DOCKERS' STRIKE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25345, 29 October 1945, Page 5

DOCKERS' STRIKE

SOME MEN RETURN FOOD MINISTRY WORRIED (Reed, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 27 The Transport and General Workers' Union states that the Bristol and Avonmouth dockers have agreed on an immediate resumption of work and appealed to the men at other ports to follow suit without delay. The Food Ministry has expressed grave concern at the rations situation resulting from the strike. It says that tidier dockers are enabling the present fiuotas to be maintained, nut the slow tarn round of ships is worrying the Government. WORLD AGRICULTURE CONFERENCE AT OTTAWA (Reed. 8.10 p.m.) OTTAWA, Oct. 27 At the plenary session of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation Sir John Boyd Orr, Professor of Agriculture at Aberdeen University, was unanimously elected director-gen-eral until December 31, 1947. The standard executive committee, which was unanimously elected, consists of the following representatives: New Zealand,, Haiti, Canada, Britain and Mexico, for a one-year term; India, Norway, Irak, France and Poland, for two years; Brazil, China, America, South Africa and Belgium, for three years. It was announced that Russia had decided not to become a full member for the present. The Canadian Press Association says a strong Soviet delegation attended throughout and played an important part in committee discussions, but it took no definite status. CZECH NATIONALISATION ALL LARGE INDUSTRIES LONDON, Oct. 07 Czechoslovakia commenced a great experiment in State ownership when the President, J)r Bones, signed four decrees which practically eliminate the system of shareholders, says the Associated Press correspondent at Prague. The Czechs term this reform, which converts millions of workers into State employees, as nationalisation, avoiding the label of socialisation, ihe correspondent adds. Precisely what will happen to millions of pounds of foreign investments is not clear, but Government spokesmen insist that foreign investors will be treated with the utmost fairness. Heavy industries and large businesses become State property, while those employing under 500 workers will remain jn private bands. Companies will retain their individual structures, only stockholders disappearing. Professions co-operative concerns, farms and a large number of shops and factories are not affected. ANTI-COMMUNTST SURGE ATTACKS IN SOUTH ITALY (Reed 0.30 p.m.) ROME, Oct. 27 Bands of Italian war veterans and repatriates have attacked the Communist headquarters in Bari, on the Adriatic coast. The attackers staged demonstrations for the Monarchy. Similar disturbances are reported in Noicattaro and Bitetto, near Bari.