CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 October 1931, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

MONTREAL FAILURES.

[BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPIBIGHT.]

MONTREAL, October 15

It is announced that the liabilities of the three insolvent members of the Stock Exchange totalled nearly 25,000,000 dollars.

U.S.A. LABOUR-

VANCOUVER, October 14.

The American Federation of Labour, in its annual convention, after a lengthy, heated debate, opposed an establishment of compulsory unemployment insurance in the United States.

LATER.

The American Federation of Labour Convention re-affirmed its stand for the legalisation of 2.75 per cent, beer, in the coming session of Congress. Two motions, attempting to obtain the Federation’s support for a repeal of the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment, were defeated.

Thq President, William Green, the Secretary, Frank Morrison, and the Treasurer, Martin Ryan, and eight Vice-Presidents, were unanimously re-elected.

ONTARIO ECONOMIES.

ONTARIO, October 15.

The Provincial Government, in order to balance the mounting expenditure due to the unemployed and reduced revenue, will enact a wholesale wage cut programme among the Government officials, from the Cabinet Ministers to the minor Government employees, commencing on November 1- It is estimated that a million dollars annual saving will be effected thereby. An additional automobile tax of probably five dollars per yeai’ is also .announced. '

RESEARCH DISCOVERY

NEW YORK, October 15.

The discovery that the missing element, number eighty-seven, is solid, highly inflammable, and the most sensitive to light thus far known, is announced by the Cornell University. A small quantity of the element has been found in Samarskite, a lustrous velvet-black mineral, by Professor Jacob Papish.

MEXICAN POLITICS

MEXICO CITY, October 15.

President Rubio, to-day appointed the former President Calles, Mexico’s iron man, as Minister for War. after he accepted the resignations of four Ministers, War, Interior, Agricultural, and Communications, owing to political unrest, the exact nature of which is not explained. Il is considered as partly economic, but mostly political.

AERIAL RECORD.

LONDON, October 15.

Owing to a slight error in calculating the time for the first lap, the Royal Aero Club has revised Stainforth’s speed to 407.5 miles, which the International Federation will be asked to approve as a world’s record.