WORKERS AT WEMBLEY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16406, 12 April 1924, Page 11

WORKERS AT WEMBLEY.

LIFT TDK EMBARGO ON OVERTIME, (Flee. Tel. CopyrighL—United Press Assu.) (Sydney Sun Cables.) (Received April 12, 2.20 p.m.) LONDON, April 11. Thousands of drenched Wembley workers massed at the stadium, and decider! to raise the embargo on overtime. They cheeied Mr. Thomas' appeal to show I lie world what British workmen were able lo accomplish under deplorable conditions. The workers shouted : "We will finish it. by April 23id." (Router's Telesrrain.) LONDON, April 11. Mr. •). H. Thomas, addressing the workers at Wembley, thanked them on behalf of the Cabinet and the country for the decision to remove the embargo on overtime. He said the recent strike had caused the Government anxiety, because it had undoubtedly retarded the progress ol the Exhibition. Therefore be look the responsibility for asking ihe trade union officials to relax the overtime rule as regards the Exhibition, which bad got to be a success if only beeauso it meant much to the British working class. SO THIS IS LONDON! NEGROES SEE METROPOLIS.

WONDERFUL VILLAOr

l.c-XnoN, March 31.—'-London wonderful village. Black men couldiio'l build it." says the spokesmen of the "0 West Africans, including six women, who will live in a native village, consisting of mud houses surrounded by a mud' wall, at Wembley.

The negroes spent most of the tirst day at the Zoo. fascinated by the bears, giraffes, lions and monkeys. The men wore wollen helmets and long grey ulsters, and the women grey cardigans and gaily-colored turbans .and petticoats.

Baa, a daughter of the Queen Mother of Ashanti, is the "leading lady." Her marriage is childless, and she carries in her arms everywhere an ebony doll, draped: with beads, as a charm to bring motherhood. Miss Tay. another member of the party, wears high-heeled shoes, powders her face, and 1 boasts that she has always worn European clothes. She will cool; for her father, who will show Wembley visiters the native method of weaving-.