General Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 10 August 1923, Page 3

General Cables

TRANjSPORT WORKERS' UNION. ItfS animal ■-London, August S. (3 jiKievcaunual report of the Transport Geiieral^VorkeKa'» Union, states that, the WjpbersMp: exceeds three hundred 1 thousand and contributions total £345,000. The ' -union financed seven members of and by supporting political expenditu e ithad obtained important • industrial improvements. The union j had pursued a policy of negotiation and had not encouraged -headlong strikes. (IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. . London; August 8. Tlve British-EmpireProducers.' OrganUation has forwarded a memornudum to-'the Government urging the importance of adequate representation of the. non self-governing parts of the Empire at the Imperial .Conference. The chairman states the organisation is strongly of opinion that the future of industry is indissolubly bound up in the successful development of the whole Empire. MR RAMSAY MACDONALD. London, August 8. Constantinople Socialists are preparing a great reception for Mir .Ramsay ;MacDonald (Leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party), who will arrive on August 24=, and will .later visit ,Kemal at Angora. Mr Ramsay MacDonald is annoyed at the statements regarding his visit to Turkey.. Tip says the journey is purely a holiday and he declines to participate in political demonstrations or receptions and will alter lm arrangements if possible.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. • London, August 8. At an inquest at the Du.ham gaol after an execution the coroner-' declared that capital punishment was no deterrent to crime. He favoured flogging and penal servitude in preference to the barbarous system of executions. What a murde.er really dreaded was not deafth, but pain. A MAD SCULPTOR. , London, August 8. An eccentric old * man, a clever monumental sculptor, who had lived alone for twenty years, became sudr denly ill in a London suburb and had to call in.a doctor, who ordered his removal to the hospital. The sculptor, objecting to this, ban icaded himself in a room, and when the police forced an entrance they found the man lying naked" and unconscious before his unfinished statue . of Christ. y ~. . / AN AERIAL AMBULANCE. London, August 8. A woman, who was slouvlv dying from ,an ■ incurable disease in London, conceived the desire to die in her own housje in Brussels. ;&he was therefore conveyed thither in *.a specially-fitted aerial ambulance, accompanied by a doctor arid nurse. < IMPORTS FROM GERMANY. i London, August 8. , The Board of Trade journal publishes a table showing that the value -of tßritlsh. Imports ;from Germany in the first halt of 1923 totalled £17,000,000, while the exports of British produce and -, manufactures to Geraiany-totalled £20,750,000, and re-exports of foreign and colonial products to Germany £10,250,000. .. The figures indicate an increasing trade, despite the political problems. The corresponding figures for the whole of 1922 were: Imports ' £26,000,00.0, exports .£32,000,000, and re-exports Britain's chief imports from Ger- | many are iron and steel manufactures, paper, cardboard, chemicals, toys and games. The chief exports to Germany are coal, coke, cotton, woollen and worsted yarns, and the chief re-exports are raw wool, furs and skins.