NATIONAL LOSS.

Grey River Argus, 21 June 1926, Page 5

NATIONAL LOSS.

£8,000,000 Per Day. (Reed. June 20 nt 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 19. The nation’s wealth is being depleted beyond precedent, declared Mr P. J. Hannon (M.P. for Moseley, Birmingham), who is Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Industrialists, when speaking in Birmingham. Ho estimated the country’s loss as the result of the coal stoppage at eight millions sterling per day at present. “If the stoppage lasts another fortnight,” Mr Hannon said, in conclusion, “the loss will be ten millions daily.”

Russian Unions. RESENT BRITISH ATTITUDE TOWARDS STRIKE RELIEF. MOSCOW, June 18. TITe big trade union demonstrations protested against the British note to the Soviet. Banners bore slogans like “Hands off Russian Trade Unions”; “Wo will not renounce solidarity with the workers of other countries.” Meetings were held in streets and factories. Foot and mounted militia during the demonstrations guarded Vorovsky Street, where the British Mission is housed. 1 hey several times pushed back the crowds trying to pass into the building. LONDON, June 18. “The Times’s” Riga correspondent states: The Red trade unions issued a note to the world, which says: “To expeet the Soviet to forbid Russian unions to help the British miners is totally to misunderstand the spirit of the Soviet Government. The unions have helped, are helping, and will help the British miners, because their cause is their own.” The newspaper “Izvestia” says: “The contributions were not the real cause of the note, but they served as a convenient protest to begin Britain’s carefully planned assault on Rus sia, to make us pay our debts.” INANGAHUA MINERS VOTE £5O. Among the West Coast workers, who are supporting the British mineis in their struggle, the Inangahua miners are nowise lacking. They are taking up collections every pay day, and on June 13 they voted the sum of £*so from the funds towards their British comrades. Their action is worthy of every commendation.