LABOR FUNDS AND POLITICS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 19 August 1910, Page 5

LABOR FUNDS AND POLITICS.

(Received August 19, 9.0 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 18. A fire occurred in Jersey City and the damage exceeds one million dollars. Two persons were killed.

CANADA AND THE CHINESE POLL TAX. [PKhHB ASSOCIATION.] OTTAWA, August 18. Replying to a deputation or Laoor Unions at Vancouver, demanding tnat the Chinese poll tax be increased from •00 to 1000 dollars, Sir >\ lltrid L.auner declared thai> tne Cuoverninent weie forced to remember the diplomatic '."elations with the Orient and the general weltare ot Canada, in audition v« fcjje peculiar labor requirements of Uritian Uolumbia. I |

NHW YORK, August 18. Twenty-one milkon dollars' worth" of works ot art were imported into the United States in the past year. Tlie previous record was mx million dollars.

LONDON, A«gus,fc 18. The Daily News, discussing the Os-' born© decision, says the most experienced officials are convinced that voluntary contributions are useless. A branch of a hundred members recently adopted a voluntary levy. The following week two paid. The irony of tlic-. position lies in Labor, having based itself on independence of Liberalism and Toryism, now being obliged xo appeal to one or the other for reform. Meanwhile Labor is much embarrassed. Municipalities and Parliamentary candidatures are reduced to a minimum.

BIG FIRE; 2 PERSONS KILLED.