CONSOLIDATING INDUSTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1916, Page 5

CONSOLIDATING INDUSTRY.

LABOR AND ENEMY TRADE. London, Sept. 0. The Daily Mail states that negotiations are proceeding to establish a working agreement between most of the arms and ammunition businesses in the United Kingdom, involving an aggregate capitalisation of thirty millions, with the object of placing the British industry in a powerful position in the world's trade after the war. The Trades Union Congress rejected the committee's recommendations to join an International Trade Union Conl'ci'oue. ■simultaneously with the Peace Conference, in order to advise diplomats concerning Labor's view of the peace terms. It was disclosed that the German trade unionists had informed the conveners that it wr;ild be impossible for them to attend, because they were under a Government of absolutism which it was hoped to alter after the war. Several members of the Congress declared that they would not tolerate further truck with German Internationalists. VOTING IN TIIIC FIRING LINE. London, Sept. fi, The War Office has agreed to British Columbia sending a stall' to the French bases to poll votes o:. ! the lighters. TWO ZEPPELINS LOST. Rome. Sept. fi. Tt is learned from Switzerland that Germany lias lost two super-Zeppelins.