" STOP PRESS” NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16523, 6 September 1921, Page 10

" STOP PRESS” NEWS.

(Reserved for I*rfce neTcw received after the no per gore' to prees.) I LATE CABLES, LONDON, September 6. The atmosphere of the Trades’ Union' - Congress at Cardiff is very different .from that of recent years, There are-' tempt to stampede British trade up ion ism into a. revolutionary "frolic.:. Eight hundred delegates, represtating--6,500,000 trade unionists, seem to ui U - - - to put the seal upon the construction '! Tliere was a lively episode in the late afternoon, when a deputation <•:' unemployed addressed the Congress, ' and occasioned considerable uproar. ' The deputation demanded that Cabinet should be invited immediately to settle the unemployed problem. If work could not be given to unemployed, they, demanded full maintenance, which, meant the same -amount as they earned if they Were working, even if it was 40s weekly above the existing allowances. The discussion ended by Congress deciding to take up a collection on behalf of the unemployed. Congress will debate the unemployment question? on Thursday. EIRE ALARM .FROM WO CIS TON. The; City Fire Brigade received a call frdhi Chichester Street, near Radley, Woolston, this afternoon and made, a fast journey to the spot. It was found that some children had been playing 2* with the alarm box, and had inadver- jVj i fceutly caused tho brigade to bo sum- j [ f MR MeCULLOIb ;II RF.SR I NS. Mr J. A. McCullough has resigned from the Arbitration Court, on which he has represented the workers for f