GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

” UNIONISTS BARRED. By Telegraph.—rress Assn.—Copyright Received Sept. 16, 5.5 p.m. New York, Sept. Ift. Chicago reports that the Armourj (Swift, Wilson and Cudahy packing com-* panies have established open shops and notified the union that they will employ only non-unionists and only nonunion officials will be dealt with in future. The companies announce that 90 per cent, of their 7500 employees voted in favor of the plan. TRAIN ROBBERS KILLED. Received Sept. 17, 1.30 a.m. New York, Sept. 15. Acting on a warning of an intended hold-up, railway officials placed on board a train posses of police and troops, and when two masked robbery appeared both were shot dead. A WOULD-BE ASSASSIN.. Paris, Sept. 15. Dlmetrlus Panagoulous, who was arrested last year for having attempted to murder M. Venezelos, but escaped, has been re-arrested in possession of 100,000 francs. He is now feigning madness.

AMERICAN PROHIBITION. New York, Sept. 14. M. Gaston Monnet, proprietor of « leading French distillery, who toured Canada investigating the effects of the enforcement of prohibition, declared, that he found more drunkenness in Canada and the United States than in any other part of the world. He thinks that the best opinion in holds that prohibition does nEjffigfriijm, but that (Government control successfu' ‘ /