MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1928, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

I Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) YENEZUELA REVOLUTION. NEW YORK, March 9. Venezuela was shaken by a revolution in which twenty were killed, including six policemen reported lynched by unruly students. The Caracas newspaper “ El Universal ” has been temporarily suppressed. The trouble started when a parade ol four hundred students marched shouting “ Down with the tyrant Domex. The "President's brother. Eusticino Gomez, seized control ot the army and police and dispersed meetings with machine guns. Tile French Minister, who attempted to mediate was ordered to leave the country. The chief complaint at the students meeting was against the United States aggression in Nicaragua and the denouncement of a New York syndicate’s exploitation ot Maracaibus oil resources. SOVIET ACTION. LONDON, -March 9. A Riga correspondent says: “The industrial peace movement in England is one of the dangerous recent developments, and a ruthless war must be declared on it,” declares a resolution of the Soviet International Executive. •• English Communists must strive to the utmost to gain control ot the strike making machinery.” .Meanwhile the Soviet’s Supreme Economic Council, representing Stateowned industries has conferred with the Central Council of Trade Unions in an effort to establish its own peace. For the first time, an industrial conflict is open]v avowed. Tomsky, Irad© Union Leader, admitted this first attempt at a joint conference, bad been a failure, but scolded bis colleagues for defending there own petty interests instead of viewing the dispute from a national standpoint.. “ T! o chaos in Soviet industry is duo to the scarcity of skilled technicians,” he said. “ Unless we import foreign engineers we cannot carry on long.”