NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15446, 15 February 1921, Page 6

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

HEADLOCK AGAIN. VANCOUVER, Jan. 29.—A message from Kansas City states that the police had to escort “Strangler” Lewis to his dressing-room through an angry crowd, after he had applied the headloclc to Gustav iSulzo, thereby winning the second fall. LORD ROSSMORE’S DEATH. LONDON, Feb. 3.—The death is an-, nounced of Lord Rossinore, the Irish peer. He was a personal friend of the late King Edward, and the type of the genial sporting peer. His death recalls his reminiscences, published in 1912 under the title of “Things I Can Tell.” Lord Rossmorc was 68 years of age. The publication of “Things I Can Tell” did not cause the stir its title might suggest. Rather it raised a regret that the noble lord bad not printed tho things lie could wot tell which would probably have been more entertaining. “BillDS OF PASSAGE.” PERTH, Feb. 3—At the City Police Court the prosecuting officer of the Taxation Department, in conducting proceedings against a number of shearers for not furnishing returns, said that these men gave more trouble to the Department than anyone. “They aie,” be continued, “birds of passage. They are here, there, and everywhere. It is a fact that only about 5 per cent, of their number has the good grace to furnish returns voluntarily.”

LIFE UNDER ‘ADVANCED’ GOV ERNMENT.

In reading the interim report of Lord Eimmott’s committee on the Russian prison conditions, one is transported back two centuries to what prisons were like in Western countries before. John Howard and Mrs. Fry began their labors. Terrible, however, as those were, they scarcely in their worst recorded cases readied quite the pitch of overcrowding, dirt, verminousness, insanitation, and disease, which appears to bp normal under tlio “advanced” rule of the Russian Communists to-day. Nor did English justice in its darkest days furnish any parallel to the continual stream of brutal executions without trial.

The main conclusion which emerges from this mass of ghastly evidence, is that the rank-and-file of the Russian population are backward, uncivilised, and barbarous to a degree difficult to realise of a white people in' the twentieth century. That such a people, and the corresponding regime which they had thrown up, should be advertised to Western Europe as if they stood in the van of progress, is surely the most grotesque imposture that money ever propagated. j

WAGE DECLINE ANNOUNCED IN GARMENT WORLD.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Wage reductions averaging about 30 per cent, under tbe union settle prevailing, in the men’s clothing industry since November, 1919, were announced to-day by the Clothing Manufacturers’ Association, which made public its new piece-work wage schedule. Under the piece-work rates the announcement stated that the workers will average approximately £3 a week less than they received during the past year. Approximately 65,CC0 clothing workers in New York are affected. Nearly all these either arc “on strike” against the proposed piece-work system or have been “locked out” by the manufacturers. !.

The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, representing the union employees of the clothing industry, and the Manufacturers’ Association /broke off relations several weeks ago. Picket lines have been established about many shops in the garment district here in an effort to persuade workers against adopting tho piece-work system. Under tlio new piece work system, it was stated, tlio clothing workers would ho able to earn from £4 8s to £lO a week.

Figures announced show that tlie new rate still gives the workers increases ranging from 36 to 72 per cent, over the scale prevailing on February 1, 1919. The piece-work raid, it was stated, will be fixed for each factory upon the basis of production of the average experienced operators.