AMERICAN ITEMS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BRITAIN AND U.S.\. WASHINGTON, May 2d. The British Embassy lias found it necessary to refer the latest debt funding proposals hack to London, thus involving a further delay in tho final settlement.. It is learned that Secretary Hughes will apologise to Britain over the Republican Committee’s recent attack.
TWELVE-HOUR DAY. NEW YORK, Alay 26. The American Iron and Steel Institute has unanimously adopted a report favouring the retention of the twelvhour day in the steel industry. Too report was submitted by a. committee appointed at President Harding's suggestion to investigate the desirability of tho eight-hour day. The committee declares that a 15 per cent, increase in prices would follow the adoption of a shorter day, which it says, the workers themselves do not want. It also says there is not sufficient labour to supply three shifts daily.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1923, Page 2
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144AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1923, Page 2
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