STOP PRESS NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21368, 12 March 1941, Page 6

STOP PRESS NEWS

AID TO BRITAIN FINAL SCENE IN AMERICA WASHINGTON, March 11 President Roosevelt signed the Aid to Britain B 11. The House cf Representatives passed the Bill by 317 votes to 71. The final scene in the historic legislation occurred when, amid applause from Republicans and Democrats, Mr Marfn, the Massachusetts Republican floor leader, said he would vole for the Senate revisions. "I voted against the Lease .and Lend Bill,” he said, “because 1 opposed the granting of powers to the President which ! tyrt'eved should be retained by Congress. I feared the Bill would bring us nearer war. But a majority of both branches of Congress has decided otherwise, and I realise that Congress having determined to follow the policy set forth in the Bill it is part wisdom to act quicE.ly. We have taken a step unparalleled m American history. All of us pray fervently that the decision is @ wise one and that it will preserve peace and security for oup country. Mr Martin concluded: "Let me say that we stand united for liberty at home and we share in a common desire to see liberty prevailing in every part of the world. Totalitarianism is obnoxious to us all. We live, thank God, in a country where we can debate these great questons, but once a decision is reached we accept the majority verdict- We may differ among ourselves, but there is no division in our loyalty to our country. We are one people, an undaunted people, determined that real Americanism shall not disappear from the earth.” STRIKE POSITION WELLINGTON, Wednesday No fresh developments have been reported in the strike at the Hutt railway workshops. The national executives of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (representing 14,000 men) and the Railway Tradesmen’s Association (representing 2400 men) met to-day and hope to moot the Minister of Railways to-day. Two members of committee Mutt workshops addressed a stop work meeting of the Wellington branch of the Pew Zealand Waterside Workers After which a resolution Union to-da” after wn.c was carried pledging the support of the branch morally and financially and condemning the attitude of the Minister of Railways. COMPENSATION CLAIM decision was reserved in the Compensation Court at Hamilton to-day in the claim for £IOOO compensation by Mrs Wilmontt Mary Granger, of Ongarua, against the Dominion Tim ber, Company, Ltd., Raetihi, for the loss of her husband, who died on Juno 3, 1940, allegedly as a result of an accident at defendants’ sawmill on Fsbruary 7.