GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16823, 23 August 1920, Page 8

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By Telegj-aph—Press Assn.—Copyright, (Received August 23, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 21. Owing to electricians in a Midland shop refusing to work with a foreman w7io was not a member pf the Electrical Trade Union, the Employers’ Federation, on behalf of firms all over the country, has decided that members of that union shall not be employed after the expiration or a week’s notice. Tho embargo will not apply to public undertakings. rff

The German casualties at Kattowitz were 20 killed and 70 severely wounded. The Drench had nine killed.' The inter* Allied Commission has proclaimed a state of siege, and the town is quietening. The oMexican Finance Minister in a speech, assured the establishment of a new era in Mexico. All foreign investments, especially petroleum interests, will be safeguarded, and the country's political, economic, and education system will bo entirely reformed. . Representatives of all the shipping lines operating from Japanese ports, who have been holding a conference at Yokohama, decided that the standard freight rate for Pacific Ocean traffic shall be 20 per cent, higher than at present. It is stated that coal from the Transvaal mines, via Delagoa, arriving at English ports,.is cheaper than coal delivered from British coalfields to local ports. One shipment sold at £2 a ton less than "the export price of British coal. ! French newspapers sharply criticise the action of Mr. Tower, British High Commissioner at Dautzig, in refusing to ' permit the landing of French munitions for the Poles. The British Commissioner at transCaucasia reports that the Armenians • have signed' a. treaty with the Bolsheviks including permission for a free passage of Red troops through Armenia. The Mexican Foreign Office has cancelled the Spanish Consul’s exequatur, owing to his alleged refusal to visa passports of Mexicans going to Spain. It is thought likely the Spanish Minister’s passports will also be served shortly. The United States Department of Labour announced.that more than 6000 immigrants are. arriving at New York daily, and approximately 700,000 arrived in. the United States for the year ending June 30. Foreign steamship companies have reported to the immigration officials that all available accommodation for the year in advance has been booked by prospective immigrants. Q, _ . Mr. J. B. Clyucs, in his presidential address to the General Workers’ Federation,'at Oxford, said Labour would no longer tolerate the old methods of foreign diplomacy, and was 'justified in. using its whole strength in the' interests of peace. If the Government could-,, not keep the country out of war, Labour would do so.