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Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 31, 1 August 1923, Page 5

HERE AND THERE

DmBEITD-COirGEB'-S'' ' PARADISE. All I ask is lots of work, And more work to renew it, Merely plenty to be done— And someone else to do it. •» •' « ■» af A Point to Note.—"God Save the King" was not played .either tit the - beginning or the end of the opera, when the King and Queen went to hear Melba sing on Friday. The omission was, we _ understand, at the request of the King himself. Will managers of theatres and picture houses note? —'London "Daily Herald," 4/6/23. And Bill Massey and others of his ilk. «=•**«<*< . In 1913 Britain imported from Russia 78,500,000 lbs of- butter, 5,000,000 cwts. of wheat, 6,000,000 cwts. of barley, and 2,750,000 cwts of oats. In a recent speech Jim Larkin said if he stood at the coming general elections for the Dail he would stand as a Republican. The Communists will not like that. *•- •■ •*_ #•«■*-*- On page 263 of Hansard, June 26, 1923, Mr. Massey is reported to have said the following: "There will be no electoral Bill this session." Yet on July 19 —less than a month later — we have the Prime Minister declaring in Parliament that he will introduce an electoral Bill. What is the little game? Is the political dice-box to be tampered with to the detriment of the Labour Party? Time will prove. ***-, ■ c o « 9 "In the bazaars of the East the phrase 'mandate' is now employed as a term of opprobrium when the stress j of controversy invites the application of a particularly offensive and descriptive -epithet to the manners and character of an antagonist. It is an [nsmt calculated immediately to conclude mere wordy warfare in favour of sterner measures." —Oswald- Mosley, M.P., in "Foreign Affairs." ®- a # • News came to hand from TJ.S.A. recently of the death of Mr. John McParland, president of the International Typographical Union of America. Mr. McParland was a native of Bal!arat, and many years ago went to UjS.A„ following his trade as a printer. He was president right through the 44-hour fight, which has terminated in the union's favour, over 90 per cent, working under the new -.conditions. Later he went back to Victoria, and for some time as a linotype operator on on« el the Melbourne dailies. He was a member of the executive and Board of Management of the Victorian Typographical Society.—-"Labour Call," 21/6/23. Upton Sinclair, the Socialist author, won the first round of his case when charged with disturbing the peace by reading the United States Constitution to an open-air mass meeting of Socialists and police. The Judge ruled on Wednesday that he had no jurisdiction to hear the case. —.Cable from Los Angeles to Australian press. Funny, isn't it, that no cables came to the N.Z. press about this matter? «*>•**** Mr. Brownlie, president of the Amalgamated.. Engineering Union, said at a conference in London on June 4 that the effect of the French! occupation of the Ruhr has been to cause the price of coal and coke to rise, and that of steel to.follow. The result of this has been a rise in the cost of ships and engineering products to prices that held off those buyers who had not already been frighjtened off by the uncertainty of the international situation. In a statement issued from the yearly meeting of the Society of Friends in London, an appeal is made to rulers and peoples to deal with the "present deplorable state of Europe" by calling a new type of conference! to revise the Versailles Treaty, in which the delegates will confe* as equals, free from the temper of domination. * # # * When introducing the Boy Scouts' Association Bill into the Federal Parliament, Mr. Bruce remarked that "the organisation was not in any way a military one." Yet one of the measures of disarmament imposed on Germany is that she must not be permitted to have a Boy Scouts' organisation ! —"Westralian Worker." "The Belgian railway, telegraph and postal workers are going back to work on terms which show a distinct success, when one* recalls that the national strike was a retort to victimisation by the Government. . . . The Government has promised consideration for the claims for increased wages, and has agreed that all workers who have been dismissed or suspended during the course of the strike, shall be fully reinstated." — News par from Brussels, 1/6/23, in ■British £<al>pur mmh