AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1927, Page 3

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[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] k CHICAGO HOLD UP. NEW YORK, Afareh G. Armed with two machine guns, nine bandits entered Cheliux Brothers’ gambling liou.se, the largest in Chicago, and swept six thousand sterling from the roulette dealers’ banks into bags, decamping without firing a shot. LIQUOR THIEVES. NEW YORK, March G. A second sensation in Chicago was the arrest of four well-dressed men who lived alongside a Government warehouse containing whisky. They rigged six thousand feet of hose and with pressure pumps syphoned thousands of gallons of liquor from the tanks. The police captured them after a pistol fight. IMPROVING THEATRE PLAYS. (Received this day at 10.15 a.in.) NEW YORK, March 7. Following police raids on three allegedly most objectionable plays fas cabled on February Gth) and arrests niul arraignment of complete casts and producers, continuous attempts have been made to reform the theatre from within. The latest effort just announced consists of the formation of a church committee, composed of a leading Anglican Bishop, a minister, a Catholic Priest and a Jewish Rabbi, which announced that Churches must share the responsibility of the present conditions because .too often they are content to criticise the theatre wholesale instead of discriminating between worthy and unworthy plays and lending their .influence to support those really meritorious. Sermons in many churelies to-day dealt with the theatre and in several cases addresses were made by theatrical people.

INDUSTRIAL AIISSION. /Received this day at 8 a.m.) VANCOUVER. March 5. The Australian Industrial Mission was heartily welcomed at Seattle where nt n lunchcan tendered by the Cliamhor of Commerce, W. M. Short, President of the Washington State Federation of Labour in the course of a speech, said that American labour always recognised the chief problem was equitable division of production of industry and not a restriction of output. The higher the earning power of the worker the larger his share' of prosperity. We never shared the policy of go-slow based on a fetor of over production resulting in unemployment.. The problem to he faced was not over production, but consumption. As we increase the earning power of the workers, likewise we increase their purchasing power. Business leaders took time to realise the wisdom of this policy. Two chief addresses at the hist National Convention of Chamb 7 ers of Commerce were based upon the importance of high wages on general

prosperity. The Federation in 1920 «- opposed the post war slogan “Back to normal,” on which the presidential campaign, won. The Federation’s policy was that it was better to resist and lose than not to resist at nil. It would have meant industrial and business stagifition later. Industrial leaders supported the Federation’s views, lit would be a Fallacy to revert to the 1914 standards which the slogan meant ns proved by countries which had ondeavoured to return to normal. Those who clung to 1924 standards have progressed unretarded. He advised the mission to visit all American industries as numerous American employers had not accepted the doctrine of high wages, but were gradually coming into line, as the nation was definitely committed to that policy, high wages being real wages; increasing purchasing power. The controlling power ot America was not congress nor even White House because the problem was economic daily. Political power was giving way to economic power. Austn.dian’s were mistaken in the acceptance of compulsory arbitration permitting politics to control economic questions and conditions. Workers were the only effective machinery to deal with such matters, being economic machinery, mutually agreed upon and established between employer and employee, machinery lor settling indusrjil disputes must he on the job when the problems arise. ’ “Jf the ■' mission finds a plan to replace class hatred,” he said, “with mutual cooperation aiming at equitable division of production, you will fufil your purpose. Dig deeply into American industry and you will find this pint is being generally adopted of governing by voluntary organisations of workers and employers. High wages standards aro responsible for the prosperity ol America.”