GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 76, 30 March 1928, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Signor Mussolini, in replying to the Pope emphatically refused to renounee the monopoly of the education of youth, which is one of the Italian Government's fundamental duties. It was added by the Prime Minister that he might abolish even the few remaining Roman Catholic institutions. It is believed that he was referring to tho Boy Scouts.

, A conference of Polish and Lithuanian statesmen will be opened at Koenigsberg on Friday. It is cxpected to last four days. Neither country is optimistic regarding the prospects of an agreement.

The Trades Union Council has issued a statement strongly condemning a pamphlet by. Mr. A. J. Cook, entitled, "Mond and Moonshine," referring to the employers' and trade unionists' meetings. The council declares that the pamphlet is full ,of inaccuracies, misrepresentations and deliberate falsehoods, obviously written to discount and damage the council's prestige and authority. Mr. Cook declares that the pamphlet was written before the understanding was reached. *

Representatives of about 200 cotton spinning companies controlling about 21,000,000 spindles attended a meeting in Manchester on Tuesday when a scheme for a large scale amalgamation of mills spinning American-grown cotton was formally announced. The proposal is that a corporation, to be called the "Lancashire Textile Corporation, Limited," will be formed and that it will amalgamate companies by exchanging its own shares and stock for the present creditors' claims and shareholders' certificates.

Cholera has broken out in Calcutta and 122 deaths have occurred in one day. The health authorities are inoculating thousands of Indians to prevent the disease spreading.

A further increase last week of over 5000 is reported by the Ministry of Labour in the number of persons unemployed in Britain. The total of men, boys and girls oat of employment is now 1,066,100.