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Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

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HOI AIAXI.VS KING. BERLIN. April o. A message from Bucharest states King Ferdinand is dying. He has taken no nourishment for 2-t hours and has been unconscious all night. .MUSSOLINI TOUCH. HOME. April o. Another .Mussolini touch surprised the meat profiteers in Home. The Governor, I’rinee Spadapo Fcrxiani, himself a cattle dealer, concluded That middle men wore inflating prices, whereupon he created a market to which fanners could deliver carcases, ami in which Urn public could buy joints 2-7 per cent, cheaper than formerly. The system covers chilled and frozen meat. labor views.

(Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) London, April 5. The Labour and Trades Hill. .Mr (ook regards as a definite declaration ol war on the whole of labour, pdi tical and industrial. It. will, he says, create a greater conflict than last year.

Air riiomas states the Government has uniied labour. Citrine. Secretary <>l T.l'.C. states the entire working class is united to oppose the dangerous attack' and plans arc maturing tor a vigorous campaign throughout the country. Leaders of civil servants and post office employees are especially hittei and declare it may he found that such bitterness has been engineered in (hi country by the violence o! tin l measure that Government may hesitate to enforce it. Though the official Liberal view lias not yet been fully considered, there is a tendency among individual Liberals to regard tiie Hill as not in accord with Air Baldwin's plea for peace in industry. They feel that, such a far-reaching measure should he referred to a Royal Commission representative oi the views of all parties concerned.

LABOUR'S UNEMPLOYMENT HILL. (Received this day at 12.2.1) tun.) LONDON, April •'>. It is a coincidence that simultaneously with ( ahinet's Trade Union Bill the l.ir am rites, Al.essrs 1 (nil. Clvnes, " ebb, l.ansburv and Graham, brought down a private hill for the prevention ol unemployment. It provides for the creation ol a National Employment Development Hoard, composed wholly ol .Ministers, of whom the .Minister of Labour shall he Chairman. Harliameut to vote ten millions annually for the hoard > purposes, expendable in any part of the Empire on works nr services or in the form of grants to Dominion authorities, usable for land transport, and electrical undertakings: also in Britain, where local authorities execute approved works, in defulat of "hidi the Hoard or a Government Department should carry out the work, partly at tin* expense ol local authorities. Ihe hill concludes with a naive provision empowering the Hoard to invest the unexpended balances.

AIUSSOLTNUS NEW BILL. (Received this dav at f)..‘JO 11.111.) ROME, April Afussolini 'has introduced a bit abolishing Ibe t ommissariat: of gen oral emigration and transferring it functions to a special department o the Foreign .Ministry, which will svs teinatieally organise migration. foi which snecial credits are included ii the Budget.

LABOUR OPPOSITION'. LONDON. April A. .ahour’s internal dilfereitces are pusl into the background and all shade opinion from .MacDonald to Cook ar

united in opposition to the Government proposals. The first indication of consolidated opposition was given when the defence committee of the Trades Union Congress asked the Congress to convene si special conference i:i connection therewith. In the meantime the industrialists are eonl'crring with parliamentarians for the purpose of lighting every inch of the way iu the Commons. Mr MacDonald describes the proposals as the most dangerous expr-'s-sion of class war ever known, Mr Clvnes says: “It is twenty times worse than I ever thought could he brought down. It, will crash all recent, efforts to produce a feeling of goodwill in industry, it is a first class gift of the best material to Communists for stirring up trouble in industry.

RO r'.M ANI AN FT AP 1> EX I NfiS. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON. April 5. The mystery of King peril in mid’s illness which Inis been the subject alternatively of gravest reports and" sharp denials, has Imd a curious sequel. Ledge, the "Daily Express’’ special correspondent in Bucharest lias been ordered to leave Roumania within twenty-four hours, otherwise lie will he forcibly escorted to the frontier by gendarmes, which the chief of police in communicating the decision described it as a “very painful process.” Ledge attempted to telegraph a statement to M. Averescu who lias assumed dictatorial powers to rope with possible disturbances in the case ol King Ferdinand’s death, which is admittedly trus>, The Rnval family spent the day at the King's bedside. .MEAT CONTRACT. LONDON. April 5. ft is understood lour Australian tenderers for the Navy meat contract are most hopeful of success.