GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 September 1925, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.

VANCOUVER, Sept, 11. Speaking at Kingsville ) Ontario, the Hon. G. P. Grabam (.Minister for Railways) described the Canadian .National Railway as the greatest experiment in public- ownership in the world, adding in defence of tne Government’s policy against the of Mr. Arthur Meighan (Leader of the that “the road is making as line a record as any on this continent.” LONDON, Sept. 11. The Trades Unio n conference discussed the Dawes plan on a resolution condemning it as an enslavement ol the German workers, also declaring that long hours and low wages in Germany are due to the employers’ successful effort to place the burden of the plan upon the German workers; further, that the plan made it impossible for British miners to compete with German miners on low wages. The resolution was carried by a large niaJ ° nty ' LONDON, Sept. 13. Sir George Hunter, head of Swan, Hunter and Wigham, the shipbuilding firm, has written to the Prime Minister (Mr. Stanley Baldwin), suggesting that an inquiry into coal mining is not enough; the present situation demands an immediate and comprehensive inquiry into the economic position of the whole country’s industries. The future of the British Empire 'is at stake. Shipping is liecoming more and more depressed and ships are increasingly lying up. The iron and steel trade is largely idle and the shipbuilding yards are closed or closing He concludes': “AA’e are not on the road to improvement. AVe appear to be on the road to ruin.”