GENERAL CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7563, 6 May 1919, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

' LONDON, May 4." Sir Arthur Boscawen announces that tho Government is appointing a commission, representing employerse and workers, to inquire into agricultural workers' wages. The Limerick strikers are issuing paper money valued at from a khilling to ten shillings, signed.by the Limerick Trades and Labour Council, and insci-ib-ed " General Strike against British militarism." SYDNEY, May 5. Under a Commonwealth proclamation the increased prices of coal and increased wages for miners operate from today. A proclamation repeals the prohibition of iho importation of dogs from New Zealand to the Commonwealth. LONDON, May 4. Mr Sidney Webb, giving evidence befor tho Coal Commission, urged the nationalisation of coal mines. He said tho whole system of profit making was -mow upon its trial. There certainly [would be trouble if any attempt were > made to revert to pre-war conditions. It •was a cold, incontrovertible fact that iit usually cost le?.s to compensate for | accidents' titan to prevent them. This inns one of the faults of the profiteerlino; systom, but should not be eonsiderrcfas an indictment ficainpt the coniown- ! ! '' i i ers ' j AMSTERDAM. May 4. { The Socialist Conference disapproved of the annexation of the German colo. nies, nml urcred that Ireland be granted j independence.