GENERAL CABLES.
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IVOR KEltS’ INS CHANCE. GENEVA, June 14. j lie League Labour Conference is likely to adopt two important conventions, one relating to compulsory sickness insurance for workers in industry and commerce, out-workers and domestic servants, and the other relating to agricultural workers. The employers have notified that they will abstain from voting on the draft conventions whilst the workers’ group though considering them far from satisfactory will vote for them. Mention was frequently made in the debates of the work of tlie Australian Royal Commission. and the opinion was expressed that if the conventions were adopted they will he valuable in any action contemplated by the Australian Government. Discussion of the plenary sessions indicates a general desire for a universal scheme of sickness insurance.
WOMEN AT UNIVERSITY. LONDON, June 14
Oxford congregation by 229 votes to 164 decided to limit the number of women undergraduates to 610, the principal of Hertford College advocting a limitation contended that the maintenance of the present proportion of one woman to four men was appropriate to the University with the history and tradition of Oxford. Miss Fry said women were sick to death of discussing abilities and disabilities of their sex. They only asked to be trusted to help the University and not to be.treated as a menace and danger.
A LOCARNO MEETING. GENEVA, June 14. What is described as a Locarno meeting took place between 51 Twiand, g; r Chamberlain, Vanderveldt, Stresemann, Scaloja and Ishii, as a result of the German delegation appealing for the maintenance of the Locarno spirit in all matters of importance. After a two hours conference, the Ministers refused to make a. statement to the press, but a communique issued stated the conversation will be continued to-morrow. LONDON, June 14.
After the guillotine was applied, the committee stage of the Trade Union Bill was concluded and tlie house adjourned.
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