BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1923, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CAi ,E ASSOCIATION. RICHEST TRADE VNIOX. LONDON, June 28 The annual report of the National Union of Railwayman claims it is one of the richest trade unions in the world. Its assets are valued at £'l,-109,000. The union aims at closing the year of 1928 worth .£‘2,009,000. BRITISH LABOUR. LONDON. June 28. A further attempt to-day to persuade the Labour Congress to accept Mr Xewbold proved futile. The congress by '>.250.000 votes to 219.000 refused to solid .Mr Newhoid the Labour Party’s whips'. The. “Daily Express” says it lias obtained possession of a remarkable document, signed by the President of the Communist International at Moscow, proving, beyond doubt, that the Communists’ frantic eflorts to obtain Hi:! in lion with the British Labour Party are merely part of n plot to stab the party in the back. COMMUNIST ALMS. LONDON, .Tune 27. In regard to the Communists’ documents. they instruct Comrade Newhoid to oppose every existing Parliamentary Party, and to introduce an absolutely new revolutionary spirit into parliamentary action, hostile in principle to tho basis of the British Constitution, to British policy, ami to all its supporters. The document continues: ‘‘The instruction to affiliate with the Labour Party does not imply any unconditional affiliations. Hut affiliation on conditions securing for the Communists complete freedom of criticism and the maintenance of Hie independence of their own revolutionary organisation. A\ ithont this condition, any affiliation with the T.ahour Party for the purposes of conducting revolutionary work with it, loses all meaning. The instruction to affiliate with the Labour Party is rendered possible owing to the special character of the organisation of the Labour Party. Our chief task in tho British Parliament, where the country's class struggle is focussed, should lie to develop our own revolutionary position, which should ho opposite to that of nil other parties, including the Labour Party itself. The Labour Party is now one 'of the greatest, props of British j'fninerialisin. Tn no circumstances must parliamentary action he regarded as an end in itself, or must the interests of any group of the elector . he placed above the interests of the revolutionary movement as a whole. GLOUCESTER. EPIDEMIC.

LONDON. June 28. There was a dramatic scene in Hie Gloucester City Council when C'r. Embliug asked permission to bring into the council chamber :v child whose illness had been diagnosed ns smallpox. He declared: “If the hospitals are going to he filled with eases like this, you are going to damn Gloucester I Ur. Embling referred to the qualifications of Dr Davidson, who had l>een summoned from Rirmiltghalll to fight the epidemic. Dr Davison is a young mail. He rose up looking pale, and declared: “If my qua I if* -ations are going ti) bo attacked, 1 shall lo«uo 1 io city. Is Cr. Embling prepared to como with me to the Isolation Hospital, ami <ee some of the fearful sights m the wards there. The recollection of those sights will never lie obliterated from

inv mind.” . . At Gloucester. C’r Embling persisted that Dr Davison should reply to the (.riteisms by Dr Hadwen, an anti-vac-cinationist. Thereupon, Dr Davison pntliorod up liis papers, *n»d Quitted the chamher. saying he would not stay in the city a moment longer. A deputation, headed hy tile Mayor, later on found Dr Davison packing at his hotel. They persuaded him to stay. The smallpox patients in hospital now total lot). .MEDICAL .VITRUKS <)F ERROR. NEW YORK, June 28 The ''Times” Washington correspondent says that despite the Government's reluctance to seize ships bringing in li(|tior in excess ot the medical supply, it is understood that such seizure i- being seriously contemplated if the practice continues. Mr Hughes conferred with the Treasury officials reaching this tentative compulsory arrangement. The correspondent adds that there appears to be a belief that tho steamship companies are undertaking _ a policy of irritation, hoping thereby to.' break the morale of the prohbilioti on- | force me nt hut the continued insistence thereon may shorten the Governments patience and moderation. U.B.A. IMMIGRATION. Washington. June 27. The Department of Immigration announces that Jof.SOJ immigrants will be admitted to the United States during this fiscal year. Leginning on July Ist. JAI’ NAVY ORDER. LONDON, June 28. Japan lias given ail order to Vickers Company to fit a large destroyer, now building in Japan, with the Metropolitan Vickers impulse turbines, developing 39,000 shaft horse-power. It is explained that the Japanese Navy has been displaying interest in this form of turbine, and has placed the contract because Japan, while capable of manufacturing other forms of turbines, does not make this typo