TROUBLESOME TENTH.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 256, 29 October 1929, Page 7

TROUBLESOME TENTH.

Ninety Per Cent Of Miners Swayed By Agitators^ POWERS OF INTIMIDATION. (Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Before the Coal Commission yesterday Mr. James Johnstone, manager of the Richmond main colliery near Newcastle, stated in evidence that 10 per cent of the members of the Miners' Federation had caused all the trouble. They had used their full powers of intimidation. Ninety per cent of the men lacked moral courage, or, more correctly, "industrial courage" but the average individual was altogether different from what he was collectively, and the majority could be swayed without difficulty.

FOOTBALL TEST.

AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND. . (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 28. Bert Hinkler will fly to the League Test at Leeds and kick off. The Australians will play the probable Test team against Oldham on Saturday. Special Test training is being undergone at Manchester. Armbruster is now fit. KING'S RETURN. DUE LONDON ON MONDAY. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 28. After two months' absence the King will return to London on November 4 and will stay there for ten days. It is again announced that His Majesty will hold a Privy Council at the Palace on November 5. Though his stay covers Armistice Day, he will not attend the Cenotaph ceremony. MURDER CONFESSED. FARM TRAGEDY REVEALED. (Received 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. A man entered the Casterton police station and said he had killed*his wife on a small farm near the town. The police subsequently found the body of Emily Pickens with her head badly battered and a bloodstained spade nearby. John Pickens was later charged with murder. EDISON OVERWHELMED. NEARLY KILLED BY KINDNESS. DEARBORN, October 25. For vears Mr. Henry Ford has had the ambition to "give what he called a "big party" for his friend, Thomas A. Edison. 'His hospitality nearly killed the aged inventor. Ed'ison is 82 and is a grey, bowed figure. He only recently recovered from pneumonia, and could not stand the excitement of the worldwide tribute which was given on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his perfecting the incandescent light, and collapsed aicer a period of dizziness.

The aged inventor is very frail, and he had to rest an hour before speaking briefly for a few moments over the radio to the largest national '""hook-up" ever arranged^