LATE CABLE NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 3229, 7 June 1924, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

MORE LABOUR DISPUTES.

ELECTRICIANS COME OUT.

DEMANDS BY DRIVERS.

(By Cable—Press Association). LONDON, June 5.

The shopmen and electricians on the London underground railways and the Great Western Railway system, decided to strike at midnight on the question of wages and working conditions. The strike is disavowed by the National Union of Railwayman, whose members will remain at work to prevent a general stoppage.

The situation is complicated, however, by the action of the locomotive society in sending a strong letter to the railway companies giving a time limit for the satisfaction of a number of demands in connection with anomalies arising out of the last strike settlement. They threaten drastic action if their demands are not conceded. . The authorities had not received information regarding the operation of the threatened strike at midnight. The chief power station was stilt working at 4 o’clock this morning. The extent of the strike will not be known until later. A partial dislocation of the underground railway services is expected. FRENCH PREMIERSHIP. M. HERRIOT DECLINES. STATES HIS PROGRAMME., (By Cable—Press Association). PARIS, June 5. M. Harriot has declined the Premiership because M. Millerand, the President, declines to resign. There are various forecasts of the eourse of subsequent events following M. Millerand’s refusal to resign, but these are purely speculative. M. Herriot, who was a guest at. a luncheon given by English, and American journalists on Wednesday, said:— “My programme, summed up, is—order, progress, and stability. I will try to give peace to Europe and the world. I shall take Mr Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Britain, as my model, for he is sincere, straightforward, and an enemy of the devious paths of diplomacy.” PRICES AT WEMBLEY. DISCUSSED IN PARLIAMENT. (By Telegraph —Press Association) LONDON, June 5. Attention having been directed to the high prices at. Wombley restaurants, where the. Lyons Company make the exclusive charges of 7/6 for tea and 25/ for dinner, Mr W. Lunn (Overseas Trade Department) replied that the Exhibition authorities considered the scope of Wembley for restaurant comparable with the best West End establishments. He explained that thecharge includes dancing. JAPAN AND AMERICA. A STRONG PROTEST. MONSTER DEMONSTRATION. (By Cable—Press Association). TOKYO, June 5. A monster meeting of : protest held to-day, including representatives of every official party in the Lower House, adopted to maintain the Japanese position against America’s antiJapanese Immigration Bill. The demonstration was marked by strong feeling. The promoters intend to organise campaign throughout the nation with a view to impressing on the people the gravity of the situation. LONDON LIBEL CASE. ’ * EXPENSIVE LITIGATION. (By Cable —Press Association). LONDON, June 5. In the case in which Sir Michael O’Dwyer (formerly Lieutenant-Gover-nor of the Punjaub) sued Sir C. S. Nair for libel in respect to allegations in the latter’s work “Gandhi and Anarchy,” Mr Justice McCardie, summing up, expressed the view that Sir Michael O’Dwyer, under gravo and exceptional circumstances, had acted rightly. “In my opinion,” said liis Honor, “he was wrongly punished by the Secretary of India.”

Sir Michael was awarded £SOO damages. The case lasted 26 days, and the' costs are estimated at £30,000.