AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

I.AV.AV. AND STRIKERS

NEW YORK, Oct. 21

A message from AValsenburg, Colorado. states the deputy sheriffs made a surprise attack on the Industrial Workers of the AA orld pickets at the coal mines in that district and arrested forty-seven men and seven women, who were charged with violating the State anti-picketing law in connection with the strike. The pickets in the Court sang their batltc song “Solidarity.” The strikers will continue to picket, ami claim they will he able to do so undeterred soon, because the jail is only capable of holding fewer than fifty persons. Three additional mines are nowclosed. and two hundred more miners have been enlisted as pickets.

BRITISH PROPAGANDA

NEW YORK. Oct. 22. In connection with the trial of William AC Andrew, superintendent of schools in Chicago, on charges of disseminating pro-British propaganda, preferred against him by William Thompson, Alayor of Chicago, Professor David Alusscy. of Columbia University, has filed suit against Thompson, claiming 100,000 dollars for libel, on the ground that a misleading quotation was taken from his history book to show- that he adopted a pro-British attitude. Newspapers throughout the country devote considerable space to leading articles commenting on the trial and its effect in Britain. The New York “ Evening Rost ” says: “There is nobility hack of the screaming farce of Al’Andrew’s trial. It is found in the noble desire of the non-Anglo Saxon peoples to make their way up into a fair co-partnership in the ideals and aspirations of their country. We do not believe that it is in essence antiEnglish. It is anti-Americnn-English, against the dominance by the AngloSaxon tradition. AA’e do not even believe that it seeks the destruction or defeat of this tradition. It but wants its own place in the sun for America.”

WOMEN CHALLENGE GUARDS. NEW YORK, Oct. 22.

A telegram from Waklenbnrg states that standing shoulder to shoulder with their menfolk women enrolled in the J.W.W. advanced upon a group of twelve mounted and armed guards at the- local mine, hurling stones and inviting them to battle. Sixteen women were arrested, with thirty men pickets. The women refused to accept their freedom when the sheriff offered fo release them, unless the men were likewise liberated.

RECORD RUN FOR PLAY. NEW YORK, Oct. 22.

“Abie’s Irish Rose” closed its run at Hie Metropolitan Theatre, after 2327 consecutive performances, extending over almost five and a half years. The play broke all theatrical records, almost doubling the previous American mark, and exceeding Condon record for “Chu Chin Clmw” by nearly 100 performances.

AMERICAN REPLY. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22

The State Department lias completed a conciliatory reply to the French Note regarding the tariff dispute. The Note, which will he delivered on October 24, pledges the United States to re-examine for pos. siblo revision certain American tariff rates and embargoes, which France protested were prohibitory, hut it points out that the United States Government cannot, under the law, guarantee in advance a reduction of the rates regarding which protests were made, and the lifting of the embargoes which is desired l>y Franc.'.

The United States has receded from its original demand for an immediate cessation of all French tariff discrimination against American goods in the interests of temporary agreement, and now demands the elimination of the new discrimination applied under tht law of September (i. leaving price discriminations for the negotiations it: connection with a permanent commercial treatv.

ADVICE TO AMERICA. NEW YORK, Oct. 22. Speaking at a. dinner given in his honour Mr Henry Wickham Steed, editor of the “Review of Reviews.” said: “So far as Britain is concerned the seas are free for America to put on them, if you wish, the biggest navy the world lias ever seen. The only question for us is to determine our maximum requirements for Uie safety of our trade routes, which we would never expect you to threaten, and how far that minimum can st ill bo reduced by a sound constructive policy for world peace. May there not one day be another American doctrine that will contribute even more potently to the peace of the would than the Monroe Doctrine has done? A doctrine that will establish for all time, and give warning to all. that among the peace loving democracies of this planet the United States stands second to none.” Mr Wickham Steed, referring to the naval disarmament conference which was held at Geneva this year, said that the broader questions involved were never considered by the British Cabinet as a Cabinet at all. The speaker declared that they had been left to what was in the main an Admiralty delegation.