AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

'Australian it N.Z. Cable Association.) OFFER. TO I.WAV. MINE FOR A DOLLAR. NEW YORK, Deo. I. It is reported from Denver that the Union Coal Co. offered to surrender 175,000 dollars’ worth of mine holdings at Pryor to the Independent Workers of the World, for the sum of one dollar, for the purpose of proving that the T.W.W.’s theories favouring the abolition of capital and tlio wage system arc “asinine, ridiculous and preposterous. The properties produce 8600 tons

of coal a mouth. The only condition is that a sufficient bond be provided to protect the company from personal or property loss*. If the offer is accepted all current orders will be given to the I.AY.W. PREFERENTIAL TAR IFF. WASHINGTON, Dec. 0. Discrimination against American railroads, ports and shipping by the Australian and Canadian Governments was alleged by the United States Shipping Hoard in the annual report to Congress. By restriction of British preferential rate to goods imported through a sea or river port of Canada, it was apparently successful in its purpose, the reports states, of diverting traffic from United States ports to Canadian and from American vessels to British registry, revealing that sixty per cent of the total movement through Vancouver consists either of imports consigned to the United States or of exports moving from the United States to foreign ports. By enforcing Australian regulations requiring the cost of railway transportation from the point of origin of shipment to port of export to be added to the value of the goods imported in determining the amount subject to Australia import duty, traffic is diverted through Vancouver. The state Department unsuccessfully attempted to arrange a settlement with Australia, but the latter refused to drop the offending regulation. The State Department’s intention, however is to press the matter to the eno that “ this discrimination may he stopped.”