SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 98, 29 August 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN MEWS

BAKERS' LICHTNItfQ STRIKF, [By Electric Telegraph—copyright] [United Press Association.;' London, August 27. The operative bakers resorted to a lightning strike. They downed tools, picketed the shops, aim announced that no bread would be Vikel without an agreement to a nine-hours' day, including the meal hour, a weekly wage of 345, and exclusive employment of inionists. Their demanas were immediately granted. MUNICIPAL BUILDING SCHEME. Tlio Manchester Municipal Council has adopted a million pounds buiid:ng improvement scheme. MINERS' MINIMUM Y/AGE, Tho agenda paper at the animal conference of the Minors' Federal'.on mooting in October includes a proposal to secure a Hiiainratn wage of sewn shillings a day to all minors' TRANSPORT WORKERS' CONFERENCE. At the International Transport; Workers' Conference, Mr Kavoloek Wilson (secretary of the Seamen's Union) denied the reports of splits in the Union, but stated that men had born expelled who bel'eve in the ;«iy. The Shipping Feiar&tion staled thr.t the seamen had no chance of success in a strike unless they had £150,000 in their treasury.

AH AIRMAN'S COMPLAINT. Hamburg, August 28, Aviator (luiilaux, a competitor for the Pommcry Cup, has arrived. He complains that the German authorities searched and undressed him, and romoved his pocket book and money, and detained him for twenty-four hours. LEVEL CROSSING FATALITY. New York, August 27. I'iyo people were killed in a collision bstwooh a motor car and a train at a level crossing on the Pchrisylrama Railway. The motor car was roasting down the hill, and the brakes did not act.. , i

LOVE'S LABOR LOST. London, August 28, • In an extraordinary breach of promise ease, in which a dusky Burmese beauty with whom tho son of an Englislt vicar had been living at Rangoon w.;s awarded £loo'damages, tlie"'exhibits included a thousand love-letters, one comprising 142 pages, on which the recipient had pail Is 3d excess postage. HOME RULE FOR IRELAND^ ' ■ ■ ®!4s • The staff of the Ulster volunteer force has been appointed. It includes Colonels Crawford (late'of the Lancers) and Wallace (of the Irish Rifles), Captains Rickardo (of tho Inniskillcns) and Craig (a member of the House of Co.unions).

STEAMERS IN COLLISION. A Havnburg-Amerioi.i liner •:<.Hided with the Spanish steamer G'alaico at midnight. The bows of the latter were crushed. The vessel filled." The crew of 19 took to the boats and were' rescued by tho liner and hailed at Falmouth. The Galaico is a menace to shipping in the Channel, as she is drifting vvafcer-logged.