MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

HELD UP AND KOI!BED. i tUfcUItAMB.J (.Kucbivod tiiis day ut 10.25 a.in.) LONDON, Jieptenibcr 1. Armed men this morn ini' held up the Manager of tin' Northern Banking Company of (Airriok. on tlio .Shannon, in a lonely wood as lie was motoring to tlio local fair. Tuoy robbed him in over £-1000.

JuU’ EARTHQUAKE ANNIVERSARY (Received tins <luy at 1U a.m.) TOKIU, .Septeiidier 1.

Commemoration services are being held, generally in tlio ail octet 1 areas ol Japan to-day, which is the iirat anniversary of the most stupendous calamity in her history. The day was observed as a holiday, but without music or the opening of pleasure resorts.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS. CE-vLV'A September I

The littli assembly of the League of Nations has opened. The public galleries were packed. M. flymans, tbe acting President, was accorded ail ovation, in his speech he described the- progress of the JLeague of Nations and atlirmcd that the la-ague "as indispensible to tlio lile of the nations.

TRADE UNIONS CONGRESS.

SOME HEATED J>LSOUSSIONS.

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(Received tiiis day at 11." Jo a.m.) LONDON, September 1. The Trade Unions Congress ojiened ut the City Hall, Hull, seven hundred delegates, repiosemtiiig four and a half million members, being present. -Mr Purcell, the Commoner, presided. Inter-Union disputes "ore discussed and it was reported in some cases that the decisions of the Disputes Committee were ileiied by one of the parties. 'The President announced the general Council intended to ask for powers to expel any Union refusing to obey the findings of the Disputes Committee. Mr Catliery, representing tlio Sailors’ and Firemens’ Union, complained that the National Union of Rnilwaymon was poaching from his Union by enrolling seamen working railway boats. The President dosed the discussion amidst uproar. Mr Cook, (Secretary of the Miners’ Federation, received a telegram from tlio French Illinois strongly protesting against the Dawes scheme and its elfcct on the Herman workers. Mr Mnrehbajik, the railwayman's represents live, said he hoped that opportunity would he given to discuss the Dawes report, which lie declared, was designed to benefit international capitalism and ruin the working class movement. Mr J’ollitt, Boilermakers’ Union, in an impassioned speech, demanded that the Trade Union movement should control the policy of the Labour Government. Tlio Congress should emphatically repudiate the threat to introduce tile emergency Powers Act in Trade Union disputes and ilenounce flic Dawes report, .which made war inevitable.

Mr Robert Smellie. on behalf of the Executive, while not denying the right of the Congress to criticise tlio Government’s policy, defended tlio latter. He said the Dawes agreement was in the !:e«b interests of the workers of both Britain rind Germany. The portion of the Council’s report.

declaring ifc was not the function of tlio Congress to enlarge upon the 'Labour - Governmtnit’s legislation was ca.rrie<l by a largo majority, despite attack by tho Communist section. The Congress lvas adjourned. BARDIC’S POSITION T’NOHANG'ED. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) J.tONDON - , September 1. The position of tlic stranded steamer Bardie is unchanged. Salvage steamers have sailed from Liverpool and (‘■oaves to assist. IMPORTANCE OK I.EAGI'E. (Recoived this dnv at 12.30 p.m.) GENEVA. Sept. 1. M. Hymans lauded (lie settlement ot the reparations question at the London C’onforenee as ushering in a period of peace, tranquility and progress; hut, referring to the disarmament question, lie said, the very serious problem of seenritv remained. Europe was unable to live in a state of insecurity. Pence must lie built, nil a firm legal and political foundation. AH eyes were turned to tihe T.eague of Nations in the hope that it would find a solution. The presence of M. Herriot and Mr MacDonald testified to the growing importance of tho League.