BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIII.E ASSOCIATION GERMAN STRIKES. (Received this day at 1.5 i 1 - 111 • > MERLIN, March fi. A number of employees of the linden Aniline Dyeworks at l.udwig>lialeu have struck refusin'; to work !) hours per day. The strikers forcibly entered the works and ejected those woiking. The police were summoned, but were fired on. There were numbers of casualties on both sides in the ensuing tight. There is ft jjjoiicrnl strike ftt the .shipyards at Hamburg. Bremen. Lubeek. and Stattin. EGYPTIAN STRIKES. (Received this day at 1.5 p.m.l CAIRO, March 0. The f’rocurator-Cleneral is inquiring into the spread of Communistic ideas among Alexandria workmen and the possibility of their ramifications in the provinces. The employees of the Vacuum Oil Company have struck. The workers at the Kafhelsavat Cotton Company’s factory have returned, hut the Abouchanab cotton and oil factory, of which the employees forcibly took possession and then evacuated, is still closed, the proprietors refusing a compromise on the men s demands. TASMANIA’S GOVERNOR. HOBART. March 7. The question whether Tasmania will have tin imperially appointed governor, a local administrator or Lieutenant Governor, was again before the Assembly. Following a motion by the Legislative Council reducing the estimn'tc for the establishment of the Governor by £1 as an indication that an Imperial Governor should be appointed, the Assembly defeated an amendment by ten votes to nine.