AMERICAN CABLE MEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE MEWS

[Australian & X.Z. Cable Association.] .MEAT TRUST HOW WORKERS FARE. CHICAGO. March Id. The Austrnli’.m Industrial Mission spent four hour's at the Swift Company’s meat works, employing six thousand hands, at Chicago, u ilh total activities of thirty-five thousand. Swill’s wages and conditions are decided by an assembly consisting of thirty representatives elected periodically by the employees of the various departments, and thirty employers’ representatives, who disclose all information, including finance. There has been no disagreement since the Assembly was established in 1920. The Assembly voted a. reduction in wages in .1021, and voted an increase in 1923. '.I he industry is now stable. The employees are paid by the hour, and are guaranteed 10 hours per week. Sometimes they work sixty, with an average of fifty. The minimum wages per hour lor men is 21d, and l’or women 17d. The maximum tor men is 41d, and for women 23d. On task work there are fifty per cent bonuses for over production.

DEATH BY LOT

BOLIVIAN LAW. LA PA 54 (Bolivia), March 14. Four illiterate natives were found guilty of the murder of General Pando. former president, in 1917. '1 hey were condemned to draw lots to determine which should be executed, the remainder being subject to ten years’ prison and three years’ disciplinary confinement-. All appealed to the Supreme Court, which has not yet announced its decision. The sentence, based on the penal code, was devised by the President Santa Cruz in the nineteenth century, which was an endeavour to provide against any wholesale executions of conspirators, while avoiding the danger of making some selected prisoner the scapegoat-. Several other criminals are now awaiting sentence in Bolivia under the same law, which h'as caused a vigorous debate during the, past- ten years.

IRISH STATE SUIT. NEW YORK, March lo

The suit to obtain the 2.500.000 dollars subscribed in U.S.A. lor the Irish Republic in 1922 has opened at the Xew York Supreme Court, with a recital by an attorney of Ireland’s fight for independence. The Free State Attorney-General. Mr Kennedy, staled that Sinn Fein Wis a Government-of an unstable tenure. it frequently lieing necessary to remove the Ministry through a skylight or by way of a drain pipe. The Free State claims the money as the successor to the Sinn Fein Republic. which counter claims that the former had no right to the funds, and that, even if it were the successor, it has* not agreed to assume the Republic s obligation, as in equity it should do. Mr Do Valera is a witness for the Republic, but it is not likely that lie will go on the witness stand for some days. XEW YORK. March 15. The Irish Republican sympathisers gave Mr De Valera a welcome. They pledged themselves immediately to raise funds lor the purpose of placing candidates at the Irish elections in May pledged to the cause of “Real Irish Freedom." Mr De Valera declared that the Treaty establishing the Free State Constitution was obtained through coercion by Mr Lloyd George upon the Republican Delegates at London.

BEAUTY - INDUSTRY. CLEAN UP NEEDED. NEW YORK, March 15. President Xesslcr. addressing the American Hairdressers Axsocli.it ion, said that the women and children of the United States in 1926 spent 39000(1.000 million dollars on lieautv culture ill the thirty thousand beauty parlours throughout the country. He (added that there was need of a housechiming in the beauty industry, and lie asked the members to combine in efforts to drive out the quacks and charlatan. He said that careless workers and a lack of sufficient training did great damage in the effort to increase feminine beauty. He said he had conducted a thoroughgoing questionnaire among prominent people to determine their attitude relative to women resorting to artificial means ot beautifying themselves, and then he read many replies littering strictures upon the American habit of the socalled make-up.

At the Magistrate’s Court, Greymouth yesterday, the question v bethel a consignment of beer ordered by a licensee, who subsequently sold his hotel. should he paid ior ujain delivery by the new licensee, was the subject if litigation when D. J. Mettriok, of Blackball proceeded against William Blackman, claiming £lls 6s, the value of sixteen hogsheads of Speights’ lieer. Alter hearing evidence, in giving judgment, the Magistrate said there was a conflict of evidence as to whether or not the beer was to g> in as part of the stock. There was no doubt, from the evidence of McDonnell, who arranged the sale, that the beer was not taken into consideration. '‘Walk in. walk out” were the terms quite understood by both parties. McDonnell's evidence must lie regarded as conclusive. The beer was received by defendant 13 days after he took possession. and it was absurd to think that he was to get the lieer without (laying for it. He. wired to Speights for more beer, and he did not count ujkiil taking over the 10 hogsheads as being part of the consideration lor his £4509. Defendant did not say anything to Air Hannan about the beet having to come to *.,m without further payment. The lieer was to he paid for bv Blackmun. when if came to hand. There was’ nothing in the point that the carter received instructions to deliver the beer to the hotel. There was proof that the beer was to be paid for by plaintiff after it arrived. McDonnell's evidence svas conclusive. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £lls 6s with court costs £3 and solicitor’s fee £6 15s.