GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 241, 6 July 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph-Press Assooiation-Oopyrieht Twenty-six people were killed and a hundred injured in a railway accident in Pennsylvania, A telegram from Osaka states that 20,000 workers were discharged there during June owing to the economic depression. The Government of New South Wales proposes to borrow sufficient Imperial Government mutton from cold storage'to relieve tho local shortage. The Berlin Confederation of Labour has accepted the Soviet Government's' invitation to send representatives to Russia to arrange for the immigration of suitablo German workers. It is reported from Rome that armed workers hunted down and killed four landowners at Gioja dal Colle, and wounded twenty, as a reprisal for the shooting of peasants who had invaded land with' tho intention of working it for themselves. A Berlin message states that there have been further food disturbances there and at Worms, where shops were plundered and the police were helpless. French patrols cleared the street. The damngo is estimated at three million marks.

The section of the Australian Workers' Union, dissatisfied with the conduct of_ affairs in connection with the existing dispute in the shearing indus-. try, carried a resolution of no-confidence in tho union executive. It also resolved to accept nothing less than the Queensland rates and conditions for shearing in NW South Wales.

A Melbourne message states that a daring scheme to release prisoners from Pentridge Prison was detected. Longservice convicts nut on suits under tho prisou garb. Their suspicious movements caused a search, which revealed tw3 automatic pistols, dynamite, jemmies* and coils of copper wire. It is estimated that 120 prisoners could have escaped had the scheme succeeded.

The Hobart Social Service Committee's report on the moral conditions of the city recommends the abolition cf the temperance bars now allowed on licensed premises after 6 o'clock, aijd anti-shouting legislation. With regard to crime arising out of sex abnormality the committee is of opinion that mere imprisonment is calculated to aggravate the evil. It is suggested that offenders should he subjected to reformatory treatment.