GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

WORLD’S TWO CLASSES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received August 16. 9.10 p.m. New York, August 15. Mr. Samuel Gompers, addressing the international convention of railwaymen and carmen at Toronto, said: “The world is divided into two classes—employers and employees. There are no others, and there can be no others. The day of the master is gone, never to return, and we don’t want it. Meantime, grit your teeth and organise together. We don't want a cataclysm in the United States or Canada; we shall work out our destiny slowly, advancing epoch by epoch, and bettering ourselves with the passing of the years.” GAMBLING MANIA IN BERLIN. Berlin, August 15. All classes are participating in the stock exchange gambling mania, partly due to the decline in the mark abroad through the Government’s heavy buying and the expectation that new taxation will send prices sky high. Brokers are refusing orders received after the first post. The newspapers are forecasting a terrible crash. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Received August 16, 9.10 p.m. ' London, August 15. In the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George, replying to a question, said he was unable to give the names of the Australian and Canadian representatives at the League of Nations meeting. South Africa would be represented by its High Commissioner; India, by the Maharajah of Kutch, Mr. Sastri and Sir R. Meyer; Britain, by Lord Robert Cecil. IRISH RAILWAY DISPUTE. Received August 16, 9.10 p.m. London, August 15. The Irish railway directors and workers agreed to refer the present dispute, which threatened a grave strike, to a tribunal, to which the directors and workers should each nominate five representatives, the Lord Chancellor nominating the chairman. IRISH COMPENSATION CLAIMS. Received August IG, 8.20 p.m. London, August 15. Lord Castlemaine is claiming £200,000 compensation for the destruction of Moydrum Castle by Sinn Feiners in July, and Mrs. Lambert is claiming £30,000 for the murder of her husband, General Lambert. BRITISH COAL EXPORTS. Received August 16, 9.10 p.m. London, August 15. Iri the House of Commons, Mr. Mitchell Thomson stated that coal exports in July I amounted to 816,300 tons, compared with . 2,000,000 in March. The average monthly export in 1913 was 6,000,000 tons. COST OF BRITISH CENSUS. Received August 16, 9.10 p.m. London, August 15. It is estimated that the cost of the recent census in the United Kingdom was £500,000. < A BURMESE BOYCOTT. Delhi, August 15. A meeting of the general council of the Burmese associations decided effectively to boycott all European goods. GERMAN MILITARISTS' SPEECHES. Berlin, August 15. General Ludendorff reappeared at the Pan-Germ an demonstration at the opening of the Commercial Fair at Konigsberg and made a strongly militaristic speech. He described himself as Hindenburg’s representative, and a member of the old army, whose spirit should permeate the new times. Other generate spoke in the same strain. TEXTILE WORKERS’ STRIKE. Paris, August 15. Textile workers ,at Lille, Roubaix and Turcoing have struck against the employers’ proposal to reduce wages by 40 centimes an hour, with a further reduction of 10 centimes in a few weeks. A few establishments are • still at work. There are 1600 strikers at Lille out of 1900 employees.