America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 10, 6 December 1916, Page 5

America

RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN. P r i iss Association—Copyright, Aostra lian and N.Z. Cable Association. New York. December 5. The New York World says that i -Mr Asquith and Viscount Grey shouh be forced out of office, the change ma] be anything but beneficial to good re latious between Britain and America. THE ECONOMIC CONFLICT. HIGH PRICES IN NEW YORK. Press Association— Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. New York. December 4. As a protest against .high prices, housewives have ffiegim a six weeks’ boycot against Ijptter and eggk. Ex-President jTiift, in a speech, urged the necessity of action to prevent the labour,,puffins from weakening America’s--ability to meet the economic conflict .after the war. The! danger was thav.imjonists should place themselves above the law. That labor federations should -desire to deny un-i organised labor the- right to work amounted to rebellion, and the threat: that a railway strike would be enforced unless the eight-hour law was upheld was a threat to starve the nation into submission. At the opening of Congress, many measures were read relative to the cost of living, including Mr Fitzgerald’s proposed embargo on the export of foodstuffs. The officials believe that Congress is opposed to the embargo.