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[Australia & N.Z. Cable As iociation.] STRUCK OF WOMEN TH B-EATEXED NEW YORK. Feb. 20. Frankly facing the certain possibilities of a general strike in the New York women's garment industry, the X.Y. Joint Board of Die International !.allies’ Garment Workers' b nion, has decided to raise a war chest of !.COB,G<!O dollars. At a meeting .of shop chairmen this week it was rc’ctmi mended that the Joint Board assess each member of all affiliated unions. 20 dollars. The decision came after Louis Hyman. manager, and Charles Zimmerman. chairman of the dress department. of the Joint Board, had informed the chairmen of the serious financial straits in which the organisation now finds itself. Before the assessment is collected it will havo to he approved by a referendum vote of the member ship. A meeting of the newly elected general executive board of Die International was held during all of last week in New York' City. It was decided that the union again present a full list of its demands to Governor Smith’s commission. There was not much liojie felt that the commission would grant the union's' demands, it being generally agreed that a strike seems inevitable The general executive board decided to till the place left vacant- through the resignation of St. Yunofsky as -editor of Justice. the official organ, by the appointment of Alax D. Danish.
THE CATIICABT CASE. NEW YOBK. February 19. The Countess of Catheart won a temporary respite on Friday, when Federal Judge Goddard issued a writ of habeas corpus, calling for her appearance in the Court on Tcusday. WASHINGTON. February 19. Introducing a bill to amend Die t’.S.A. immigration laws on Friday, Representative Berger, the Socialist from Wincmisin, commented on the recent exclusion of the Countess of (atbi-nrt. the Hungarian Countess Karolyi and AT. Saklatvala (British Conimjinisi AI.P.) as disclosing “the danger of conferring discretionary powers upon officials who may ex ere A it in the way that our officials have.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1926, Page 2
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328AMERICAN CABLE NEWS Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1926, Page 2
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