BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[“Tiie ’i.'uiEs” Skrvicb.J LA JUJU COM MONK ICS A’l LAVS. LONDON, July 31. To-day's proceedings at the Dominion :.uhuur Conference were opened by Commoner Purcell who declared a majority of the Trade Unionists were optimistic concerning the industrial position. lie viewed with extreme satis.action the present development, and considered if a good thing the Co life rznce was meeting at a time they were ■ii the threshold of one id' the biggest .'icteric,s of Trade Unions in the past twenty-live years. Referring to the development of industrialism in the Empire, Air Purcell declared Britishers employed antiquated machinery and ;etiL the modern to the Dominions. Ho described the Empire as a huge slave plantation of the British capitalist . lass, which was stifling with fat and failing to function. DEATH SENTENCES. LOX DUX, July 31. At the .Sheffield murder trial Lawrence Fowler and Wilfrid Fowler were both found guilty of murder and were sentenced to death. Three others were convicted of manslaughter anil sentenced ironi ten to seven years imprisonment. The five others were acquitted WARNING TO IAlA! IG R ANTS. LONDON, August 1. The British Commonwealth Labour Con I ere nee discussed inter-Dominion mitigation. It examined a written statement regarding the conditions in New Zealand, wherein Air Nash, the Secretary of the New Zealand Labour Party, pointed out that the housing conditions in manv of the large cities of New Zealand are disgraceful. Ho alluded to the acute periodical unemployment.

The statement concludes, “The workers’ general standard of living in New Zealand is higher than in Britain. Thu winkers in New Zealand do not want to selfishly debar fellow workers from overseas, but they will fight any attempt to flood New Zealand with such an amount of surplus labour as will menace their conditions.” •BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON, August 1. The House of Commons read the third time the Cnemployment Insurance Bill. A Labour motion to reject il was defeated hv 2G3 to 98.