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U.S.A. TRAGEDY. NEW YORK. April 18. At Newark, New Jersey, three elephants began running wild in the heart of the business district. They trampled an elderly woman to death, and injured two men; and also threw hundreds of women shoppers into a panic.
At the height of the midday traffic ~ " rush, the three animals were being led into the stage entrance of a theatre, where they were scheduled to give a performance. Following a parade through the street, when a eat appeared from an alley-way, it terrified the elephants, and they broke from thentrainers, and charged wildly through the crowd that had gathered to see them. Police reserves were called out. and it took forty patrolmen and the three trainers, after a chase of a mile, to corral and quiet the beasts.
U.S.A. FACTORY HANDS. NEW* YORK, April 18. ‘y" -.,-Thc Australian Industrial Mission lias received a cable from Air Bruce, which, Mr Murpliv, says, places the power in the Mission’s hands to exclude the press. Tho decision to exclude the press is not likely to be Reversed, as tho employers on tbd Mission, excepting Air Campbell, are supporting tho Labour representatives rather than have a split. Air A 111 rpliy has announced that the Itinerary would not he lengthened to the extent of preventing consideration of the report before leaving. AVhilc inspecting Julius Knvser and Coy’s factory at Brooklyn, the Alission was informed that there was a wide distinction between the unions today and those in the past.. The factory was an “open shop.” because the unions had almost ruined the plant. **L, Under Unionism, it would take four years to learn the trade, while under the present conditions tho employee ■was trained in six months to earn big money. Harmony had existed between the management and the employees for the past seven years. One of tho workers’ representatives stated that lie had interviewed many of tho girls who were perfectly satisfied with tho present.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1927, Page 3
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