AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & X.Z. Cable Association.] PHINCR CONGKATUBATED. NEW YORK, April 20*. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has congratulated the Prince of AYales on his refusal to attend the bull-light arranged in his honour. In a message sent to the British Embassy at Madrid, he said: “Your disapproval of this cruel sport shows your own fine spirit and humaneness.

MENACE TO UXIONS. WASHINGTON. April 27. Mr William Green, of the American Federation of Labour, has issued a statement condemning the British Trade Union Bill. lie says:—"The character of the proposal, as well as the method of giving it effect, are completely at variance with English tradition and experience.” Ho is confident that public opinion will not support such a policy of retaliation or vengeance. Mr Green points out that the American Labour movement has such fraternal relations with British Labour, that the welfare of the British workers comes very close to their hearts and it is with genuine concern, therefore, that they regard this Conservative Bill which virtually repeals the Trades Disputes Act of 1006. The statement adds:—‘‘The experience of facts certainly has brought the British Trades Unions to realise the unwisdom of the general strike. Jhe recurrence of the general strike procedure. however, could not be more surely guaranteed than by the enactment of this proposed measure, which will deny to the wage-earner the methods and the agencies necessary to work out economic problems through economic means.”