the Chinese people nor Northern Government can be resp° sible for Japanese loans made to Soutl erns. -*
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19201222.2.26
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1920, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
180AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1920, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in