CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.
RAILWAY ECONOMIES IN BRITAIN. LONDON, November 17. The British railway companies propose, in addition to cuts already announced, that workshop pieceworkers should be reduced 6s Cd, and time workers 4s 6d weekly It is estimated that the total reductions will save £.11,000, 000, roughly, 10 per cent, of the wages bill. " * ELECTIONS IN POLAND. WARSAW, November 17. The Diet elections resulted in Marshal Jan Pilsudski's Government bloc obtaining 248 seats out of 444. The Opposition hitterlv complains that police coercion and the arrests of Opposition leaders, including 80 exdeputies who are at present in Brest Litovsk military gaol, enabled Marshal Pilsudski's triumph. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. LONDON, November 17. Mr Ramsay Mac Donald, in the House of Commons, said that the debate on the Imperial Conference would be best deferred until the report on the Conference was tabled.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20089, 19 November 1930, Page 11
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