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SITTING ON TOP OF

WORLD.

New Vogue in Industria]| Life of Japan.

CHIMNEY' SITTERS.

TRIBUTE TO P.O. Echo of the Poseidon Disaster.

COOLNESS AND COURAGE.

London, Yesterday..

In the House of Commons to- day, Mr. A. V. Alexander read an Admiralty report regarding the sinking of the submarine Posel

don.

Tokyo, June 14. One of the latest of the differ- ent customs that modern times have brought into Japanese indus-

He said the coolness and cour- trial life is the vogue of the chim- ney sitters for the purpose of age of the men accorded with the fighting out an industrial dispute.highest traditions of the service.

He specially tributed Petty Off- A pastime which, in Amarica, was

a purely individualist exploit of cer Willis, whose conduct was do- youngsters after endurance reserving of the highest praise; and the Admiralty cords, or a curious exercise in announced that self-expression, has become here were considering suitable recogni-

tion.-Reuter. potent weapon with which to fight-

demonstration capitalists, a

of class-conscious ethics and a means whereby to draw the attention of the public, of the world perhaps, to the struggle of the workers and to their solidarity.

CREDIT IN INDIA.

Plea for Stabilisation of Silver.

CONFERENCE URGED.

London, Yesterday. In the House of Commons, Mr. S. S. Hammersley (Conservative of

The first time this unprecedent- ed method of seeking to settle a strike was tried out, it proved to be completely successful. The dis- pute, however, was not terminated out of any consideration for the man at the top of the smokestack, Stockport).asked whether in view but was due to other and greater of the fact that "credit in India reasons. The Emperor was re- would be assured by stabilising

south: turning from the

His silver at a sufficiently high price," Majesty's train was to pass, with- Mr. Philip Snowden would call an In close distance of the chimney international conference for that on which this man was perched purpose. and the man would be looking down on the sacrosanct presence of His Majesty. It could not be permitted: so this novel picket-for what else is it comparable to twon, and became a nine days' hero.

Modified Hunger.

Since then, there have been other chimney sitters. One of them stuck

FIRE AT WATERLOO STATION.

A Pall of Smoke Over the Road.

ALL TRAFFIC STOPPED.

Alarm was caused at Waterloo

1.

Station, London, by the discovery of a fire in the passageway which connects the Waterloo Junction of

Waterloo Station. the old South-Eastern Railway with

Volumes of smoke poured from the wooden flooring of the passage which runs in front of Waterloo near the entrance on the roadway Station booking-hall.

All traffic between the two stations was at once stopped.

The Waterloo Station fire brigade quickly got to work. They fixed a hose to a hydrant on the road near the booking-hal and played on the flames.

Metropolitan fire brigades at- tacked the fire from Waterloo Road. The passage-way leads to a bridge over this road.

Flooring planke were torn up and water poured downwards, Waterloo Road, flooding into where a great crowd of people had being kept assembled and were back by police.

Dense volumes of smoke poured from the fire, and hung over the Waterloo Road.

After half-an-hour the fire was put out...

Mr. Snowden, while declining to commit himself to agreement with

All danger of a collapse of the Mr. Hammersley's premise, remind-

two stations was od him that he had already ex-bridge carrying the connecting way pressed the opinion that the Bri- between the

averted. tish Government was not in a

Traffic was not interrupted at all position to take the Initiative, but would send a representative on either the south-eastern section such conference were contemplator on the other sections of the

Southern Railway.

it out for 12 days, while the other ed-Reuter. workers involved in this parti-

cular quarrel declared a hunger worker made haste to mount the strike: .When some three-score factory's one and only smoke-stack. dropped from sheer exhaustion, the others agreed to take some nutri- ment and the Japanese genius for compromise modified the hunger strike into one where the workers might have two bowle of steaming bean soup a day.

This induced the, hope that per- haps the chimney sitter might be amenable to reason. A message, tled to the end of a cleft stick, was sent up to his dizzy perch, inviting him to come and join the manage ment and his fellow workers at a round table parley.

"Nothing doing!" he shouted. "What do you take me for--a dirty rat?"

And he stuck on, heedless of the drenching rains that usher in Sum mer in Japan. With the exception of the curious-minded, who would

The management, however, had taken time by the forelock and had already posted twa armed guards on the chimney. When the would-be worker Stylites, got to the top, he was dragged up, given a thrust with

aword, trussed like a branded bull and lowered to the ground by means of a repe. He is now in the hospital in none-too-good a condition.

Heports continue to accumulate of considerable economie dlatress in the remote country districts where the peasants are said to be openly condemning the existing system on which society here is founded. Once a quiet and even an obliging ser- vant, meek and subservient to au- thority, the peasant, now enfran- chised and equal, is no longer the resigned lump of putty he used to be. This is causing the authorities

TEXTILE STRIKE.

Men Slowly Drifting Back to Work.

2,800 STILL OUT.

Roubaix, Yesterday, The textile strikers are only slowly drifting back to work; 18.500 are now working but 28,500 are still out--Reuter.

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[It was stated on July 4 that the seven-week textile strike has been settled and operatives are! resuming work on Monday. A message of May 20 statedIt is now computed that nine-tenths as soon go to see a dead cat as a no end of worry, and a sharp watch of the staffs of the Roubaix, and neighbouring chimney altter-life in Japan is le being kept out for demagogues Tourcoing, terribly monotonous and boring and fire-brands who may seek to mills are idle. Conditions: are weavers at and, perhaps, the Press, it is very play on the feelings of the rural peaceful. The problematical If the factory manage regions where martyred patience, Maclas, in the Loire district, ment really

whoops strangely co-exists with elemental have also struck] two gave whether the man died on his perch passion. or not. To threats by proletarian Industrial Depression. lawyers that, if the man died, the company would be sued for culpable marder, the company lawyer ex- plained that if he died, it would be suicide. No more; no lesa.

Holl of Fame.

The Industrial depression has greatly increased the number of workers and disputes between owners of factories; these disputes have even spread to domestic ser- vanta, waitresses and taxi drivers, But the man won out; and his and a very undesirable tendency colleagues were soon able to take noted by the Home Ministry is the more solid and varied nourishment challenging attitude Invariably ad than billious bean soup, Again, It sumed by the workers was due to His Majesty, The Ruler Many of the disputes were over was to return from Hayama, sea-the question of decreased wages and side resort where the Emperor were very bitter, the workers spends the Winter. Again, It was sorting to "unfair and unreasonable impossible to permit a mere subject mathods to quote the authorities to look down on his sacred person. In their efforts to bring the So the chimney sitter won, and an- capitalists to terms. other worker wrote him name on the The labour situation worries the Roll of Fame of Japanese Labour.authorities greatly and the only But all chimney altters have not satisfactory indication is said to be been as fortunate. Last week, a that the tendency to have neutral strike broke out in one of Tokyo's parties arbitrate-la on the increase. semi-industrialised aubourbe and a N, G. Daily News.

RUBBER GROWERS.

Reorganisation Plan Completed.

DUTCH ENTERPRISE.

The Hague, Yesterday, The International Association of Rubber Growers, Dutch East Indies, is shortly forming a re- organisation committee. The President will be Professor Van Iterson, and the members, M. Loudin, and M. Burger, of Am- sterdam, Baron van Lijnden, van Den Bosch, Putman, Cramer, Koch, and Kasteleyn, of The Hague Rent

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