1 APRIL 1925
Students of Paris University demonstrated against the appointment of Professor Georges Scelle to the Chair of Law, preventing the Professor from lecturing, and eventually coming into conflict with the police. Twenty policemen were injured and 36 students arrested.
Polling takes place in the Northern Ireland General Election on Friday. The situation is reviewed by a special correspondent.
Mr Joseph Devlin, who is standing as a Nationalist candidate for one of the Belfast divisions in the Ulster election, referred to the necessity for dealing with social problems. He declared that he would do what lay in his power to bring North and South closer together. Force was no remedy.
Mr Wheatley, speaking in Glasgow, referred to the “approaching industrial crisis,” and said he thought the Labour movement was not in a fit state to fight or negotiate successfully. He appealed for co-operation between the ILP. and the Trade Unions.
Ten thousand employees of Co-operative Societies in North-West England have been locked out because of inability to reach an agreement upon a wage question.
Socialist proposals for the devolution of Parliamentary work on Departmental Committees are advanced in two reports to be submitted to the conference of the Independent Labour Party. The first report advocates Responsible Committees, but the second report insists on the retention of the Cabinet’s collective responsibility, and argues for Advisory Committees only.
Among the subjects discussed at the Conference of the University Labour Federation, held at Oxford, were the nationalisation of banking, the currency question, and taxation.