CONDENSED CABLES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10940, 15 May 1926, Page 4

CONDENSED CABLES.

NEWS FROM FAR AND NEAR. Bij<' Strike lEnds. The big strike, the worst disturbance according to "The Times" England has known within- her own borders since the terrible years of the Great Rebellion, is over. The Trades Union Congress leaders sat far into the morning discussing a basis for the resumption of peace negotiations, and at the end of their deliberations retired for a few hours' sleep, preparatory to a meeting with Cabinet in the morning. The announcement is the result of this morning's meeting of the strike leaders with the country's leaders. Returning to Work. Many printers in the provinces are resuming, and several factories are reopening owing to the Government transport facilities. The entire supervisory and clerical staffs of the Marine Department and the Midland Railway at Holyhead, resumed. Stevedores in London are asking to be all allowed to resume, but have been told that they must wait until the general strike is- cancelled. Practically the whole of the .students of Oxford and Cambridge are engaged in volunteer work, many being stationed in London as specials, equipped with steel helmets and truncheons. At Portsmouth a crowd vainly endeavoured for three hours to bring out workers at the tramway depot, from which a full service is operating. The Plymouth tramwaymen have resumed- and some have enrolled as specials. On the other hand, the plumbers, painters and timber workers have joined the striker*. Eight hundred strikers at the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield have resumed work. It is officially announced that scores of Thames wharves have opened for traffic. The whole of the employees of a big fidur mill in the Medway seceded from the Union, owing to. the possibility of their being called out, and Deptford and Greenwich flourmillers report that 90 per cent, of the employees have resumed work. Clyde sailings have been resumed. Bus and tram services in Edinburgh are practically normal, and numbers of old em-' ployees have returned to work.

Strike Order Ignored. ( Belfast dockers ignored the order to strike. When Liverpool and Fleetwood steamers arrived they unleaded all the foodstuffs, which -.was the main cargo. .Rotterdam food shipments to England are being resumed-as the result of confirmation of the news from the British Government that the vessels can be discharged.

American .Assistance ,to Strikers. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, who are in session at Montreal, have voted 150,000 dollars for the British strikers. Russian (Money, i The General Council of the Soviet Trade Unions announces that in consequence of the British Trades Union Congress's refusal to accept the proffered 2,250,000 roubles, the money will be returned to the subscribing Russian trade unions, but collections will be continued and deposited to the credit of special relief funds /for British miners, and placed at the disposal of the Trade.-; Union Council or Miners' Federation. The Soviet Council adds that a special agreement for a united front by British and Soviet trade unions has been strengthened by the creation of an Anglo-Soviet Unity Committee. Strike Settlement, j The strike settlement is based on the following memorandum: —The renew-al of the subsidy for a reasonable period; the creation of a Mining Wages Board; no revision of previous wages unless assured that the Coal Commission's plans for reorganisation can be effectively adopted. The Trades Union Council has accepted. Mr' Baldwin, in a dignified speech in the House of Commons, said: "It is a victory for coinmon-sense. We must not look backwards, but forward, and work in a spirit of co-operation, and leave all malice and vindictiveness behind." Mr Ramsay Macdonald paid a tribute to the large spirit of Mr Baldwin's statement, which he said Oppositionists would do nothing to break. It is officially stated that the miners will not resume work pending the delegates' conference on Friday. 15ij>' Cricket. The weather was inclined to be showery for the match against Hampshire. The attendance was 4000. Australia made a total of 3G4 for nine wickets. Gregory con-

tributed 128 not out, and Taylor 73. Gregory opened in lively manner, with three fours off Newman, and continued to score by boundaries, reaching 50 in 38 minutes. He was brilliant. He drove Boyes' in one over for 2,4, G and 1. Then he did the same with Gross, for 4, 6 and 3 more fours, reaching the century with a six in 75 minutes. Then he followed up with a third six off Boyes.