AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

AMERICAN TARIFF. WASHINGTON, August 17. The American Federation of Labour will attack New England textile manufacturers in the coming Congress and attempt to decrease their tariff protection. A letter written by William Green (.President- of the Federation) to 0. R. Pierce (President of the American Woollen Company) Green makes a charge that though Congress grants a high tariff to manufacturers for the purpose of enabling them to meet foreign competition, and still pay adequate wages, the manufacturers refused labour its share, notwithstanding special consideration that no other industry in the United States has made such a record for wage reduction and strikes. No industry lias paid higher dividends or issued more stock dividends than textile corporations. Labour in textile mills is paid froqnently less than and seldom over ™ ” thirty per cent of the factory .sellingprice of the product. Ihe recent ten per cent wage cuts have been most un— \ called for and indefensible ever made. 1 Pierce lias not yet replied. Representatives of over 20,000 workers asked MrCoolidge to order an inquiry into New England conditions. They said the mill owners took a cowardly advantage of the weakness of the workers on account of many months of depression.. ESKIMO JAZZ NIGHT. NEW YORK, August 17. A Chicago message states that MacMillan has announced through the Zenith Radio Corporation therethat he will broadcast an Eskimo Jazz. Night on August 19th. on a forty metres wave length. Greenland’s OldestGlee Club will sing' choruses, akin to civilised wailing, accompanied by kiloutes. which are drumliko instruments. beaten with walrus bones. Hie previous programme was so clear that it was rebroadcasted on 322. metres. Mm-Millan stated the Eskimos take their music very seriously. “Wo cannot laugh during the performance, fie ways, “or they are offended, but when it is ended, the heartier our laughter the better it pleases them. They seem to take our merriment as applause.” PLANES FIND NEW RANGES. WASHINGTON, August 18. The MacMillan Expedition' navalaviators are gradually establishing a base west of Ellesmere Land according to a message from Lieut-Comman-tlor Byrd. Two planes leaving Etah encountered fog and low clouds 10 miles front the base. One stopped on account of engine trouble, and the other Hew over Canon Fiord at the altitude of 5000 feet into an unexpected region of Grinnel Land. It found high uncharted mountains, and a frozen lake. It was stopped by cloud-covered; peaks. The planes returned to Sawyer Bay, where they established a cache. They encountered a fifty mile gale over the water.