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(Australian A N.X. Cable Association.] LORD'S EMPLOYEES. NEW YORK. AI arch 2’. The Australian Industrial Aliss.on spent the day at Detroit inspecting Mr Henry Lord's American and Canadian pi’,nits, 'there they had the opportunity of interviewing tile employees. The minimum wage af Lord's is 21s per day. Lord’s industry has been working four days per week through a slack period.
Two former Australian unionists, who are now employed at Lord's, visited the mission to-night, and they interviewed the employers' representatives. 1 hey stated that mass production was not harmful. They knew of men .ho had been working from ten to fifteen years without injury to their health.
Several factories will he visited tomorrow before the Mission goes to Niagara.
NEW EMBASSY LOR BRITAIN WASHINGTON, Alan It 29
There is to he a new British embassy here, which will he one ol the finest buildings of its kind. M’ork on it is expected to start in the next lew weeks. The architect is Sir Edwin Luytens. He is at present in India, hut wii'l arrive here in the near future, when construction bills will he asked for. He will remain in M'ashington to supervise* tlio construction, in co-oper-ation with his American associate architect.
It, is expected that* two years will be required to finish the structure, which will stand on a three and a-ltalf acre plot, in Massachusetts Avenue.
The American National fine Arts Commission, in approving ol Sir E. Luyteu’s design, declared the proposed building was of a nature appropriate for the use intended and impressive of the dignity ot the nation, and was imbued with charm. The Embassy will cost approximately £140,000.
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