GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1931, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

NEW ALIEN CLAUSE.

Onited press Association —By JEJectru Telegraph.—Copyright.) VANCOUVER, September 24. Trades and Labour Congress of Canada Convention will abandon the platform of the principles clause favouring the exclusion of Oriental,in favour of a declaration that aliens of all nationalities who cannot be assimilated be banned. The change is requested by British Columbia Mill Workers’ Union, which vouched for the staunch unionism of Japanese members.

COTTON SALES. RECORD NUMBER OF BALKS. LONDON, September 24. To-day’s sales of cotton at Liverpool totalled 45 thousand bales, a record for forty years. COTTON MILLS REOPENING. LONDON, September 24. Lancashire cotton corporation has decided to reopen four large mills, employing 15 hundred people, owing to orders received during the past few days. ■STEEL WORKS .REOPENING. LONDON, September 24. Steel works at Barrow employing 14 hundred, reopen on Monday. BB T TIS HER S HOMING. NICE, September 24. Mr Snowden’s broadcast appeal to British nationals abroad on 21 September has roused a great many at present in France. It is estimated that already four thousand British people have left [Riviera for England. To-day’s, trains were so crowded that many had to stand in the corridors.