INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Maoriland Worker, Volume 11, Issue 449, 15 October 1919, Page 3

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Wives Support Police Strike

At a Birmingham demonstration dilring tho recent police strike, wives of the strikers paraded the streets carrying sandwich-board posters ou which were such mottoes as "Withdraw ±hv> Police Bill," "Trade Unionism must not be crushed," "W© Mjives support our men." "The Police are out for Liberty," "Trade Umionists must Support Police." A thousand organised workers supported tho police a|, .a*, open air meet.ing in fio wrao oily, and announced tho decision oi' th 0 Birmingham Trades and Labor Council to recommend all trade unions to dour,. tools "unless tho police hill were withdrawn and lhe dismissed police -inkers re:j!...t;:t''■'. ni;.■;■■•: l.a;:<jr congress p; (; I <;t :i"." ■•■ v.; \ i ( , i !;e 11 -;. -] r L;i'..■.■!• Pal'U .'Mill A r ::■.!.> !';>:..,;, ;:„;i»l'i ~, ;;,,-• 'Im .:, ; ili .... :■.■:,.; v.- "_ nf Au_u.-(, '..■;:-• dem-'it-J 1 1-,,, licii!,;, ot tlie ilrilish government, ;,i denying n, passport to James Larkiu, general secretary of -fclift Irish Transport Workers, now exiled iv America. Tii- ccrgross further passed a v_sciution, by 131 votes to 50, according iucrcase'd powers lo the National Executive, t« ensur,- joint action iv industrial and political in utters. Mr. O'Lehatic (Drapers' Assistants), wlio proposed (he motion, suid it was proposed to amalgamate unions with the ultimate object ot having a single) atlwi'elusive Irish Workers" Union, one authority to be responsible} for financing and controlling ail the larger movements. Subject, to this uutaru'ity tho worker.-, -would be organised into industrial s-cctions; self-governing t-o far as the affairs of their own industries wcio ccucern.ed. UNDERGROUND PROPAGANDA That the British ospiouago act, popularly known as "D.0.1.A." (Defence of Realm Act) is having th<. inevitable result of driving propaganda underground, is illustrated by the fact that I a revolutionary pamphlet bearing the imprint, "The New Press, Princess Street Udiuborough,"" is being distributed i_t such vast quantities in. the working class districts of Nottingham that an interpellation was recently made concerning it in tho House of Commons, lines"gation made by the secret service brought no further evidence thaw t'vat i'li! address is v bogus "oe, aud that the p.smphlot declares there ii no more use for parliament ,-iih! that the people must prepar_ for a revolution. Ag usual, the charge, is made that Russian Bolshevik money is behiud th*s '.' scheme. Meanwhile th© underground pamphlet circulates merrily (Manchester Guardian, August 8). SOVIETS SUPPRESS PROSTITUTION Though tho Bcla Kun government has been overthrown with the aid of tho Entente, tho following unews itcni, I delayed in tho mails, is still of interest: Budapest, July 7.—Ones e>f the happi- ! est results of the dictatorship of i.\\<c ! proletariat iv Hungary i:, the .rapid ,; decrease in tho .number of pro.ilitul.es. .'A. largo part of these unhappy creal ni'o.j who had beei;> driven by th<. capit alii i_tic, regiie.ip, to sell ,their botli'es in :i order to earn their living, have aband- ', cried this miserable means of liveli- , hood, have looked for aud found work. The number of thes.'e former victims : of capitalism who have just freed thems solves, is estimated to bo 40 per cent. ;of tho total number cf prostitutes officially registered. The soviet authori- | ties apply their efforts towards tho I wiping out of clandestine prostitution. ■ '('tie. girls who abandon tbr'm selves to j this nieu'cis of livelihood will bo placed I under supervision and forcetl to. work i honourably.