MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN ANI) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION SHEARER'S AVAGES. SYDNEY, July 4. la the Arbitration Court, th c Graziers’ Association applied for nil injunction to restrain two of their membcis, the owners of Quant atnhonc Station, front employing shearers at rates in compliance with the demands of the Shearers’ Union, and above the rates of the recent,' Justice Powers’ award. Tlie grounds of the application were that as the High Com], on the application of the Graziers’ Association, had made an order forbidding tbo Australian Workers’ Union from persisting m th e attitude of not permitting its members to work under Justice Powers Award tlie breakaway of such a large station as Quanitanibone, which is shearing 200,000 sheep, at the present stage, would disable the Graziers' Association from maintaining the position it has taken up. The hearing was adjourned till .Tulj 10th to enable the parties concerned io confer. PRESIDENT AND PERSHING. NEAV YORK, July 4. A message from Alnrion says: “AYhat are interpreted as condemnations of the. Herrin outrages were expressed by President Harding and General Pershing in speeches delivered there during the celebration of (he centenary of the city’s foundation. Pmsidcnt Harding said: —A free American has the right to labour without others’ leave. It would bp no less than an abridgement to deny men the right to bargain collectively. Governments cannot tolerate any class of grouped domination through force. Tt will he a sorry day when group domination is reflected in our laws. General Pershing said : —When whole communities openly sympathise, with ruthless murder of inoffensive people in the exercise of their right to earn their i livelihood and where wholesale murder goes unpunished, it is imperative that piuilic opinion should demand that the strqng anil of the law bo put under fearless officials who would take positive action.” Tn the course of his speech President Hnrdin’g expressed his determination to enforce prohibition. Fie said : “Tlie eighteenth amendment denies to the minority their fancied sense of per. sonal liberty, bnt tho amendment is tho will of America, and must he. sustained bp the Government and public opinion, or else contempt- for the law will undermine our very foundation. Tho President, referring to foreign relations, said: “All is well with our international relations. They are secured today with more assuring prospects of peace than ever before in tlie history of tlie Republic. New guarantees have recently been added by the very process of exchanging view-points j and bringing tlie spokesmen of the' great nations to a conference table, whore they resolve,! to do together those fitter, nobler things which no one nation could do alone. We cannot hold aloof from tho world, hut vre can impress the world with American ideals. Even towards whom we maintain an attitude of aloofness, save

in sympathy, looks up to America as a friend and exempler.”

AAI ERICA AND JAPAN

TOKIO, July 4

The Preiiiier, Admiral Kato, in welcoming here Mr Denby (United States Secretary of tlie Navy), said:—“AYe are not only willing, but anxious to maintain, and constantly develop unbroken friendship between Japan and the United States. AYe • ought to ho able, in co-operation wftli the leading nations of the world, to maintain far into the future, the peace that now rests on tho seas, and if we succeed in this, it must follow that peace on land will generally be preserved.” Air Denby expressed America’s indebtedness for the great work that Japanese and American Navies would remain the subject of academic discussion and never become a practical question to be settled at the cannon’s mouth

AUSTRALTAN MOVEMENT,

SYDNEY, July 5

The New States Conference has terminated. A number of resolutions, dealing with thc powers of the New States and Commonwealth were deleted ; others were hold over for a furthr conference. Dealing with Federal territories, a motion was carried affirming the principle ihat each new State formulate its own constitution - , which should not he altered, except by consent of the electors by referendum and subject to the sanction of thc Federal Parliament. TIIE STOLEN YACHT. BRISBANE, July T,. A yacht, with three men aboard, has arrived at Yeppoon, which, tlie police claim, is the auxiliary yacht Rata Cant disappeared mysteriously from Auckland on May 3. It is reported the destination of the vessel was Fiji, but she was compelled to put into A'cppoon owing to a shortage of provisions and fuel. The police have detained the three men.